twharton Posted December 14, 2006 Report Posted December 14, 2006 In the voice of Eric Cartman... MUST..... HAVE..... KOPPER.... KOOKER.... But it's twharton's precious it is. Will go great with the color scheme. Yeah...I can be kooking low and slow on Gigantor and steaks on Kopperhead. Thats the ticket. So Dennis can you have it here by Christmas!
Zorro Posted December 17, 2006 Report Posted December 17, 2006 The Kopper Komodo is really neat. What happens if you don't get enough moisture out of the ceramic part before the copper goes on? Can you still go through the slow break in process without a problem? Zorro
DennisLinkletter Posted December 17, 2006 Author Report Posted December 17, 2006 moisture.. I will very carefully monitor the weight of the cooker to ensure the material is very dry.. But my guess is that the vapor will of course take the path of least resistance and make it's way to the neck and escape..
LeadDog Posted December 17, 2006 Report Posted December 17, 2006 Copper? Big deal but then of course I have a Golden Nugget!
Porkchop Posted December 19, 2006 Report Posted December 19, 2006 wow! that is DEFO a showpiece! awesome! and, yes, it is SUPPOSED to turn green! i cant wait to see this piece 10 years from now! 1
gotwood Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 IMO, this would be nicer not taking on the Patina Finish... And there are plenty of ways to prevent/slow the oxidizing process down. But I'm sure every now and then you will have to put in a bit of elbow grease to keep it looking like the raw metal
jnoble Posted August 11, 2010 Report Posted August 11, 2010 hand hammered copper. wow Wow. Seriously Dennis, is one of these going to be available? I'm not kidding. And guys, what do you think? Should it be expoxied to preserve that copper look, or should it be allowed to patina? Either way would be groovy. John N
Paswesley Posted August 13, 2010 Report Posted August 13, 2010 I can only look and long. I could never justify paying for the world's first $10,000.00 kamado. With the craftsmanship, cost of materials and sundry, it could cost $15,000.00. Yet, were I a wealthy man, as some of you are, I would "jump in it (sic)," to quote the micro-giraffe kissing Russian on the commercial who is such a lover of opulence. "Opulence. I has it (sic)." Dennis, maybe you could have a one year waiting list for this cooker, like a top Ferrari. I wonder if, subjectivity aside, foods would taste any differently when cooked in a hammered copper KK? Probably taste better...
DennisLinkletter Posted August 14, 2010 Author Report Posted August 14, 2010 Happiness does impart better flavors! I'm confidant that food would taste better on a hand hammered Komodo.. We had about 6 different people say they could and fail miserably.. We heard about this old guy but he lives in the middle of nowhere about 6 hours from the factory and can not be motivated to move to the big city.. so he sits in his lil' shop and fixes old pots. He said with the spike in copper prices nobody ever orders copper pots from him. Making this top took three trips and the edge does not line up with the lip of the KK. I recently asked my office to look for a new craftsman restart the ball rolling..
mguerra Posted August 14, 2010 Report Posted August 14, 2010 Check with the Zildjian cymbal factory. They are experts at this and do it all day.
Paswesley Posted August 15, 2010 Report Posted August 15, 2010 The Zildjian cymbal artisans have a fairly high degree of automation in their factory and use a lot of specially made jigs to produce the large number of cymbals that they make daily. There is a certain amount of hand craftsmanship, but not the degree that Dennis is looking for. If I understand Dennis correctly, he is looking for a craftsman who can hammer the copper completely by hand. Dennis: two ideas. First, is it possible to visit the Zildjian factory to see their process firsthand and to brainstorm about how specialty jigs could be built to take some of the exacting craftsmanship out of the equation and allow for reproduction? Even with the jigs, there would be opportunities to preserve uniqueness in each KK. While there, you could pursue the possibility of having the jigs made by Zildjian and shipped to Indonesia. Second, is it possible to cast the copper cladding, by lost wax, for example, or by using a casting sand that I saw on the learning channel? Just some thoughts, which are probably without much merit, but I offered them anyway. Anton
DennisLinkletter Posted August 16, 2010 Author Report Posted August 16, 2010 Cymbals are easy squeezey Cymbals are easy squeezey as my 5 year old Isla would say.. They are round and simple.. Probably made on a lathe over a mandrel. On the other hand the OTB shape is complex and needs to be an exact size so it will fit into the mold base and line up with the lower.. It takes a master to do it correctly.. Many pieces are first welded together and then heated and hammered to shape..
