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How to give brass an antique finish - the tigergirl way
So, I had a question asked of me - "do you stock antique brass wire, or know where I can get it", unfortunately, my answers were "No" and "No" - well, I wasn't quite that abrupt but same effect. So this got me to thinking, in all of my metalsmithing, jewelry and craft books, surely I could find the answer, almost certainly "The Jeweler's Bench Reference" would have it. Well, of course not, it tells me how to turn it many colours ( green, dark green, sage green, black, yellow to red, dead black) with various chemicals that I don't exactly keep in the kitchen cupboard (last I checked there wasn't any caustic soda in there), but not just a plain old antique brass colour. Goodness knows, some of the charms I stock at http://tigergirlSupplies.etsy.com and http://en.dawanda.com/shop/tigergirlsupplies are a nice antique brass but that's just because they've been around for years and years - who wants to wait years for something to naturally get the antique patina?? I found a website that told me I had to use a proprietary product, hmmm, not that helpful. Well, it was time for an experiment, you might want to print this out because it's very complicated and needs to be extremely precise.
Supplies:
1 Pour of bleach
1 Squirt of lemon juice (fresh juice can be used)
2 Empty yoghurt containers (fairly clean)
3 Brass charms
Method:
Take one yoghurt container and pour in some bleach.
Take the other yoghurt container and squirt some lemon juice into it.
Drop a brass charm in each yoghurt container.
Leave overnight in the laundry (another room might work just as well). Next morning, take the charms out, rinse them, dry them and compare them to the 'control' charm. Result:
Lemon juice - deadened some of the yellow and made it look a bit more like rose gold.
Bleach - made it go a really dark brown.
in the pics the lemon juice charm is on the left, control is in the centre and bleach is on the left
Addendum:
I believe that if I'd experimented with a combination of water and bleach I would probably have got the lighter brown - try it!
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Contributor's Note
This originally appeared in my blog - http://tigergirletsy.blogspot.com
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