Seriously, You Tube just ROCKS!!! It's the best thing to come along since the cell phone - but it is SO addicting!

EXCELLENT! This is a really nice project and your thorough explanation and demonstration makes it look and sound doable. You're a natural teacher.

Copper and silver have incredible health values. Even holding them is extremely beneficial. Fun fact: That’s why water pipes “were” made from copper. Ah..the good ole days when people actually cared. Thanks for the video I enjoyed and may attempt one day. Best rose to gift anyone.

wow that's really really nice.... your mother must have been really happy when you gave her one....that is a great gesture.... mothers do deserve a lot

Wow, what a beautiful flower, your mother must of been so proud of it. Thank you for this nice video!

I couldn’t take it anymore. I made the bracelet and it is beautiful! Thanks so much for the information AND inspiration!

Tarnishing the copper with the torch, once shaped, then lacquered and assembled is like a rare black rose color..(?). Very cool idea! Thanks for sharing!

I am sooo amazed and hugely impressed with not only this beautiful rose but this awesome man!!! Such a wonderful voice and I'd call his hands "magic"!!!

I've got one of those "never to be used in the kitchen again" pans! (Used my for gardening.) Excellent work, Sir!

I've made roses out of old fabric. I didn't bother using any templates. Just turning out a variety of shaped and sized petals makes for nice natural looking flowers. Doing it this way would require a bit more involved construction. Craft the petals and then start attaching them to the stem, working from the inside of the bloom out. Start with the smaller petals and work out to the larger ones, like this project does. This is a great project. Thanks for sharing. :)

Love the rose and watching you transform the copper. Beautiful!!

I can really appreciate your teaching style. It’s rare for someone to explain all of those little nuances that make learning so much easier. I would have liked more info on soldering, but I’m not complaining. The other questions I had were answered via other comments (length of tubes, wire gauge). I hope you will make more videos with copper. It’s unfortunate that so many people clog up the comment section with complaints. Use whatever recording device and music you want! People can be just rude and there’s no excuse for it. They can mute their device if they don’t like your music. If a commenter wants to offer a suggestion, they should do so without it being negative. I wouldn’t even reply to them. They could just as easily explained their thoughts on alternative methods without suggestion your way is wrong. Years ago, I played with copper wire to make jewelry (as a completely ignorant novice). I would take thick wire and wrap around natural sea glass. They were unique pendants as I could never repeat the same wrapping twice since thick wire can be difficult to work with! Guess I should have annealed it first! I think I actually have all of these materials so you inspired me. I used to buy electrical wire and cut off the casing resulting in many strands of cheap copper wires. Then, I would play with the torch until I got the rainbow of colors. Copper is a cool metal. I agree with you about coating with sealant. It will eventually wear off and/or if it peels, you will have a mess to clean up.

Thank you for sharing this project with us. May I say your video was really great in that the mix of video, voice, and music was great. I finished the video feeling 100% confident that I could do this given the complete description of what is required to complete this project. Great job.

@Coleman77

5 жыл бұрын

I M Czech I agree! It’s beginner level but intermediate soon after due to increased skill as one becomes comfortable to add changes to design or the stem.

Awesome idea and great explanation of the entire process. I’m definitely going to give this project a shot and try my hand at creating a copper rose. Thanks again!

Underrated channel. He is your ideal craftsman. I mean he used a crowbar as a hammer and explains everything fantastically. Very well done

One of those videos on KZread that absolutely nails how to do something creative. Many thanks for the vid 👍🏻

You did an amazing job….. I would be proud to have someone make one for me for sure. I may even try a few myself

What a beautiful flower! Thank you for sharing!

That's beautiful. Thank you for the in depth look at how to make a copper rose 🌹!!

I have slowly started on this today. It's a wonderful break from my daily work. I'm sure, if nothing else, I'll watch every ad that shows up on your site. Hope it helps. Again, thank you so much....

LOVE IT! ❤️ I will definitely try this! Not expensive and looks like a lot of fun! I can see making several different types of flowers to make a boquete, maybe out of different metals!

Nicely done! These turn out looking great, thanks for sharing your process.

i made two of these for my girlfriend and my 7 year of being together as two roses entwined together, great tutorial i used new copper brake pipe for the stem as i found that easier and cheaper to get hold of, not having any blow torches etc at home i used a brake pipe flare tool to grip the underside of the stem then drop the petals onto the stem and hammered the end over up top, giving it a heftier thump on the top of the pipe set the flare right under the petals locking it all together very tight so much so that they wouldn't spin as for enealing i used the electric cooker ring after the petal detailing, that work perfect.

awesome! Thanks for the details and how to handle those tricky spots that can make a project a lot less fun to try. That's a lot of time you spent. I enjoyed watching.

