Patina.

oldmanrunning

oldmanrunning

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For all you patina fans out there this is a Pewter pint pot i received for my twenty first birthday, i had one drink from it then washed it and it has sat on my desk ever since, i have just turned seventy,the #66 Calf Roper is fairly new and has formed a patina without me trying, makes you think dont it ?

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Nice!!!
Here's a pewter salt shaker that my mother-in-law got from an old prospector, she gave it to me when she was in her 80's. The grey patina is very pleasing to the eye, especially on knives.

 
Had to look up the patina of pewter aha/it when new. Really solid even coat due to I imagine that it had never been moved. Nice gift to have been given at 21. I got a can of beer, amazing looking mug. The amount of carbon 0.90 - 1.03 in 1095 steel but that patina that comes on quick is always pleasing to my eye

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Did that can of beer patina any, Tim?

the old Schrade Walden working on a walking stick
 
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One beer in 50yrs?? Aint ya thirsty for another?? :D Just messin with ya!!:thumbup: John
 
I love patina'd blades, it makes me wish all knives weren't stainless! I don't have many pictures of my patina'd knives, but I do love the pattern on the sheepfoot blade of this Craftsman. The main blade is uniformly blackened it is so dark, this lighting just didn't show it well.

 
No one else has a patina on their blade? I mean stainless blades can't be all that popular in today's world....
 
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When I was young, the glass-cleaning facilities in many street-corner pubs were rudimentary to say the least, so drinkers either hung onto the same glass all night or kept their own drinking vessel, usually a tankard, behind the bar. A few places still accept tankards, but it's much less common now, and in my experience, pewter tankards are rather unpleasant to drink out of, I much prefer a clean glass.

I'm sure many posters here will know of the old practice of 'press gangs' slipping the 'King's shilling' into an unsuspecting drinker's tankard, and that for this reason, many adopted glass-bottomed tankards, so that they could see the coin without fishing it out and taking it into their hand. I have my grandfather's glass-bottomed tankard sitting on top of a cupboard in the kitchen, and it looks like he might have got in a few fights with it! :D Unfortunately, in later life my grandmother, through one of her numerous old pals in the cutlery trade, started having things 'dipped' at one of the factories where they did silver-plating (EPNS). She had this done with the tankard, which had long been unused, but because of the glass bottom it couldn't be completely submerged, and so on the inside, the silver-plating doesn't go right down to the bottom. I wish she'd just left it alone! :rolleyes:



I love the look of the patina on old tools as well as knives, and sometimes buy old tools I have little use for, simply because they are so beautiful. This is a very old leather workers knife, a Lunette (by Dixon), which I gifted to ScruffUK, the only other example I've seen is in the Birmingham Museum, and that doesn't have the original sheath, as this one.



I wasn't sure what this knife was when I bought it, but it turns out to be a mortician's Heavy-Cartilage Knife (by Thackray of Leeds), so the patina has something of the macabre about it! :eek:
 
Ew.
I didn't know that stuff about the tankards, though we used to do something similar at the barber's. And I thought the glass bottom was so people couldn't sneak up on you. Nice we have you to preserve this lore.
 
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Ew.
I didn't know that stuff about the tankards, though we used to do something similar at the barber's. And I thought the glass bottom was so people couldn't sneak up on you. Nice we have you to preserve this lore.
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Thanks pal, my elders always reckoned everything went in one ear and straight out the other, but some of it must have stuck! ;) :D

I've just come across an old pic of the tankard bottom, with 'last drop' motif :thumbup:

 
I'd like to be able to post some information about the 'last drop' design, but having spent most of the day dealing with 'Error 524' I'm giving up :grumpy:
 
I'm very unbending when it comes to what I drink out of, metal of any sort and drinks don't match in my book. When it comes to tea, coffee, chocolate and suchlike I won't touch them in one of those 'disposable' things that people walk around with. :( A very large ceramic cup for me, no mugs.

I digress. But the OP's initial post does give food for thought. Patina through Use is a delightful constantly changing thing. Knives that don't get much use (apart from carefully stored safe queen time capsules..) soon start to look (and sometimes smell..) pretty sorry, lustreless handles, potential rust spotting, brass greening, dull edges :eek:

Here's some relatively young patina, it's been on and off a few times, scotchbrited and then allowed to form again, a kind of pink colour in places. GEC Ebony White Owl:

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Will like you i can not abide metal drinking mugs, hence why that pewter number has been sitting on my desk for so long, no for me it is a proper cup and saucer for tea and a slightly larger one for coffee, except for my elder brother the rest of our family seem to have those nasty mug trees on their kitchen counters, makes me shudder just typing it. Anyway back to knives, i just checked my GEC Ebony White Owl and it is shiny bright, i go through phases of liking or not liking patina but i found a picture of it as a patina was starting to form.

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OMR.
 
I've had this GEC for coming up on two years, just recently took down the patina to a nice uniform grey with barkeeper's friend. Should be a nice base for further development:

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