[TheForge] Re: Copper bowls

[Jim Pigott]

Thanks Mike,

My hope is to find someone to deliver a finished bowl, if I have to do it
myself maybe 4 burners will do.

:)

Jim

 

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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 2:50 PM
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> You can anneal with a propane weed burner.

 

Yes, that's what I've done in the past.  Works fine for, oh, say, an

6" disk of 16 ga. or smaller.  To make a 10" pan  (say), you need a

14" or 15" disk.  For a shallow 36" diameter bowl, somewhere around

36" disk.  I found getting the bigger disks hot enough to anneal was

slow and tedious.  Before I do another one, I'll try to think up a

trick -- ad hoc furnace, batt tent, something -- to make it easier.

 

- Mike

 

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