How To Make A Sheet Metal Rose

Get a piece of sheet metal from your favorite home store or salvage yard.

How to make a sheet metal rose.

Unlike real roses aluminum foil roses will last indefinitely and each rose costs only pennies to make. A steel rose also known as a metal rose refers to a rose sculpture fabricated entirely out of metal. Use your snips to cut it into a square. Lay the sheet metal over a block of wood or table end.

This is a fun metalworking project if you already know how to use the basic metalworking tools. Make six cuts into an aluminum circle at an equal distance from each other to form petals but leave at least a 1 4 inch buffer zone around the hole in the center. Each circle should resemble a flat metal flower with six petals. Solder the seam between the two.

Lay the rose petals out flat on the sheet metal. Place two kite shapes together matching two points of the shorter sides. Repeat this for all the cut aluminum circles. Ive been making these for a little over a year now and blacksmiths copper smiths and tin smiths alike have been using this method for hundreds of years.

I think im ready to share them on here finaly. Trace around them in permanent marker creating outlines. Step 3 cut out the petals using the oscillating power tool and router cutting attachment. You can make a flower from sheet metal with a few simple tools and a few simple steps.

While household aluminum foil works well don t limit yourself to standard silver. Cut the ends of each flap to form a scalloped petal edge. Once you have practiced the technique a few times you ll be able to make them in minutes to use as a quick gift or decoration. It involves cutting and shaping a bunch of metal circles to make the petals and adding a 5 point metal star underneath it to make the sepal which is the green leafy portion that rests under the discs.

Use the corner of the wood to create the crease in the metal. Fold the metal kite shapes so that there is a crease going through the center of the longest part. Discard the rose petals or set aside.