Big sheet of copper

[Eterry]

A friend the other night said he had a sheet of brass to give me. It was dark so i followed him behind a shed a he handed me a huge sheet of what i thought was brass. I thought i could make ramrod pipes and other parts for my next project.

I got home and realized it is copper. About 5 feet by 2 feet.
What do you think I can do with this, other than hauling it to the scrap yard.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Depending on its thickness my mind comes up with several things. Copper cooking or eating utensils, maybe try making a powder flask, decorating stuff.

 

[Treestalker]

Well, before the legislature in Arkansas infringed on free enterprise, you could have made a nice personal 5 gallon whiskey still and learned a fine art which is now lost and the possession or making of said still is a FELONY here even if you are not using it in competition with the big boy revenue generators. Making their own whiskey was one of the reasons folks left Britain to live in a free country where a man could do for himself. Seems like I heard Mizz Hillary C. wanted to ban home gardens, too. I guess that way you couldn't produce corn for your own mash, heh heh. Well it will still make nice copper kettles, boilers, &c. It could also be used for pierce work on a cabinet instead of the everyday tin. Be creative, its a rare gift!

 

[oldwood]

If the copper sheet is thin enough to make r/r thimbles , make some. Sheet copper was on the frontier well before 1800. Visited a 1795 plantation house in Franklin , Tenn.. It had sheet brass flashing around chimneys , etc . Made sheet copper thimbles for couple of Appalachian Mtn. rifles. In use the copper turns very black quickly. It was on the frontier , should be all the license needed to occasionally use it for thimbles. The only argument against using copper for mundane parts like thimbles , working blacksmiths probably scavenged as much copper as they could find so as to use it for braising iron parts together. Neither of these suppositions are cast in stone , so make a few thimbles and put them on an ordinary flint blacksmith rifle. Who's to argue either point??...............oldwood

 

[SDSmlf]

Flashing around your chimney? I would save it and use it for unique thimbles or inlays. PC or HC? Don’t know.

 

[tenngun]

I did see an old boy make a SMR that was all copper. Looked awful nice. Said he got the idea from the frontier brag’ ‘I’m the origanal Iron jawed, brass bellied copper clad corpse maker from the wilds of Arkansas,’ so he called his gun ‘Copper Clad Corps Maker’ though I think all the corpses were four legged.

 

[Eterry]

Well, before the legislature in Arkansas infringed on free enterprise, you could have made a nice personal 5 gallon whiskey still and learned a fine art which is now lost and the possession or making of said still is a FELONY here even if you are not using it in competition with the big boy revenue generators. Making their own whiskey was one of the reasons folks left Britain to live in a free country where a man could do for himself. Seems like I heard Mizz Hillary C. wanted to ban home gardens, too. I guess that way you couldn't produce corn for your own mash, heh heh. Well it will still make nice copper kettles, boilers, &c. It could also be used for pierce work on a cabinet instead of the everyday tin. Be creative, its a rare gift!

I like the way you think!!! 90 proof

 

[Eterry]

Well, before the legislature in Arkansas infringed on free enterprise, you could have made a nice personal 5 gallon whiskey still and learned a fine art which is now lost and the possession or making of said still is a FELONY here even if you are not using it in competition with the big boy revenue generators. Making their own whiskey was one of the reasons folks left Britain to live in a free country where a man could do for himself. Seems like I heard Mizz Hillary C. wanted to ban home gardens, too. I guess that way you couldn't produce corn for your own mash, heh heh. Well it will still make nice copper kettles, boilers, &c. It could also be used for pierce work on a cabinet instead of the everyday tin. Be creative, its a rare gift!

Treestalker, I think it was frowned upon long before the Arkansas socialist legislature happened...Ever hear of the Whiskey rebellion? Uncle Sam frowns upon not paying taxes on spirits...or so I hear.

Besides, stainless steel makes much better kettles and refracting towers....so I hear.

 

[1950DAVE]

But copper is a lot easier to work than stainless , for the do- it - yourselfers.
Dave

 

[rich pierce]

Copper sheet is great for shaders that keep the sun glint off your sights for match shooting.

 

[Carbon 6]

Well, before the legislature in Arkansas infringed on free enterprise, you could have made a nice personal 5 gallon whiskey still and learned a fine art which is now lost and the possession or making of said still is a FELONY here even if you are not using it in competition with the big boy revenue generators. Making their own whiskey was one of the reasons folks left Britain to live in a free country where a man could do for himself. Seems like I heard Mizz Hillary C. wanted to ban home gardens, too. I guess that way you couldn't produce corn for your own mash, heh heh. Well it will still make nice copper kettles, boilers, &c. It could also be used for pierce work on a cabinet instead of the everyday tin. Be creative, its a rare gift!

In 1862, the Confederate state government of Arkansas enacted the first statewide prohibition law when it banned distilleries as a means to conserve food stores during the war.

 

[Eterry]

Copper sheet is great for shaders that keep the sun glint off your sights for match shooting.

Thanks Rich

 

[bubba.50]

Colonial lanterns, punched designed cabinet doors, plates/platters/serving trays, plaques, picture frames and assorted knick-knacks, or take it to the scrap yard and get a few cents per pound for it.

 

[Treestalker]

Civil war artillery limbers' (ammo boxes on wheels) lids used to be covered with sheet copper for weather protection. I think it looks cool, but I always wondered if lightening thought it looked cool, too!

 

[hogslayer]

Colonial lanterns, punched designed cabinet doors, plates/platters/serving trays, plaques, picture frames and assorted knick-knacks, or take it to the scrap yard and get a few cents per pound for it.

Yes this is my copy of one from from the museum of London (14th century)

 

[Doc Ivory]

I know this is kinda pedestrian but flashing around your chimney would be a great use for it.
I’ve used sheet copper to spin candle bases too.
Just thinking out loud

 

[VADSLRAM]

pretty much anything that you would use an equal thickness brass sheet for. It is a bit softer but some like the copper color.
I have a couple of sheets I picked up years ago. I use them to make the roofs on my bee hives. They weather out to a nice greenish color and keep algae down. Commercial hives use aluminum sheets but they do corrode through.

 

[Carl in France]

I made my ball box out of copper. You are limited only by your imagination...

 

[1950DAVE]

Really it's not worth anything just roll it up and ship it to me I will see that it is disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.
Dave

 

[Mulebrain]

You could also make a copper sink as well