Copper Sources

[jdanforth]

I have been buying copper from onlinemetals.com for a while now. Though I’ve ordered from Renaissance Graphic Arts before, I had to do it over the phone and their stock seems to fluctuate.Well RGA has thankfully launched a new online store that sells mirror-finish copper that is *almost* ready to send to the silver plater and is cheaper to boot! This could be a real time saver.

http://www.shinyphotos.com-copperplates

http://www.printmaking-materials.com/

[Andy Stockton]

Thanks for posting this resource. Cheaper and better. I like the sound of that. I noticed in your own blog site you mention using a local plating company. I don’t see many mentions by contemporary daguerreotypists to doing their own plating. Caswells has home plating supplies. Any thoughts on the value or problems with home silver plating?

[jdanforth]

Andy_Stockton wrote:Thanks for posting this resource. Cheaper and better. I like the sound of that. I noticed in your own blog site you mention using a local plating company. I don’t see many mentions by contemporary daguerreotypists to doing their own plating. Caswells has home plating supplies. Any thoughts on the value or problems with home silver plating?

Caswell has a dip plating kit for about $700-800 that would work. I decided that doing my own electroplating was entirely beyond the realm of sanity. I’ll leave it to the experts.

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