10-06-2009, 02:46 PM
Oh yes, Aleksander, I'm well aware of that little issue :wink:
Metal Supermarkets is where I get my steel locally- their 'red metals' stock is limited to yellow brass and copper, and even specific copper alloy producers have little in the way of red brasses or bronzes (in sheet form), so resellers usually aren't of any use. I go to Alaskan Copper and Brass locally, and even they don't produce much other than yellow brass in copper alloys. There's one jeweler supply place in the US that does sell sheet bronze so someone must make it, but I have no idea who and the price for little squares from that place is extremely high- but that's the way with jewelry supply, or medical supply or any other specialty supply- the price goes up an order of magnitude from everyday sources for the same things LOL But I'm not actively searching anyway- this is a future project. It won't matter much about the actual metal until the question of thickness is at least reasonably worked out...
Metal Supermarkets is where I get my steel locally- their 'red metals' stock is limited to yellow brass and copper, and even specific copper alloy producers have little in the way of red brasses or bronzes (in sheet form), so resellers usually aren't of any use. I go to Alaskan Copper and Brass locally, and even they don't produce much other than yellow brass in copper alloys. There's one jeweler supply place in the US that does sell sheet bronze so someone must make it, but I have no idea who and the price for little squares from that place is extremely high- but that's the way with jewelry supply, or medical supply or any other specialty supply- the price goes up an order of magnitude from everyday sources for the same things LOL But I'm not actively searching anyway- this is a future project. It won't matter much about the actual metal until the question of thickness is at least reasonably worked out...
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