[TheForge] Price of Copper

[Bruce Freeman]

Well, the answer is REAL simple, then.  Use the power line protection system.  Those bozos fry themselve on powerlines they try to steel.  Just apply some high voltage to your sculptures and they'll never be stolen!!
Bruce
NJ

>>> jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com 4/25/2007 11:38 AM >>>
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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