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Copper Pegasus clone forced patina

dreadacidic_mel

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is sick as tits.
Seriously. I am floored by how well this turned out.

Basic household vinegar and table salt. That does this. (I scrubbed off most of the crusty salt residue that was left after the patina, because I wanted the engraved lettering to be blue, and not much else)
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nabibrian

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gigggitttttty, aaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllrighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht!
 

dreadacidic_mel

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Well Jake how were we supposed to know your name is Jake?
 

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Did u clearcoat the finished product?
 

Bean8379

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I wonder what this would do to SS?
 

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Yeah, actually tried an electrolysis bath and it didn't really do anything but it did do something to the brass lock ring, I gave it an electrolysis bath and then sanded it and it looks like a completely different metal, its a trip.
 

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Nice. There should be a way to tarnish ss, but it's quite a bit different to copper or brass. Can't remember how to go about it. You can also heat ss to give it a different color (very generalized, that is)
 

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bingo! But this convo could tentatively be applied to a multitude of scenarios
 

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