[TheForge] Price of Copper

[Jerry Smith]

Charles,

One of my pieces of work, a combination of casting
hammer forming and some welding (not braising) TIG
Fusing, I spend 12 weeks working on that projects,
that is working every day, 8 hours a day. Labor is my
big factor. 

Jerry

--- xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:

> 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
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