Just randomly stumbled across this video and wow, that's an awesome project! I've got loads of copper pipe and these roses would look awesome as building decoration! Luckily my father is restoring a house from the early 20th century (built in 1912) and he wants to replace all the gutters with copper ones. I reckon these roses would look awesome as decoration along the side of it. Just use them as a decorative way to hide the mounting points and give the house that more charm. Either this or use them around a few fireplaces or other decorative areas of the house and mix it with intricately carved woodwork.

Wow, I'm impressed that is a lot of work, looks really great ! Awesome job.

I work in pottery. You gave me great ideas on how to form a flower. Thanks. You do wonderful work!

I made one today and my wife loved it , Thanks for your inspiration .

Great design! I make much simpler ones, so this was a great video to add some pizazz to mine. Some tips from my experience: 1. Consider brazing your copper with brass rods with flux. The brass color looks great on copper in my opinion. 2. Add some pedals (if you do, brass is a must for brazing) 3. Heat treating at the end will create an amazing purple (don't get it as hot as you were early on in the video though otherwise you get that grey tone). Do as you did and quench immediately everytime. This takes some practice but the purple is worth it. 4. If you do heat treat it, a few passes with clear coat really gives it a great shine along with the color.

So beautiful.

Great winter project and/or hobby...I'm going to give it a try and aluminum too....Semi retired HVAC man here, very familiar with torches, plenty of used copper and instead of scrapping it all out, I'll experiment...Thanks for taking the time to do this video.

Awesome. I love roses. Never saw a copper one done before

For anyone who might not have a small cross peen, welding hammers work *great* for the texturing, and are usually available at the big box stores for pretty cheap.

Nice work! Now that I know how to make one, all I need is a shop, and all the necessary equipment. Seriously, though, this was a very nice, educational video!

Excellent use of spare time, the green rose of Texas once aging takes hold. Thanks for showing us your artistic work.

Thank you for sharing, lovely 😊 🤟🏻❤️ metal roses last forever!

It's a nice project, and looks great. Thanks for sharing it.

Turned out real nice. Using the pipe is a good idea also.

Nice Work! I love working with copper. I'll bet they'd look great fumed. Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate this.

Years ago my Grandmother showed me how to make a Rose out of wax in much the same way ! Have to tell you, these are absolutely beautiful ! I am paralyzed from my shoulders down, however, will be working with my assistant, and trying to get a similar result ! Just beautiful ! Thanks for the inspiration !

This is the most beautiful piece of Roses 🌹 ever personally I would like to say thank you 🙏 so so much for sharing your excellent experience to all of us around the whole I tire world 🌍 again thank you so much 😊 May god bless you and your family.

I haven't had the pleasure of working with copper like that, however I have used 18 gauge sheet steel to do it and that was a fun project. I even went so far as to add thorns and leaves to the stem. I started by using a 3/16" 7018 welding rod as the stem after I stripped the flux coating off. I then hand cut and shaped several different shapes of petals to see what looked best. The first 2 layers had 3 petals per layer, the next 2 layers had 4 petals, then the next three layers had an additional petal per layer (all together it had 32 hand formed petals). All petals were hand formed and I used diffrent hammers for multiple texturing effects on all the petals and leaves. The center came to a point and the thing weighed almost 10 pounds when I was done, but it was worth it. I highly reccomend trying it if you have the time and the patience to do it.

@TSPhotoAtlanta

8 ай бұрын

10# !! Now that’s a ROSE, mate!

Excellent video! Thanks for a great project.

Totally awesome! Beautiful Rose and great video! Thanks!

Thanks for sharing your art work, they look fantastic! I made an indoor lily pad water fountain out of copper years ago,complete with a "leaping" frog and I did use a similar technique to create the veins in the leaves, but I used a bench mounted wire wheel to create a beautiful ripple effect over the whole surface. The end result was a very realistic looking leaf.

@petaoloughlin3473

2 жыл бұрын

Can you add a photo please?

You nailed it! I make roses and other flowers from air-dried clay, I am surprised how beautifully these came out. Thanks for the tutorial! Blessings to you.

@mosdef7180

6 жыл бұрын

Christie Decker do u have a channel? Would be cool to see clay flowers....

@christiedecker2724

6 жыл бұрын

No, no channel, but I do have a Facebook page where I sell my flowers and other creations. :) You look me up over there, I'll point you to my page. Don't want to advertise my things on someone else's site, that just wouldn't be cool. :) Blessings!

