Copper Pipe Objects

Our copper pipe products are assembled with Copper-Bond® plumber's epoxy (and, lately, general-purpose slow-set epoxy). Soldering them might make things easier or somehow more industrially authentic, but changes the color of the copper in a brownish way (only unpredictably rainbowy). Unless otherwise noted, none of these pieces has been varnished -- or even polished. Also, I've ordered some patina-izers (blue-green and black), and we'll see what those do.

The first pics (objects for sale) are of new shiny parts, and the rest (practice prototypes) of old old parts. Unvarnished copper should slowly age towards the browner color, over the course of a few years.

At left is a photo of the first one of these tables I ever made-- mine. It was made of 3/4" copper pipe and fittings (all the rest below are from 1/2") and like many of the others here is still waiting for a glass top-- at the moment, it's being used to hold up a broken claw-and-ball-foot table from underneath. Another piece I've made for myself from 3/4" pipe is unphotogenic modular shelving for holding milk-crates. (Certainly those stack without help, but it's tedious to get at the bottom one.)

Speaking of which, I intend to leave you to your own devices when it comes to acquiring the glass tops, since shipping them would surely end in tears a certain fraction of the time.

3/4" Incense tubes

Unlacquered, tarnishing pleasantly and slowly, or polishable.

Reminiscent, perhaps unfortunately, of a pipe-bomb...

CD Rack

This is the CD rack, made of 1/2" pipe and fittings. Note that the bottom two fittings are street 90's -- they tuck in -- this is required for the bottom two rods to have an appropriate vertical displacement for CD's. The rest of the design follows almost inexorably, heh. The parts available constrain the design such that the rack doesn't really hold cassette tapes, though it holds videotapes fine. Also, it cannot be made in more than one tier, stacked kind-of-thing, you know? Your choice of length (up to 3').

Yin-Yang Table

A little accent table, about 9" round and 23" high. (The suction cups are vaguely useful but mostly for show.)

Square-Octagon-Diamond Table

A table, 16" square, and 2' tall. Polished and spray-lacquered.

Rose End-Table

An end-table, 12" x 30", and just under 22" high. Since the design is on the front, the top could even be wood (or plywood wrapped in sheet copper?) instead of glass. This looks really gorgeous next to a dark couch (my couch is too piled around with drums and art supplies to try it out, though, or to photograph it there). Polished and spray-lacquered.

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