A first attempt at forced patinization; should I stick with this or redo it?

Anyone know if any chemicals put a patina on stainless. I read somewhere about using coffee but never saw the results.
 
hoopster said:
That Swamp Warden looks great and remember patinas tend to always be changing with use anyways. Here's my Izula that's had patinas forced from quite a few substances but I recently tried brass black and love how it turned out.
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Looks great Eric! It has some blues in it that remind me of of potato patina. The OP patina is fabulous, epic actually for a forced patina job, but WADR it's so perfectly done that it reminds me of a factory made peice....it ain't ugly enough! :D

Anyone know if any chemicals put a patina on stainless. I read somewhere about using coffee but never saw the results.
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chemicals?

I've used,
lemon juice
apple peel
lime juice
potato juice

I did a really nice one by stabbing directly into a potato but sanded it off because I personally like apple the best - rubbing the juice form an aple peel on the blade, rice and repeat when it get dry.... for a few days
 
cziv said:
Looks great Eric! It has some blues in it that remind me of of potato patina. The OP patina is fabulous, epic actually for a forced patina job, but WADR it's so perfectly done that it reminds me of a factory made peice....it ain't ugly enough! :D



chemicals?

I've used,
lemon juice
apple peel
lime juice
potato juice

I did a really nice one by stabbing directly into a potato but sanded it off because I personally like apple the best - rubbing the juice form an aple peel on the blade, rice and repeat when it get dry.... for a few days
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Thanks Chuck. It's very dark, mostly black, purple and blue. I like it a lot and hope it will help prevent rust even better than some of the other patinas I've had on it.
As for chemicals, I've used lime/lemon juices, apple, potato, mustard, and vinegar but the only one to easily patina D2 steel is the brass black. I think I'll try it on some Case tru-sharp stainless eventually but I doubt it will do anything.
 
Love it. And the dark spots should lighten, and light spots darken as you use it. get it a bit more natural looking.
 
cziv said:
Looks great Eric! It has some blues in it that remind me of of potato patina. The OP patina is fabulous, epic actually for a forced patina job, but WADR it's so perfectly done that it reminds me of a factory made peice....it ain't ugly enough! :D



chemicals?

I've used,
lemon juice
apple peel
lime juice
potato juice

I did a really nice one by stabbing directly into a potato but sanded it off because I personally like apple the best - rubbing the juice form an aple peel on the blade, rice and repeat when it get dry.... for a few days
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You used these on stainless, what were the results? thx
 
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You used these on stainless, what were the results? thx
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I didn't mean to give that impression Div4gold. I did it on RAT Izula 1095 steel. I forgot about mustard likke hoopster said - good stuff too. :thumbup:
 
Div4gold said:
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You used these on stainless, what were the results? thx
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Stainless wont take a patina like carbon steels.


You can use ferric acid then gun blue to make it darken but it tends to wear off after a while.

Tostig
 
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