How to Patina Copper
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Copper Sheets: I purchased my sheets in Dallas at a place called McMurry Metals
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This short video covers the basics of DIY Copper Patina. I happen to be using these sheets of patina'ed copper for bird houses but the possibilities of this process are pretty endless. I have always wondered how to patina copper and after learning the process I am happy to share it with the masses. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Another way that I have seen work within a few minutes is to lightly scrub them down with Comet, rinse, lightly coat them with salt, then pour peroxide on them. It works within minutes. Great job!
Oh that's neat, I didn't read that technique. What I find so interesting about patina is all the different ways and methods produce different colors.
@@AprilWilkersonMy neighbor and I have been using salt and different vinegars to patina sheets of copper flashing and they are absolutely mesmerizing to look at.
This works great - thank you!
One tip - varnish has an amber cast to it - that’s why your project turned green. Next time, try spray lacquer or spray clear enamel.
Thanks again!
just venturing into copper/leather jewelry, your's was the BEST instructions I have seen yet! thanks.
i work a lot with acid. so i can give you an important tip. use every time mask and safety glasses. your lungs and eyes will thank you. Sorry for my english, is not my mother language.
I've done some patinas in the past, but never with ammonia. I love the look, thanks for sharing this tip!
the patina is super outstanding! well done april!
This was really cool and simple procedure! Thanks a lot for sharing it :)
i really love the aesthetic of the patina, i just never knew it was this easy!
Really love that patina! Especially the bluer color ahead of time. Super gorgeous! Going to have to play with the copper sheet I've got in the shop. Go you!
When I darken or patina my copper I use Atlas rubber/clothe gloves, that way it keeps the oil from your hands off the copper and the chemicals away from your hands. They also keep the copper from tarnishing from the oils from your hands. With the humidity in Texas, it could tarnish copper over night.
I enjoy watching you expand your talent to new things. Keep up the great work!
Greg Nielsen
Copper Tech Construction, Inc.
Great info! Tried it and was amazed how good it came out! Thanks!
Wow April, they look amazing! 10 years of weathering in 1 day. Way cool!
Thanks Wayne. : ) I want to do this to so many things now, I think it's really cool as well.
I am new to patina but have been rusting things for years for our haunted house. I am ready to play with some patina now! I am going back to watch your birdhouse video.
thats great thanks , ive been preparing to experiment with different substances to get the verdgris but your method works fine
Very lovely effect, thank you, April! Looks gorgeous.
Spar Varnish is more UV resistant than Spar Urethane.
Wax coating on the roof after the seal coat dries, makes water roll off, and bird droppings not stick.
For those who need a simpler technique, there are copper reactive paints made by Craig and Rose in UK, and Modern Masters series in the US. Modern Masters is the special effect paint used by film studios in Los Angeles. They carry every silver, gold, pewter, copper, and pearly shade. These are acrylic paints like Latex house paints, a plastic emulsion, suitable for wood, plaster, drywall, metal, etc. If you have a plaster relief piece, and use their aging bronze or copper patina paint, it looks very realistic, like an old bronze piece.
this also works nicely on brass. I did this to a zippo lighter i have and i love it
Great video April, I didn't know it was that easy to create a patina on copper.
I was shocked at how easy it was. : ) There are so many cool things I want to do with this now.
+April Wilkerson Yes, It's now on my list of things to try. Thanks for the inspiration!
Woah, I was literally googling how to patina when I got the notification saying you uploaded this video. Thanks for the video!
; ) Good timing!
Turned out pretty cool April. 👍👍
Love that color, it's like a turquoise.
Nice work! Your helping me with a upcoming ornamental gate project!
Awesome! I bet it'll look great.
Beautiful effect. Thanks for sharing.
hello > A friend of mine mixed salt with amonia and then spayed > ended up with a very uniform green > pretty cool . Your technique is very nice too!!! Lovely
I heard you talking about this on the podcast. Do some research and you'll be surprised at some of the compounds people use to get patina. Great work!
Such a great tutorial. Thank you!
I'm making an apocalyptic character for my games course this video has been really helpfu. I can now make my characters armour look more old and scrap looking.
That. Is. GORGEOUS. I need to try this!
Yes! There are so many things you can do with it. : )
Hi April,
Nice colors for the patina. I'm beginning to believe there's nothing you can't do. :-)
; ) Not when I want to.
