Reclaimed Copper Headboard
October 29, 2008
Original Concept Sketch
Treated Copper Tile
Composed primarily of scrap metal, this headboard is a labor of love, requiring a hell of a lot of hammering, tempering, buffing and polishing to turn each copper square into a spectral tile. Finished tiles are laid out in a checkerboard pattern on a 3-foot by 5-foot frame (for a queen bed) and then resin is poured over the top to coat and join the metal pieces.
Alternately (more work, but more aesthetically enticing), a few tiles are laid out, a layer of resin is poured, it cures, more tiles are laid, more resin is poured, and so on, resulting in a thick headboard with tiles “floating” at different depths, with a few breaking the surface at the back and at the front.
Another variation on the concept uses scrap wire, spliced together and laid out in flat bands, several wires across. The bands are hammered, tempered and polished, and then woven together and stretched across a 3×5 frame and coated in resin.
I’ll add more sketches to this post soon.
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Love that image of the copper. It’s a work of art in and of itself.