In the 80s we had several pieces of furniture made by a cabinet shop in Santa Maria, CA. They were all golden oak and modern in design. I brought the 8' credenza and a couple of file cabinets with me to Moline. Unfortunately, the credenza wouldn't fit any where in the house. Sadly, it became my garage workbench. I removed the solid oak slab doors for better access to the shelves. After some thought, I decided to make a bar car with copper pipe and fittings, the doors for shelves, gold colored cast iron trolley casters. The floor flanges are bronze, and the 1/4" hardware is brass. It irks me to see a copper pipe craft project where the joints are glued together. All of the joints here are soldered. After it was all assembled, I buffed all of the copper with a green ScotchBrite pad for a brushed matte look. There were 6 slab doors total. Three went into this, so I used 2 more to make a shorter side cart for next to the living room couch.
Very nice. Copper ain't cheap! Did you spray it with clear lacquer or something, or just going to let it age naturally?
I'm just letting it develop its own patina. Copper became a theme in my kitchen when I purchased a copper faucet for the new sink after I had the old Formica counters replaced with Swanstone. Now I have copper bar ware, and "inherited" s lot of copper pots, bowls and even a huge cauldron from a friend of a friend's estate.
