[TheForge] Staining stainless

Thu Feb 20 22:20:01 2003

Phlip,
Stainless will go thru the oxidation colors as it is heated.  If you
take it all the way to black, the scale is very fine and does not fall
off.  One the other hand, you stop at purple.

Rick Korinek
Emerald City Forge
Framingham, MA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phlip" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Staining stainless

> This discussion originally started on my EKMetalsmith's List, and I
thought
> I'd ask you guys, since you're such a pool of know-it, er, I mean,
knowledge
> ;-)
>
> 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?
> Caution should be used with anything involving heat treatments,
since the
> most obvious piece of armor involved are their helms- standard is 12
guage-
> and we need to protect the few brain cells the fighters have left
;-)
>
> Phlip, who kinda wonders about people who deliberately go out to get
beat on
> by big sticks in the name of "Fun".
>
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not
a
> cat.
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
>
>
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