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Finn Chimney Cap Simplified Tuscany arch style w/6/12 hipped roof w/Client's Company Logo Vienna, Virginia (2/12)

Cost: $5,500 delivered to Vienna, Virginia (attachment base 33" X 80" ISD, or 18.33 sq') The weight and cost breakdown was as follows: 233.5# - total weight - 42.2# - wood in the base - 26.8# - SS screen = 164.5# - copper weight X $24# rate = $3,948 for the copper + $660 - 33 sq' of SS screen + $292.50 - for 19.5 ln' of 5/5X6 hardwood inside the base + $500 - custom wood crate + $650 - truck freight to VA residential delivery = $6,050.50 grand total - less quoted ceiling cost for this project To see all 16 fabrication photos and read more about this project: http://copper-by-design.com/cc/cp/Finn.htm

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Sarkinen's Concave Hipped Roof Chimney Cap small hole screen for a natural gas fireplace St. Michael, Minnasota (1/12)

After building a mantle piece over a year prior I was contracted to make this stylish concave hipped roof design chimney cap for Chris & Christine Sarkinen in St. Michael, Minnesota to to cover natural irregular stone outdoor fireplace. It also needed to have a weathervane support pipe built into the roof for this stork style weathervane they got from a different Coppersmith who specializes in this sort of custom hammered copper work. Although there were a few problems with their design; as it is a rather confused weathervane. My Wife and I looked up over a hundred images from cartoons to photos of actual storks in flight to see what was bothering us about this design: (a) The most noticeable is the small torso they made. It should have been at least 2 to 3 times larger in proportion to the neck and head. (b) I understand making a silhouette WV, but if you are going to make it 3-D, then it should be 3-D. This has a slender 3-D torso, but that's where it ends. (c) The neck should be curved more with the head a couple inches higher. (d) The legs should be hanging down more to show the thighs that seem to be missing. (e) From what I can see they cannot bring their wings straight up like that w/o breaking their wings or at least hurting themselves. Maybe half that high at a 45 degree angle. (f) The wings are convex, where they should be concave. I know they may have been thinking they are on a downward stroke, but that still is not a valid argument, since that is not a truism. (g) I tested it in the wind outside, but this design will not point in the direction the wind is coming from very well. It does not have more tail than nose. The baby bag in front counter the drag of the wings that are behind the center pole. (h) The balance is off with it being nose heavy. I am pretty sure they should be made balanced to the center shaft, but if they are not they should be tail heavy. Not nose heavy. I believe I could have done better for less, but what is done is done. Cost: $2,452.17 delivered to  St. Michael, Minnesota The weight and cost breakdown was as follows: 78.2# - total weight - 14# - wood in the base - 4.1# - SS screen = 60.1# - copper weight X $25# rate = $1,502.50 for the copper + $116.67 - 5.83 sq' of SS screen + $108 - for 9 ln' of 1x6 hardwood inside the base + $125 - weathervane support pipe + $250 - custom wood crate + $350 - truck freight to Minnesota residential delivery = $2,452.17 grand total As stated above the weathervane was supplied by a different vendor

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