Vinegar Patina

[Daerir]

Well I was bored so I decided to add a patina to my Cold Steel thrower. It came out pretty good. A nice, splattered, grey look. I figured, its a throwing knife, its gonna be hard to keep shiny anyway so what the heck. I think I might also do it with my seax, since I messed it up today and had to tear off my handle -_-

[Sindara]

I really like the way that looks - like it's used, often - not something stuck away for show! Just vinegar? How applied - just rubbed on?

[Daerir]

I really like the way that looks - like it's used, often - not something stuck away for show! Just vinegar? How applied - just rubbed on?

Well I tried to do mustard first but it didn't work, I don't think I had enough on. So I got a cookie sheet (couldn't find anything else that would hold the monster) and just let vinegar soak on it for about 1-2 hours and it was greyed.

[wulfgar]

I used vineger on a Cold Steel pipe hawk. At first I soaked it cold for a couple of days and not much happened and what did just rubben off. Then I thought "Hmmm what if I add some heat as a catalyst?" So I put the head in an enamel ware pan with some vinegar on the camp stove and turned up the heat. After awhile,,,not really sure how long,,, I pulled it out. The metal was much darker and know the finish doesn't rub off.

[Daerir]

Did you degrease it first?

[wulfgar]

Did you degrease it first?

I did wipe it down with alcohol first.

[Daerir]

That's a head scratcher. I'm not sure why that did that