@mosdef7180

6 жыл бұрын

Christie Decker yeah, it would be kinda mssdup

@chucksiess5199

6 жыл бұрын

Woodturning

@johnwhite2454

4 жыл бұрын

Familmatters.celtic.colorsn @ gmail y

That's gorgeous! Makes me want to work copper again. And I like tarnish, it adds depth, so tend to only gently buff the high surfaces with a scotch pad to keep the highlights, and let the rest gain patina.

OMGosh I love the rose! Fantastic job. I just did all my porch rails in copper, which I did a hammered design. So a have a ton of heavy copper sheeting left over that I'll give this a go with. Thanks so much for sharing!

@gregoryhalye8907

6 жыл бұрын

Copper, as well as silver, and several other metals out there are "work hardening" metals. In order to give them a harder surface that will stand up to abuse and handling, they get work hardened by hammering on them or by putting them in a polishing drum loaded with steel shot of various sizes. Once work hardened, they are no longer flexible. To soften, or anneal, these metals, they have to be heated up to a red heat and then quenched ... this removes the work hardening, allowing the metal to remove the stress built up and make the material easier to work with. When pulling wire from pure silver, for example ... every other wire size you move down, you'll want to stop and anneal the material, or it will work harden and snap while you are trying to force the wire through the die. Iron and steel (containing a large percentage of iron), is actually the "odd one out", in that heating and quenching can harden the material (steel). This is actually done by having the CARBON content cool very quickly, creating an extremely hard matrix within the metal that hardens the metal around it as well. (explained in layman's terms).

great video man! just finished one for my ma for mothers day and it turned out better than i anticipated. thanks for the idea!

@nothankyou5524

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to hear about all you've done or even just thought about doing since then.

For a guy that can 't draw a flower, you sure make a nice copper rose

@luciidusal

6 жыл бұрын

XD

@christopherleveck6835

Жыл бұрын

It was supposed to be a tulip

Looks like a great project to do in the shop with my daughter 🤗

Gorgeous - two of my favorite things; copper and roses.

One easy way to clean metal after its been annealed is to soak it in a solution using the Ph minus pool chemical. It's the same chemical that is sold as a cleaning "pickel" by jewelry supply companies and its much cheaper to use Ph minus. Nice video. Thank you.

That's gorgeous. That would look awesome in the garden. I would loe to actually clear coat it because outside I wouldn't want it to go green. Very lovely!

Stunningly clever and beautiful end product from a bit of a scrap pipe and a boat load of understated skill. Result!

Certainly a great piece, thank You for your video.

Very beautiful , love that. Makes me wish I had the stuff to make me one . Tfs, hope you have a blessed day 😊

@1Ascanius

6 жыл бұрын

Betty Hall beautiful yes

@bettyhall9777

6 жыл бұрын

Dina N. Thank you so much for your tips

@Coleman77

5 жыл бұрын

Betty Hall based on my depot purchases that torch is most expensive tool. Torch works well with the propane cans. I suggest already owned tool for hammering or the texture. Shears next most expensive and the tube cutter but they may cut for you at the store. That torch is just better than the basic plumber torch tip made of brass. $100.00 less gets you started with most essential tools and copper. Just go and make one! If the will is there you will find away to make one. - good luck 👍

@deborah5568

4 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of 6 roses I bought from the funeral home with my moms ashes in the center of them. 100.00 for each, but they are beautiful. I gave them to her grand children. My mom and I loved roses and my grand mom as well. I named my daughter Tiffany Rose, it's a real rose that is so gorgeous.

@nothankyou5524

4 жыл бұрын

Do yourself a favor and get them, borrow them, or use whatever you have until you do. You will never believe where your thoughts, and maybe your future will go, once you start doing things like this. I lost sight of doing things like this way to long ago. Whatever it takes, if this interests you, go gett'em. You won't be sorry you did. Best of luck to you and much success....

Found my girlfriends birthday present. I think I might do some things a little differently but that's apart of creativity. I was thinking bending the stem and making a leaf on the bottom and possibly using wire with strands instead of solid wire and making a bud in the center with the strands. But either way it turned out amazing the way you made it. 👍

Thank You - thoroughly enjoyed your process. Excellent!

Thanks. This is really cool. Appreciate your expertise. Turned out so lovely.

Excellent, educational video. You made a fine piece there. Thank you for sharing.

YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT..!!COPPER IS MY FAVORITE MATERIAL...!!

@ritamammeri1106

5 жыл бұрын

GIANNIS LYMPEROPOYLOS Why you are screaming 😂

@Bighoss9.51

5 жыл бұрын

Why dos it bother you that they are using capital letters?

