Coppersmith

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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.

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.

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