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First of all, I am still learning all of these techniques myself and by far am not a pro at this. These are things I just like to learn to do on a whim...I cant seem to get enough of this stuff out of my head, I just like to play a lot. In fact, I tell my friends that when I am ready to retire ( unfortunately I have some time before that happens), I will never be bored. I have so much STUFF...Im glad my husband loves me...heheheLiver of Sulfur - I like to use the liquid type. Its not terribly expensive, but is messy and smelly and I found you have to order it and you cant just buy it in the stores. You get instant results. You get a black finish.
Vinegar - cheap and smelly and in every grocery store. You have to wait over night or longer to get nice results. You get a nice deeper warm copper color.
Below are images of the steps I took to create these beautiful earrings...well..without the ear wires..I need to make those still.
I dont remember exactly where I learned how to use the Vinegar technique, either I read it somewhere of I was told by somebody to give it a try. What I did was put a glass bowl inside of a rubber maid bowl. You do not want to submerge the copper in the vinegar. The fumes are what patinas the copper. Once I had the bowl set up, I added the vinegar, just enough to fill it up some, you dont need a ton of vinegar. I put the copper pieces in the glass bowl, sealed it with the lid, or you can probably use saran wrap.
I waited over night, roughly 12 hrs from the time I put it in the bowl to the time I took them out.
Dont look at my poorly manicured thumb..I am way overdue for a manicure, like maybe 15 years...LOL
This is the final piece. I am going to put a nice pretty glossy spray sealer on them and they will be ready to wear! Well..once I get the ear wires made...Hehehe...
I hope you enjoyed this little blurp of mine and dont forget to leave any comments, good bad or other...
Thank you for stopping by and I hope to get a few more little blurps out before the end of the year...
Enjoy your summer..
Chris
UPDATE: I just did the same treatment to some other pieces of copper and found that if you leave it in long enough, the vinegar starts to sweat leaving a small amount of liquid onto the pieces. After checking them out a few hours later, they started turning green...I love it! I will show you a picture soon to how the pieces turned out!
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