[TheForge] Staining stainless

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Phlip wrote:

>One of the things I find utterly jarring in the SCA is the usage of
>stainless steel for armor- aqs you know, it kinda glares out at you. I
>understand why they do it, they're trying to minimize equipment maintenance,
>but I was hoping you guys might have some ideas to make it look more like
>Real Steel (tm) without losing its stainless/rust-proof characteristics. One
>suggestion was to use a light coating of ferric chloride- any others?
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Gunsmithing supply houses sell a chemical for giving stainless a blue 
black color as I recall.  This would probably be optimal.  

Charles