[TheForge] Rust Patina Finish

Sun Aug 10 15:24:01 2003

These would be for indoor pieces, furniture mostly. .  I have used salt
water for outdoor stuff and coated over it, which worked well.  Has anyone
here ever tried carding the loose rust off and then re applying the
solution, similar to the techniques used in cold-rust bluing SxS shotguns?
I was wondering if the carding between coats of solution might allow for a
more uniform buildup of evenly colored rust.  Has anyone tried this?

Grant

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From: "RIES NIEMI" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Rust Patina Finish

> Grant- you dont say if this is for an interior or exterior use. For
outside,
> if you just want rusty, I would go with clyde's suggestions.
> However, if it is for an interior application, then you have the added
> problems of getting it to stop rusting, and not get rust all over everyone
> and everything.
> I used to do a line of furniture with a rust finish, and we found that
rust
> never sleeps, and it never stops. So I would use the mildest solution
> possible- usually just some rock salt dissolved in water, sprayed from an
> old windex bottle. After leaving it on for just a couple of hours, I would
> rinse with water. Some people acutally use a baking soda rinse as well.
> Then I would have the pieces clearcoated. On smaller pieces I would just
> spray clear Krylon spray paint. It lasts a year or so, then needs to be
> recoated. I had some pieces sprayed with catalysed polyurethane, baked on.
> That worked pretty well- the rust would kind of overwhelm the coating
after
> 5 years or so, but it never was dusty, flaky rust.
> The other finish I used a lot was clear powdercoat- low gloss- 20% gloss I
> think. That works real well, encapsulates the rust, but powder is pretty
> thick, so its noticeable that there is a coating on it.
>
> ries
>
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