Oooooh, Toomuch, this has real possibilities! I'll be watching to see what you do with it!

I'm waiting to see how you finish it off!
I have some copper tubing that could be
used to make something similar. I need someone
to teach me to solder tho'.

I bet if you hang some beads on there it will be stunning! In Birds & Blooms magazine, someone made a hummingbird feeder out of a glass bottle and some copper tubing like that. They wound the tubing around the bottle and then decorated with some beads. You can buy the hummingbird feeder stoppers online. Or it would make an awesome swirly thing!

Glass teardrop prizims...

Did you have any problems getting the solder to stick to the copper? I've never been successful at it.

I hope you come up with something to hang on it.. that thing is too cool.
I like the idea of the hummingbird feeder. You could hang some red beads on it to attract more attention.
(although I have some of those stoppers and mine all dripped)

If you have some tea cup feeders you could hang some miniature tea cups on it to work with the theme.

If you can't come up with anything I have an old wind chime that fell apart that needs a new home... hang it small side up and hang the tubes inside it to use the tube as a clanger.

Interesting!! Maybe a fancy garden sign?? Jan

What a great idea. Do u have a crystal or sparkling doodads? I can them on this twirling in the sunshine.

Kat

Might as well stick a blue bottle in there toowhile youare at it. Use those soldering skills girl!
Kathy

wow ........... never thought of a blue bottle .... darn it -- here comes another project !! LOL

Soldering to copper is very very easy and inexpensive.

What you need:
1. solder
2. solder flux.
3. Soldering iron for small pieces, propane torch for larger pieces.
4. Sand paper to clean before items are to be soldered.
5. pliers to hold items while you are soldering so you don't burn your fingers.

Here is what you do:
1. clean items to be soldered.
2. apply flux to both items.
3. heat up items just enough to melt solder. Don't over heat.
4. once solder cools down, you are done. Do not move the items at all until the solder solidifies.

That's all to solder copper-to-copper.

To solder iron or stainless steel, you will need stainless steel flux.

dcarch

This is sooo inspirational!!!! It's def on my List-o-Projects now!!!! I can see some super nice stained glass hanging off it!!! Or fused glass wind chimes(My BFF just bought a glass kiln!lol)

Blue bottle! Would be awesome! Cool work, 2much! Jeanne S.