Thanks they look fantastic
Love that thank you for teaching me a skill.
To continue The rustic look use bronze finished screws instead of nickel plated
Excellent results!
I always liked building eyebrow dormers and bay windows with copper roofs for an exterior accent, especially with wood shake roof homes.
Add some copper to your home or shop as an outdoor project.
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Cool, I have seen a few folks that have videos similar but i like this one best. The sanding is the best part. :O)
So glad you made this video I been wondering how to do this for years
+joels outdoor vlog He He, when you started wondering, you should have placed some copper sheets outside, and the regular peed on them. Does the job too. :-)
It's pretty simple!
Just a cliff note on holding patina you can do it with a multitude of products bird feeder I would use bees wax . Vehicle or home boiled linseed oil in spay bottle (RAGS CAN COMBUST WITH NO IGNITION) linseed oil must be applied every year like Thompson water seal but for metal. You don't need a chamber you can apply amonia or vinegar vinager takes 48 hours outside in sun spray every two hours.
Fantastic video
April, very nice. If you would brass screws for the roof, you could patina them too.
Wonderful - I am going to try this with a copper pen!
love it, great video!
Cool, and lovely! I wonder if sprayed with clear acrylic if the blue would stay, like the green also.
Love that color! Cool vid!
Awesome job!
Amazing as usual
This video will help me in making my copper pipe lamp for the lady. Thank you!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching.
@@AprilWilkerson which works better, iodized salt or reg sea salt?
Beautiful!!! Thank you!
Ammonia fumes are also a good way to darken brass!
Awesome, good to know!
Very neat! You can buy copper at any roofing suppliers.
I called about 9 different local stores and everybody said there was only one supplier of sheet metal in the metroplex and that was in Dallas. : ) So I made the hike to go grab some.
Really sure i will use you technique in a future project. Thanks for the good explained video ! Would usual kitchen salt work as well ?
April, your patina turned out beautifully! I am curious though, did both sides color for you? I did the exact same thing and a couple pieces did yet, others didn't. I thought that was rather odd~~~
I LOVE THIS!
Those are some fancy birds you have
Looks like fun. Brass screws or maybe copper nails might not stand out as much but they still look good. You can get copper sheets on Amazon.
I think I'll try copper nails! I didn't know they existed or I would have picked them up at the same time I bought the sheets. : )
Awesome vid!
Very nice patina.
I'm really hate this colour every day facing patina in the refinery and try to protect the copper from rusted and so easy you love it :D
I love your workshop, lucky person ^^
You get good protection from the patina, the green/blue nature of many copper salts is a function of water hydration. There is another reason for using either brass or copper screws or nails (the copper nails should be in the plumbing section). Easy route is to say look up "galvanic corrosion", but the skinny is, dissimilar metals will rot each other.
: ) Thanks for explaining. I'm on the hunt for copper nails!
Thats really cool.
Is there a way to preservice or seal the patina? Clear coating maybe? Thanks for the great video!
Great video, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
To try to better preserve the verdigris it may be interesting to experiment making a few different mixtures of sealant from linseed / stand oil, other types of varnish and maybe some turpentine or another solvent. Maybe even an intermediate layer of clear acrylic spray.
When I first saw the thumbnail of that previous video I was asking myself, why do you put there such an old copper sheet... As a wanted efect it seems to be good idea and very convincing efect for garnishing.
awesom look!!
That is very cool.
Mashallah the blue copper is beautiful
YES. GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice April, love those colors. Fake copper, that sounds about right for a box store.
Right? I was so mad, I wasted three days scratching my head trying to figure out what I was doing wrong! Then I learned it wasn't real copper....psh. Haha.
I'd say it's se vinegar instead of ammonia because vinegar is not toxic but does take longer for the same effect.
Hi! How much longer? What kind of vinegar? Thank you!
You can also put the copper into a container with some vinegar, maybe even put some of it on the surface. Result should look the same.
April, great bird house project. Another project mom and dad can see and say "my daughter made that for me". Did you know how to do that patina process or did you look up how to do it?
Thanks April! Great, useful tip. Ron, Littlewierdshop
does it matter if you use nails or screws or would copper nails hold a patina? I'd love to see the outcome if you have any of the material left? and a few copper nails of course?
So long as it's copper, it will hold. I would use rivets, personally.
love it
SO COOL!!!!
thank you for sharing April. I really like all your videos and the one thing I like most is that you come up with everyday use projects that we cAn/use to accommodate our needs.
