Color and copper

[Gerald]

Something I have wanted to try since I saw it done in Ozark village in Arkansas is coloring copper with torch. I tried propane but not hot enough. Got this acetylene torch from a turners estate the club helped clean up. 
 

found several videos but no substitute for practice. It is not a matter of holding the torch in one spot but kinda like flashing it to get color. Different colors come from various temperatures. A friend got some 28G copper and gave me some. As we are thinking inserts for box tops as another use. 
 

I turned a plate and cut a grove to place the copper. Colored the grove black. Cutting the copper round on outside was easy but used sander to create inside curves. Had to trim each piece as inserted to get close joints. Used drop of CA to hold in place.Now the last thing will be to get casting resin to seal this in

 

[lew]

That’s incredible, Gerald! 

[HandyDan]

Interesting look.  I like it!

[Cal]

7 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Interesting look.  I like it!

 

X2

[Pauley]

Wow!  Never seen this done before.  That looks fantastic!

[Gerald]

Well I did not get around to the final picture so while catching up on photo albums this is it. I used Alumalite Amazing Clear Cast to seal in the copper. The first pore left about a 2 inch sticky spot . I ground of some and did a fresh pore over it. It was amazing to me that the second pore is not obvious at all. I can feel it but cannot easily see it. The cool part of this resin is you can do multiple small pores and they all blend together ( according to instructions).

[lew]

I love the Alumilite products!