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-----How to tarnish/age nickel plated furniture spots
What would be the best way to tarnish or age nickel plated furniture studs? They are really shiny and I just want to have them look dull. They are loose and not currently on the furniture yet.
Ashleydesigner - Tracy, California, USA
2006
2006
Immersion black nickel:
potassium thiocyanate
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eBay
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Amazon [affil link]
....6 gm
sodium sulphate..........100 gm
ammonium persulphate.....200 gm
ferric sulphate..........10 gm
water....................1 lit
pH 1-2,instead persulphate you can use
hydrogen peroxide
according to Fishlock: Metal Colouring, Teddington 1962.
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