One question I have for you is how do you sell your custom products ? I find I so hard to din clients who can appreciate my hard work and time I spend on my projects :(
Thank you. Well I don't sell anything so I actually don't have any great advice. I don't make my living by making and selling, I make my living by building what I need and showing people how to do it.
Nice video! I don't think the video said what you did with the spray bottle of ammonia, except for spraying the 4th piece that didn't turn out like the others. Looks like you washed the sheets, sprinkled salt, and then what? Assuming maybe you sprayed the sheets with the ammonia after salting? And also added ammonia to the bottom of the tub?
Nice! Will adding a lot of salt give a more textured effect? Like a lot of granular texture???
Great video! I'm about to doe this for my bar back splash. I wanted to know if you have to have the vapor chamber? The piece I'm using is 2'x32" not to many tubs that large.
May be a bit late but David Marks former show "Woodworks" shows a process how he soaks cheesecloth with chemicals and wrapped the copper bench legs he made.
Well done! Looks wonderful!
Good vid. Thanks!
Nitrile gloves while cleaning would ensure no oil or fingerprints.
Will this work on electroformed copper? If so is it ok to put the entire item (including the items which are not fully coated) in the tank?
can you use masking tape or painters tape to mask of areas you don't want to patina? or would the ammonia eat through the tape?
that looks really great!
I wonder what would happen if you rough the initial surface up more, and then sand back the patina lightly and repeat the process.
I should really try this
I think this patina thing is a rabbit hole! You can easily spend weeks playing around with different combination of things. : ) It's quite fun so I agree you should try it.
April Wilkerson
yeah, I bet there are pretty much an infinite number of possibilities
How do you like that jaw vise you are using in this video? Use it often? Thinking of getting one, but not sure of how often I'd use it. Love your videos.
Oh I love it. When I was pulling it out of the box I was thinking I wouldn't really need it but now I laugh at how much I use it. It's great and it's one of those things where, when it's around you'll find good uses for it.
Great tip! Was actually planning a copper project that I wanted to age soon :)
How awesome, I hope it helped then!
+April Wilkerson Great help, the bluey teal colour before sealing is beautiful!
Agreed, I read that by not spraying the ammonia directly on the copper, it will give you this blue. So clean the sheets real good then sprinkle salt and just let it hover in the fume chamber above the ammonia. If you try a different sealer and it doesn't change the color let me know!
+April Wilkerson ahh great advice, thanks! I guess it must work slower not being applied directly. Maybe a matte spray lacquer won't alter the colour so much as it shouldn't penetrate into the patina as much and will dry super quick. ideally I'd like to avoid a glossy finish :)
Pro tip...Absolutely no need to put a top coat on. the patina will not come off. I patinated half the front of a home with copper sheet. About 200 sq ft. After creating the green patina it never received anything else. It's not changed in 20 years.
Interesting! Thanks for the info. I bet it looks amazing.
Have you ever just tried spraying the ammonia direct on sheet without the fume chamber step? Also which seal would NOT change the color of the blue patina? ty
I don't know if this seal is available in your country, but i have one called zapon spray from the brand dupli color. this one should not interfere with the color of the patina.
I have to admit, you know what your doing April. looks good.
Patinate is the word to use.
Patina is a noun.
Nice, will use on my letter box.
Can you use salt/ammonia solution? , ie, dissolve the salt in the ammonia?
Pissing on copper works too. May sound gross but it's free and less toxic then the straight ammonia.
Where did you get the copper sheets I've looked at lowes and home depot can I cannot find them I'm trying to make something
Put the heads of the screws all in the same direction it looks better
Nice vid
Hey! is it possible to patina an electroplated copper plate? its not the thickest but im not sure if it will work
Sparric Urethane? Gorgeous work by the way!
Thanks alot!
Glad you liked it!
Do you know if this will work with brass? I want to try this on a bare brass zippo.
is it the same process that happened to the statue of liberty? and make her turn from that copper color to green?
The patina can be scraped to make green powder for green paint!
Maybe you will have an answer for me. How to you get a lacker (sp) thats on top of copper. I have an old ice bucket and dont know how to remove it. Then i can do what your showing. ???? Thanks !
Hi
I was try to make blue patina with only salt and vinager it was removed easily when ı want to polished with metal polish. İs it permanent like a sulfur patina?