@peggylocke1016

5 жыл бұрын

This is gorgeous and Giannis, Copper is my favorite as well. The versatility and colors that come forth are amazing ,. Thank you for sharing.

Nice work. Can't wait to try it for myself. Thanks for taking the time to make and share this video with us.

You sir are an artist. Your skill is matched only by your modesty.

Great job.

It's not just a beautifully crafted rose... This video CURED MY INSOMNIA!!

Nice rose, also a nice workshop!

Mothers day is next wknd. I need to get busy! Nice little project. Thanks for the instuctions.

Beautiful !! Thank you for sharing : )

Really glad I came across this video. I had to subscribe love what you've got on your channel.

@RidgewoodMachine

6 жыл бұрын

John Biggs , I appreciate that very much. That kind of feedback encourages me to continue learning how to improve my videos.

@merlinmundy6739

6 жыл бұрын

GreenBarn German Shepards the

@MrMaddogmick

6 жыл бұрын

GreenBarn German Shepards was

It is beautiful! My grandaughter made one for me a few years ago. She was 18 and took a class in metal working. That little (?) Girl is 27 now....Her name is "Jessi" and she can do ANYTHING!!! ❤💖💗👍

That is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

That was really cool!

@RidgewoodMachine

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Papa!

Thanks! Your video inspired me to make my wife a rose in this manner for our 7th wedding anniversary two days ago (the copper anniversary, of course!) and she was delighted.

beautiful,from new Zealand on this bright sunny day thank you for that.

Well done, I was looking for an easy rose to make my wife and you very much caught my attention. Thank you

Great tutorial and I love the music as well. Thanks! Really lovely result.

A couple of points. Roses are five petals per layer, not six. Not a big deal at the end of the day, but it does make a difference in the appearance. While far more work, forging the edges of the petals to thin tapers also improves the form. Your use of the cross pein to give texture is fine. One can use a very fine lining punch if deep accuracy is desired. They are not terribly difficult to make. Some of the roses my fellow smiths have produced have been simply astonishing to behold. I might suggest forming the sepal prior to riveting the other petals in. You might need to make a fixture for holding it for setting due to the curvature. Again, it depends on what you seek to achieve in terms of result and how tolerant you are of extra work. Your rose is very fine, BTW. My suggestions here are offered only for those who might seek to take things to the next level. There are always those who get bitten by this sort of work and then go apey to refine and perfect their results. Another great material for roses is titanium. One advantage is one may anodize the various parts to very convincing colors such that at first blush, a well done example might be mistaken for the real thing. Some of the work of my fellow smiths is simply spectacular. Once again I advise those who try this beware - it can become very addictive. Nice work. Thanks.

@unclespongehead

5 жыл бұрын

"Roses are five petals per layer, not six." I think that is significant. Study the nature of the object before trying to reproduce it. Although, this rose is stunning no matter the number of sides. Bending over the outer pedals brought so much life. Kudos. I was a math major. There was this guy named Bernoulli. I won't bore you with the details. Look at a nautilus shell, look at a sunflower, look at anything in nature and discover the underlying pattern. You can make anything look good by mimicking its structure, as long as you have the skill and ability of @Ridgewood Machine :-)

That is beautiful! I watched from start to finish👍👍👍

E X C E L L E N T ! ...Great art work and step-by-step tutorial. Thank you very much sir.

Awesome idea using the copper from pipe and stunning final product! How are you liking those Knipex??? Just bought a couple pairs myself recently, have yet to use them.

@RidgewoodMachine

6 жыл бұрын

I really like those Knipex! The little ones like that let you get in to tighter areas and the smooth jaws don't leave tooling marks.

@ProctorsGamble

5 жыл бұрын

Since getting Knipex, Channellocks scare my fingers! No more pinched pinkies.

Really nice. Thanks.

WOW! That's so beautiful!!! I love it! 😊

Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!

If you're not in a super hurry, I've found dropping the copper in a bath of vinegar after annealing gets rid of the oxide layer really nicely. No scrubbing required. Takes a couple hours though.

@Coleman77

5 жыл бұрын

BEdmonson85 I have not tried the vinegar on any thing yet Ketchup with some water also works just add the water warm and soak. Comes out very nice and later will keep the metal pink or orange if not touched. If needed use dry comet powder to buff real nice. Adding water will increase the abrasion effect. Or a nice paste polish. Out of all that the ketchup will allow the copper to remain bright a long time if: untouched, if moisture is low-say indoors. You either like copper or not. I love copper!

@deby7821

5 жыл бұрын

Vinegar with salt works amazingly.

@wraithvendeta

5 жыл бұрын

Anything with citric acid. Pickle juice works great.

