[TheForge] Price of Copper

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Jerry,
> No expert, I.  
> I was thinking of plating AFTER making the piece.  So you'd change over to the appropriate means for steel, then get the whole thing plated.  Depends a lot on what you're doing - which I have no idea.  You can do plating yourself on a small scale, but I take it you're not working small scale.
> I doubt you could forge copper clad steel.  I have heard that "gold filled" "base metals" are used for glasses frames, and that these materials are worked - drawn, I think - as a unit.
> Bruce
> NJ
The problem is the thieves are dumbasses and can't tell the difference 
between plating and solid.  They have stolen plaster with a faux verdi 
gras finish. I am assuming that the majority of the cost in Jerry's 
pieces is labor not materials, so not a lot of protection there.  

Charles