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Clean the Brassīefore antiquing brass, you need to know the best way to clean brass first.

Brass darkening how to#

We show you how to determine whether you’re working with solid brass or plating, and you’ll also get our best methods for cleaning dirt, grime, verdigris, and lacquer off of your brass pieces before you tarnish them. This section walks you through the brass preparation process to get ready for tarnishing. Before you can create tarnish, though, you need to know how to prepare brass. You can cause tarnish to develop by forcing your brass fixtures to oxidize through various methods. Tarnish arrests oxidation and prevents further decay. Raw brass oxidizes in a hurry, and this process causes tarnish to develop. In order to know the best way to tarnish brass, we first need to look at what tarnish is, and how it works and forms. Making brass look old is not a difficult process but there are some steps to follow to make sure you do it correctly.

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Here is a stock picture of what the amp jewel looked like when I got it and pretty much what it looked like when I put it in the solution. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but this is not going on a vintage amp to look like natural wear, it's going on an old speaker box amp build I'm working on where I want it to look old and dirty like it sat in a barn for a century. The amplifier jewel came out black too but had some weird coloring on it too, when I wiped the solution off of the piece some of the black flaked off to reveal a slightly golden brass look (my original intent!) and the rest is just an old dirty scuffed black look, it definitely looks old to me. The screw seems to be pretty durable as far as the black goes, it's a matte black with just a little shine on the edges. I left them both in until they were jet black. Ok, here is a picture of one of the brass plated screws that I lightly scuffed with some red 3M scotchbrite and revealed that it was just a light brass plating on top, and an amplifier jewel scuffed the same but was just a bright metal no plating on that one. The directions say to immerse in water and baking soda solution to neutralize the "acidic effect" so I guess it's some kind of acid FYI. I have not tested to see how durable it is (I suspect it's not that great) but I just thought I'd throw this out there. Or, if you can't find black hardware you could always let your parts sit in the solution until they are thoroughly blackened.

I'm not much for relics, but this product might give you a different look that would look good on one of those projects. The directions say you can use #0000 steel wool to knock some of the darkened area off for highlights if you want that look. I took some other pieces out at different lengths of time and they had some splotchy black areas (mostly in scratches or low areas) but with metal highlights in other areas. However, the steel underneath got progressively darker as I let it sit in the solution until it was completely BLACK. I have some brass screws that I was trying to make look antique but they turned out to be just plated so they didn't darken correctly like real brass would have. I was at a local woodworking store yesterday and found a product called Brass Darkening Solution by WSI Distributors and I have to say it's the BOMB! It actually didn't do what I wanted but did something else that is useful.

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