[TheForge] looking for"real" bronze

[Ries Niemi]

There are a couple of hundred different alloys called "bronze". Making it a pretty meaningless term.
You need to figure out what alloy you want.
Probably at least two dozen common ones have no zinc. 
For instance, Silicon Bronze has nothing in it but copper, and a tiny trace of silicon.
Its available in sheet pretty easily- around here, I buy from Alaskan Copper, 

Alaskan Copper

but there are several other suppliers that stock a lot of it- Farmers, and Atlas, for example.
Farmer's Copper & Industrial Supply
Atlas Metals

but since I dont know what you want to do with it, I have no idea if silly bronze will work for you. 
Forging?
Raising?
Matching some color? (silly bronze is pretty dark reddish brown- its the zinc and the lead that make alloys that pretty yellow color)


McMaster Carr stocks small pieces of a bunch of different alloys of copper- and, really, thats all "bronze" is- a copper alloy. 
The smaller size pieces you want, the more you pay per pound, of course, and all copper alloys are pretty expensive. 

ries




On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Dan Scheid wrote:

> Anyone have information on a retailer that sell small quantities of "real"
> bronze (No zinc) looking for sheet at about 24g  just a couple of square
> feet. Everywhere I web search that I find with small sheets has zinc.
> Thanks Dan Scheid

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