1 hour ago, Smithy said:Has anyone worked with a copper retinning business in the past few years? Got any recommendations or warnings?
Sure. In addition to these, you can add:
Brooklyn Copper Cookware (Ohio)
Hammersmith (New York)
LJ Gonzales/Lucullus (NOLA)
Duparquet
I've used these, plus Rocky Mountain, and can recommend them all. Of note, many places that offer retinning quietly ship to others for the actual work. I suspect Fantes is one such.
Teakettles can be tricky, because the joinery can fail and leak and the spouts are not wipeable. So that may require special expertise in repair and maybe electroplating. My first recommendations would be Rocky Mountain or Hammersmith.