How to Force a Patina Using Vinegar & Salt | Aging & Antiquing Brass
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In this video, I'll show you how to antique a brass flashlight using vinegar and salt. This is a great, easy way to give your brass hardware a beautiful patina, even if it's brand new.
Gear in this video:
Reylight Pineapple Mini (Brass): a.co/d/gxE908K
If you have sown tweezers with thin tips it's possible to remove all the electrical elements. That's why Iobe the reylights. So if want to force the patina the way hard way it's possible to do that too without affecting the electric parts. Thats a good thing if you have one in titanium for example and want to anodize it.
Only downside for me is the clip. Would be cool to have it in same material
I'm pretty happy with what I ended up with. I like the contrast of the clip with the natural brass
I would like to see more patina, because I'm looking to darken brass hardware like buckles. Can you expand on the aging of brass?
The longer you leave it in the "chamber" the stronger the patina will look. I only took mine out because I wanted to get it started and let it happen naturally after that. It's much darker now.
Hơw can I do it with a table top that is very big ?
You have a brass tabletop?
Does this work for stainless steel items?
It would not. The idea for this technique is to tarnish the metal. The nature of stainless steel is to not tarnish. However, if it did start to tarnish, it would just rust.
Could I use this method with a light fixture?
If it's brass, then yes.
Can you do this also in copper?
Brass is a combination of copper and zinc, and the copper is what causes the patina. You should be able to do this same thing with copper, but the effect will take faster than brass.
so what does the salt do?
The salt is a catalyst for oxidation.
Lol my brass looks like that after one day of using a flashlight
It had a clear coat over it that protected it from getting a patina. I stripped that before doing this so it would be able to take effect well.
@@edc.kansan ah, I haven’t ever had this specific flashlight so I did not know it came with a clear coat. What an odd thing to do to an edc flash light (clear coat it from the factory that is)
@@TheBootyWrangler I totally agree. I was wondering why it was taking soooo long to patina, then I realized it was probably never going to without me stripping it.
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