[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 48, Issue 48

[lee robbins]

Justin FIsher wrote:
My wife and I are planning on making a zinc countertop
for our kitchen 
when we remodel.  Being a metalsmith she wanted
something metal, but 
stainless is too "cold", so that marketing pitch has
appeal to her!  
We're still discussing copper versus zinc, but I guess
zinc has 
anti-bacterial properties that are actually good for a
kitchen counter.


Bactericidal properties aside, beautiful patinas
aside, having engraved the softness of copper and
zinc, won't errant knives nick the surface with time,
and steel pots scratch both over time especially with
kids ? Have you considered the warmth of bamboo? i
think of resistance to breaking glass which rules out
concrete and soapstone for me.

By the way copper is pretty bactericidal too
regardless of the properties ascribed to zinc in cold
commercials.  

Lee 


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