- This page is intended for those many callers who
ask something like: "I want to put a red (brown,
black, green) patina on my copper (brass) statuary
(mailboxes, gutters, sun dials)".
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- Related letters already
posted
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- This question has been the topic of almost
countless letters here. See letters
#790,
838,
982,
1198,
1215,
1783,
2378,
2433,
2526,
2662,
2850,
3055 for the
first dozen as a start, or
Search the Site for
many more.
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- Additional resources on
line
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- See Tom
Pullizzi's notes on a patina formula from
The Canning
Handbook
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- But if you have a serious
interest in patinizing. . .
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- There are hundreds of different colors of patinas
possible and it is impossible to verbally describe
them. So you may want to borrow from your library or
buy:
The Colouring, Bronzing, and
Patination of Metals by Richard Hughes, and
Michael Rowe--which contains 200+ color plates and
a thousand formulas.
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