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Here's a few more I finished lately. The spiral and sail are repeats but I got the soldering down now and went with different patinas. They are both about 6" tall. The spiral has the Rainbow patina on the copper and the mild steel base. Permalac and a coat of red wax on the copper with black wax on the base. The sail is ferric nitrate on the copper and Black Magic Patina on the base with Permalac and black wax on the base and clear on the copper. The base has copper melted onto the mild steel.

I'm not sure what to call the larger one. It may be part of a series. I'm working on several pieces that start out with the same shape and turn out quite different. They are cut from a piece of flattened 3" copper pipe. I'm using the cut out as well as the left over piece. It's kind of cool working with the thicker copper versus the sheet for the smaller pieces. Glad I built that power hammer.

It also has the Rainbow patina and Black Magic Patina on the mild steel base. It stands about 10" tall and 8" wide. The base is 3/4" plate.

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way cool looking

Yow! Neat stuff! I like the one on the far left, and the one on the right, best. Looks like my basing work is getting you inspired. ;-)

Thanks for the compliments. I've got a few more in process. It seems like beating the copper to shape is the easy part. After you've got a cool shape , now what!

Those are great Tony! Nice job.

Thanks Steve.

Great looking stuff Tony. Nice job.

Thanks Fatzie.