Coppersmith

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For other uses, see Coppersmith (disambiguation).

A coppersmith is a person who works with copper and brass. Coppersmiths lay out, cut, bend, and assemble pipe sections and pipefittings made from copper. They also manufacture tanks, hot water systems, roofs and other sheet based items from copper, brass, and sometimes other metals.

A coppersmith is also a person who uses copper in an artistic form to make things such as jewellery, plates, jugs, vases, trays, photograph frames, rose bowls, cigarette boxes, and tobacco jars, overmantels, fenders, picture frames, decorative panels, challenge shields, tea and coffee pots, and door furniture, kettles, tea urns and kitchen equipment.

Coppersmiths have also been called redsmiths because of the color of the metal they worked.

Famous copper styles in the UK include Newlyn in Cornwall and Keswick in Cumbria.

Coppersmith work started waning in the late 1970s, early 1980s and those in the sheetmetal trade began doing the coppersmiths work, the practises used being similar to those in the plumbing trade. Coppermiths although in the true sence of the word work in Copper in recent years many turned to pipe work in not only Copper but Stainless steel,aluminun, particully in the Aircraft industry They are one of the few trades that have a mention in the Bible! (2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 14!!!! Alexander the Coppersmith although later editions mention a metalworker.