Looking for copper stem bands

[spencer]

I am restoring an old town wood canvas canoe that has copper stem bands. These have the same cross section as the brass bands. Does anyone have a source for copper bands?

 

[Dan Miller]

If you can't reuse your old ones, then you are stuck replacing them with brass bands. No one makes copper ones anymore.

 

[peter osberg]

The trembley canoe of mine had 1 inch copper pipe slit longitudinally in thirds to make the stem bands. If you set up a jig it might not be too onerous to make. peter

 

[F Harvey Bowley]

copper stem bands

The Late Carl Ricker of Milo Maine who built and taught the art of building for many years using the Malon Sally forms had a jig that was built by a machinist in the Bangor and Aroostook machine shop that moulded copper tubing to fit the stem of a canoe you just put the tubing in between the mould and hit it with a hammer. copper tubing scraps were saved as he installed gas stoves