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Homemade browning agent for antique brass/bronze




I have some new brass and bronze parts. I need to antique them to match original dull chocolate brown. any homemade solutions? also finished parts will be clear coated.

Ken Stephens
antique restoration - Saint Ignace, Michigan, USA
2007


Try www.thelitterbox.org website-there you can find 7 download free techno-chemical recipe handbooks(chapters on metal colouring),or www.archive.org/- old handbook on metal colouring by A.Hiorns,one old American handbook on same subject,or Langbeins handbook on electroplating(very good chapter on metal colouring)!Hope it helps and good luck!

Goran Budija
- Cerovski vrh Croatia
2007




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