How To Apply Copper Sheeting To Wood

Cover both pieces and wait until tacky.

How to apply copper sheeting to wood.

Best of all this copper is easy to use and requires no harmful chemicals. Plastic sheeting over the entire copper sheet. Use a short piece of wood to bend the copper. It is then time to center place and secure the copper sheet on the cupboard surface.

This will give something for the adhesive to grab onto. Use the snips to cut a slight angle into the edge that hasn t been bent yet then fold and hammer the last edges. To remove a crease set the copper on a clean and smooth surface. You can t bend the copper to stay flat against the wood so hammer small nails or tacks into the copper.

Cut the copper sheet to size with scissors or tin snips so that it is the size of the mdf sheet plus another 3 inches on all sides. Imagine the reaction your family friends and customers will have when presented with a one of a kind copper veneer work of art. Apply the adhesive to the porous substrate with a glue roller. Lay the copper sheet on top of the wood so that the two adhesive coated surfaces meet.

Soak a rag in lacquer thinner and thoroughly polish the newly etched surface with it. In a well ventilated area thoroughly wash the back side of the copper with water or acetone using a steel wool or synthetic steel wool scotch brite pad. Place the copper sheet on the dowels. As for the adhesive just us west systems epoxy.

After lining up the copper. Typically the adhesive is applied to both surfaces be sure to use plenty of adhesive as the wood substrate will absorb some of the adhesive then dowels will be placed on top of the substrate across the width and extending over the edge a bit and then the copper sheet placed over the top of the dowels. A few passes will do the trick. I ve used contact cement the same kind used to apply laminate to a substrate.

The contact cement must cure for 10 to 20 minutes until both areas are very tacky. Take your copper sheet and a palm sander and rough up the back with 100 grit sandpaper. Lay the 1 4 inch dowels on the surface. Flip the copper sheet over set the vinyl in place and then roll the back side as well.

Gently scuff sand the back of the copper veneer with 80 or 120 grit sandpaper. In fact the procedure was almost identical. Lay a sheet of 4 mil. Then place a piece of vinyl material over the blemish and use the roller to flatten the wrinkle.

Apply the contact cement to the mdf and to the copper sheeting and wait 2 minutes. No two sheets are identical and each is an amazing work of art by itself. Paint a thin layer of adhesive onto the entire etched surface of the copper sheet. Spread it on the rough side of the copper like you would if you were spreading glue on a substrate for veneer.

Do not apply the adhesive to the copper.