tinware

[kingsax26]

Am looking to eventually upgrade my campware from the blue stuff to tin...any recomendations on who to buy from? I have been looking at turkey foot trading, and also dixie tin works.

 

[teakmtn]

Check out Hot Dipped Tin, Shay does serious and extensive research to make sure his products is very correct.
I have also used Backwoods Tin for the items that might not have to be absolutely correct but look ok and are nice to have in camp, like his awesome coffee pots and tin bowls.
These two vendors are great to work with and supply a great product. I'm sure there are others but my research brought me here. Good luck.

 

[Coot]

A second vote for Hot Dipped Tin. Carl Giordano is another excellent choice.

 

[RJL]

backwoods tin always gets my :thumbsup: and :hatsoff: , Bob does great work and very affordable prices.

 

[tenngun]

backwoods and girdino are top of the line. I would also recmend turkey foot traders and jordagin civil war suttler although he is awful proud of his work. some wtbs stuff is all post 1840, some is the same shape as a century earlier

 

[Stophel]

Carl Giordano is a fantastic tinsmith, and his stuff is very neat and professional looking. Nice quality. I have some items from other makers, some very nice, and others, while perfectly serviceable, are not nearly as neat and carefully done as my C.G. tinware.

:wink:

 

[Rod Lassey]

Another vote for C-G Tinsmith and Hot Dip Tin. High quality and competitively priced. Their products are made right, historically correct, you won't ever have to upgrade. Can't go wrong with either one. They are both on the web, look them up.

Rod

 

[Loyalist Dave]

C. Giordano
Backwoods

Early American Tin is one folks haven't mentioned yet..

Goose Bay Workshops (though mostly copper)
Westminster Forge (again though mostly copper)

I have products from all of the above, and they were all functional and well made. ZERO REGRETS

LD

 

[Stophel]

I have a nice tin cup and two copper containers from Stump Bluff Trading Post (he does mostly copper items).

You will also find tinsmiths at rendezvous, trade fairs, etc. that do nice tinwork, but are not "online". I got a nice heavy tin cup from someone at Vincennes last year, but I have no idea who it was!

 

[Bear Rider]

I've used both Backwoods Tin and the The Village Tinsmith with good results -- two cooking pots from Backwoods and a drum canteen from the Tinsmith. It's looking like I need a larger pot for heating water, and I'll probably order it from Bob at Backwoods this winter, when I set up for next season.

 

[nwtradegun]

i recommend you check ebay for used tin and copperware

 

[kingsax26]

thanks all for the reccomendations, just bought a few nice odds n ends from backwoods tin.

 

[rustyh]

Here is another option although allot of the items are stainless steel. http://www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catalog.htm