[TheForge] brown stuff

[April & Bill Clemens]

Here's a barrel browning solution from Foxfire Books:
http://members.aol.com/illinewek/faqs/browning.htm

Bill Clemens
Hound and Hare Forge
New Columbia, Pa

Gladish Family wrote:

>Who has a secret recipe for browning steel that they'd like to share with
>their 250 best friends?
>Went into the house and garden store that I wholesale to and they said that
>the hot color for this year is brown.
>She showed me some imported stuff that was getting good response. It's not
>really a rust brown, it's more like brown paint or something- flat, sort of
>burnt sienna ish. But doesn't really look like paint, either. It looks
>thinner than a latex paint and more matte than most oils.
>I'd rather power brush and lacquer it all, but this is about what the ladies
>want...
>TIA,
>Andy G.
>Guemes Island, WA
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