[TheForge] copper goo or paste

[Andy Vida]

Gladish Family wrote:
> 
> > Possible alternate strategy: rather than try to make them as
> > inconspicuous as possible, make them rather conspicuous, but
> > artful.  I think you may be better pleased in the long run.
> 
> I hear ya knockin, Andy, that was the way I wanted to approach it. When we
> went to get the copper, my long-gone Scotch grandma took over my body- 2x3
> sheets were $1.fiftysomething a pound and the full sheet (which would still
> have needed one seam) was $4.seventysomething, so I got enough cutoffs to do
> the whole kitchen and then some for what the first sheet would have cost.
> And then I got home and the customer says, "I don't want to look at seams.
> Make 'em disappear." This lady is both easy and hard to work for, because
> she knows what she wants. She won't consider seams of any kind and I haven't
> been able to sell the idea.
> Thus the goo.
> I'm pretty happy with the size of the seams (barely visible) but she'd like
> them to disappear if possible.

	Well, do you know anyone with TIG?  Just weld the suckers together
	and there will be minimally visible weld lines... possibly not
	even that is you use scrap sheet as filler.