@thool

3 ай бұрын

How do you keep it from turning green as it dries?

Straight up 8 making your rose that has not opened the long stem my aunt from Arizona who has passed taught me that when I was a kid and I still use it to the day

great work! love the detail in the petals

Beautiful, I love that this can be made with simple tools.

Beautiful! My daughter’s boyfriend presented her with 3 welded roses on their first date. He’s a welder by trade. Being romantic she said, they can also be used as a weapon.

That was a wonderful tutorial! Thank you for taking the time to explain everything. My only questions are, what type of solder did you use? (I work with stained glass so I use mostly 60/40) And what gauge wire or copper rod did you use for the stake? Thanks again, just beautiful!😊

@brendencammer8380

4 жыл бұрын

Thats 6 awg looks like

@randyherringshaw6325

4 жыл бұрын

It looks to be about 3/16" or 1/4"

@loriebyrd3521

4 жыл бұрын

I've never done anything like this and would love to try but I have 1 question?! On the soldering since it's not welding, there's no need to wear face shield correct?

@shootthemoon6072

3 жыл бұрын

@@loriebyrd3521 correct

Reminds me of my Dad's xmas lighted Creche frame! He used, 1950-60 aluminum cans, if that made any difference. It lasted forever... well, it still is Beautiful. Thanks for the Memories!

Beautifully done, thank you!

This is absolutely beautiful! I want to make one to use on a copper cuff bracelet. This is too pretty not to wear!

@Carpenters_Canvas

5 жыл бұрын

Naturally Yours ooh cuffs , lol I’m only kidding I am going to attempt this soon , you could easily make 1-200 bucks one one if u wanted to . Copper art is really fun I been trying it

@nothankyou5524

4 жыл бұрын

You have a heart for design and artistry...

@nothankyou5524

4 жыл бұрын

@@Carpenters_Canvas - You haven't been trying.... You've been doing.... Big difference.... Your effort is to be proud of and to be commended. Best of luck to you.

"down in the thingie below" insta sub 😂This guy speaks my language.

how Beautiful, what a lucky lady to receive such a wonderful gift. I would buy a dozen

I would have never came up with that in a thousand years. Well done!

That turned out really nice! Did that vice come from a milling machine? I have a dumpy little HF metal turning hobby lathe but it work well for the sorts of things I do where the tolerances don't need to be super precise. It comes in really handy for turning left-handed threads for fishing reel handles on older ones that I find that are missing. Glad I'm sub'd to your channel, I know I'm going to learn a lot here!

@RidgewoodMachine

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is a mill vise given to me by my brother in law. It is far too large for most of the work on my mill and at 135 lbs is definitely too heavy to be humping around. However, it made a great rose holder.

@marklittle-list6513

6 жыл бұрын

Sure, didn't you see the cutter gouge near the center of the back jaw!!

Nice, perhaps you may be able to use an acrylic clear spray to keep that nice cooper color, the spray should keep it from turning dark. Make sure to clean off the acid used to solder the stem with, you can use cooper to solder with, it just needs more heat where as the lead need less to liquefy; in this case using cooper rode to solder is better.

@jonnyrox116

6 жыл бұрын

frank zambuto I do a bit of copper work myself and prefer the patina to the clean copper look in most projects. I dissolve a high nitrogen plant fertilizer in water and spray it on and let dry, it gives you the deep and pastel greens and I come back with scotch-brite and buff the tips back to shiny copper then hit it with the satin clear. Makes for a real antique look.

@francescozambuto1713

6 жыл бұрын

Please accept my apology for my late reply unfortunately I have had some writing to do. I find your information most interesting, have tried it. I like learning new ways of doing things so have to thank you for sharing your technic with me. At the same time I find the need to inform many viewers about the dangers when soldering with led and flux; as the two are heated they give off white vapors that's inhaled, it very toxic and therefor one should wear a mask when soldering. Also the flux will turn your finger or hand green and if you have any cuts or wounds it will make them worst. So wash up really well or wear gloves when working with led and flux. Just heating led send a vapor that when inhaled effects your brain. Cooper will also turn your hands green. Try it put some on a peace of cooper and look at it the next day if I'm not wrong it will turn green.

@lovescamaros1

6 жыл бұрын

lead-free solder is fairly common these days.

@philgiglio9656

6 жыл бұрын

Silver solder is also available, just expensive. I've seen a silver dime filed down to dust and used as solder, it can be 'dusted' into the joint then heated with a small torch like a cigar smoker would use.

Finally someone on youtube annealing copper correctly, most people air cool it like you would with steel.

Wow! Gorgeous and so realistic looking.