so, start of this month, I started working on this copper rose. its rather large, over 3 weekends, working about 8-10 hours each, and spending probably way to much time fiddling, breaking blades, polishing hammer faces, hammer thinning edges with a 8 ounce ballpein, chasing out divots and feathering the edges with a 3 ounce riveting crosspein, annealing without proper tools (no DG to deal with? stove eye!) and pickling in super dip, (1 tablespoon non-iodized salt to 1 cup vinegar, and 1/4th cup hydrogen peroxide to three cups of that solution, also great for cleaning off lead from suppressor parts if you don't mind making extremely toxic lead acetate.) 

curling of the petals was done with fingers, (C110 copper is super soft.) a set of cone nose jeweler's pliers, and tape wrapped needle noses.

for your sakes, I'll link you to the album. because it's over 50 pictures long.

I have attached some "finished" photos though.

 

the album:

http://imgur.com/a/mawuq

 

Beautiful. Well done.

Frosty The Lucky.

thanks! it came out 1000% better then I thought it would.
I have to admit it's been 2-3 years since i forged anything, and now I'm wondering why i ever stopped.

 

time to fix the forge and clean the shop I guess.

Looks good, I like that petal texturing.

I put it in with a tiny little 3 ounce crosspein. you have to polish the faces or it mars the devil out of the copper with little lines. 400 grit is good enough.

it's really easy stuff to work with. the stem is actually a section of 4 gauge ground wire from walmart, I sourced the copper sheet off amazon and way overpaid for it.

Beautiful piece of work! What gauge sheeting did you use?

beautiful. well done.

That looks expensive.

That's astoundingly beautiful, Golden_eagle! The detail is amazing- it looks real! I can only imagine how much you might be able to sell these for, especially given the popular copper-themed trend in pots, pans, and drinking vessels.