docteurseb
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Got some cheap nickel silver covers that got delivered today, and wanted to try doing burnt covers for an upcoming build.
Found some good guidance here:
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/how-to-make-burnt-chrome-pickup-covers.1689435/
I used a cooking torch, great for crèmes brûlées.
It took a few trials to get the desired effect, I used sandpaper to clean up and start from scratch whenever I messed up.
As it heats up the color seems to go yellow, pink/copper, purple, then blue. Keep heating up and it goes back more or less to silver and develops a fairly unappealing surface with spots here and there.
It does look decently blue at the right angle but is otherwise extremely faint.
It's also not resistant at all: polish ever so slightly and the oxidized layer is gone:
This got me hungry, I might go make crèmes brûlées...
Found some good guidance here:
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/how-to-make-burnt-chrome-pickup-covers.1689435/
I used a cooking torch, great for crèmes brûlées.
It took a few trials to get the desired effect, I used sandpaper to clean up and start from scratch whenever I messed up.
As it heats up the color seems to go yellow, pink/copper, purple, then blue. Keep heating up and it goes back more or less to silver and develops a fairly unappealing surface with spots here and there.
It does look decently blue at the right angle but is otherwise extremely faint.
It's also not resistant at all: polish ever so slightly and the oxidized layer is gone:
This got me hungry, I might go make crèmes brûlées...