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Looking for advice on bending and cutting silicon bronze

Steve Lee - Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 2:48pm

Hello
I'm a new member (15 min ago) but have enjoyed reading posts on this site for some time. I am a furniture designer / builder working on a sculptural furniture project using 1/8" silicon bronze sheets (c65500). I have very little experience working with this stuff apart from some small castings for an antique sailboat. I was wondering it is possible to make small cuts (16" max) in the 1/8" sheet with a jigsaw or a low-speed circular saw made for metal with a blade for non-ferrous metals. Would work-hardening be too much of a problem?

New to Art Metal and wanting to learn, learn, learn and make new friends!

dawnebryant - Sunday, September 6, 2009 - 1:12am

I am new to artmetal and I hope to make new friends and learn more about working with metal.

I have worked as a bench jeweler in the past and just recently set up a custom jewelry design/repair shop in a caboose in the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Bandsaw blade for copper

copperjoe - Friday, June 12, 2009 - 5:35am

Whitesmithing | Artmetalists bandsaw | blade | copper | cutting

Hi all,

I have been trying to find a bandsaw blade for my vertical bandsaw and have not had any luck. I called my local metal supplier and he could not find what I needed either, so I was wondering if anyone knew of somewhere I could find what I am looking for. I am cutting 1" thick copper (about 25 30ga.sheets stacked)and I need a 1/4" blade 92"long with 6tpi. I am trying to cut out multiple patterns at once and the blade that I got from Lowe's just won't stand up to the job. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

cutting out multiple patterns

copperjoe - Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 7:34am

Whitesmithing copper | cutting | pattterns

Hi, I have searched this site and have not found an answer to my question so I thought that I would ask all the talented people here.

My question is, "What is the best most economical and fastest way to cut multiple patterns?" I am working with 30ga. copper. I have a small shop and I have been cutting my patterns out one at a time with heavy duty scissors by tracing the pattern each time. I have also tried placing about 5 layers of copper sandwiched between thin plywood and cut it out on my scrollsaw. The problem with that is, I can't find any metal cutting scrollsaw blades. I went through 8 spiral blades and cut out 2 flower petals which would really be 10 petals total; it only took 1-1/2hrs!