Mushroom Patina?

Lycosa

Lycosa

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Daniel- Give this a try.
Mushrooms are funky and when they die, some turn jet black. You catch my drift.
rolf
 
Blackness isn't a color. It's the absence of color. There's an absence of an organic black tanto. I see things so clearly now.
 
Kevin... keeeeeewl. :D
Thank you for that reply, tho. Very deep yet clear.
I am half tempted to try this with a sodbuster of mine.
 
So are you getting some trippy patterns off of those shrooms? Patina I mean... :D

All jokes aside I have to try that, I used a Grapefruit for patina on some early knives that looked really cool.
 
So are you getting some trippy patterns off of those shrooms? Patina I mean... :D

All jokes aside I have to try that, I used a Grapefruit for patina on some early knives that looked really cool.
 
I remember those grapefruit patina knives you did, they were pretty cool.

Basically anything with some acid in it will patina the steel. Acetic acid and citric acid are probably the most common and safe to use.

Rolf, try rusting it with an acid, allow it to get a velvet coating of red rust(high humidity and temp, like in the bathroom with the shower running), card it off with fine steel wool then boil in distilled water. Repeat several times. This is a very old method, gives that very deep blue/black look.

-X
 
Hi Kevin! I will have my Sodbuster today so I will try it and lyk.
Thanks.
 
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