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Wed, Sep 19, 12 at 13:19
| I've seen a few stakes with leaves made of copper and somehow attached to the stake. I'm thinking that maybe soda/beer cans could be cut for the leaves and spray painted green but I'm not sure what the best method of attaching them would be. I'm wondering if they would fall off easily if bumped. Has anyone done this? |
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- Posted by cadillactaste 5 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 19, 12 at 14:17
| On Etsy a seller has copper wire wrapping around the stem as a vine not over and over like a spool of thread. So you see the stem through the wire. Then has the wire attached to the leaf. Looked real pretty. The leaf was hammered copper. Very pretty indeed! |
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| I just looked at Etsy and yes, this is really nice! It looked to me like the wire may be welded on the stem. That was what I was wondering about. I didn't want to try and glue the wire onto the stem if it would easily get knocked off. I'm going to start experimenting on making leaves for my stems. Thanks for the information! Marilyn |
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| I made some leaves from soda cans and they are too thin to work on plate flowers. Maybe if I glued 4 layers together they might be strong enough. I'll try that and see what happens. I know you can buy copper sheets at the hardware store so I might as well try that also while I'm at it. I'm just not sure how I can attach them to the copper tubing or pvc stems. I think solder would work on copper tubing instead of welding. |
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- Posted by laurastheme (My Page) on Thu, Sep 20, 12 at 4:28
| I played around with wire and leaf around the stem once. I drilled a hole in the pipe, bent about 1" of the wire, put into the hole and wrapped it round the pipe. I looked at the one etsy. Looks great, but $20 for the pipe and $20 for shipping. YIKES!! |
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