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Title: Coloring Brass to an Antique Brown - New Brirchwood Casey Product
Post by: roundball on November 20, 2009, 04:09:10 PM
Looks very promising...I'm going to order a bottle and see how it works...

http://www.birchwoodcasey.com/news/4889.html
Title: Re: Coloring Brass to an Antique Brown - New Brirchwood Casey Product
Post by: graybear on November 20, 2009, 06:49:49 PM
Let us know the results. I'm sure several of us here are interested in speeding up the aging of shiny brass. 
Title: Re: Coloring Brass to an Antique Brown - New Brirchwood Casey Product
Post by: freedom475 on November 21, 2009, 03:29:44 AM
I use plain old Cold Blue... it works great and leaves a nice, almost case hardened finsh if you work with it...

A lot of brass has a plastic coating on it so it has to be removed before the tarnish will take.
Title: Re: Coloring Brass to an Antique Brown - New Brirchwood Casey Product
Post by: roundball on November 21, 2009, 01:09:54 PM

http://www.birchwoodcasey.com/news/4889.html

What appeals to me about the new Birchwood-Casey product...and this is based upon a discussion yesterday with someone at an antique metal finishing business who has used it...is that its already mixed, simple and quick to use...and it's not a coating which could rub off like 'Brass Black' does.

I found it can be ordered here...scroll about halfway down until you come to the Antique Brown M38.
It's available in 1/2 pint sizes, liquid or gel, for $14...I ordered a small bottle of each to try. 

http://www.sculpt.com/catalog_98/patina/birchpatina1.htm
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