[TheForge] Staining stainless

Fri Feb 21 16:24:04 2003

To All.
But then it is not stianless anymore.....

Hochewa

In a message dated 2/20/2003 10:16:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Rick & Kims Email" <[email protected]> writes:

>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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