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can i make a heavy bopper?

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JEB:
 I help supply one of the sellers of knapping supplies with copper rounds when I can get them.  I check the scrap yard every few days.  I noticed a couple of solid copper rounds in the bin that were around 2 inches in diameter , 6 to 8" long but were mushroomed on the ends.  Trouble is you have to buy the entire piece as they have no way to cut the mushroomed ends off  which would leave a nice solid copper round.  I can check on the price if you want and mail it to you.  The cooper is costing me around $5.00 a pound and that is what it would cost you plus actual postage costs.  Might be able to get it in a small flat rate box.  There was also a copper hammer head in the box that looked like what a 2# beater would look like with a hole for a handle in the middle if that interests you.  Of course that is if all this stuff is still there.

Check in your area for a metal scrap yard that sells metal and you may find what you want.  I grabbed a bag full of copper butt caps one day at $5.00 a pound and that made them very inexpensive.
 

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