[TheForge] copper sulfate

Sat Jul 5 00:46:01 2003

If you seal it up in some plastic w/ some amonia over night I believe it
will turn mostly blue.
I did this several years ago on a sample for a customer , they didn't like
it so I did something else and kinda forgot the exact color, but it did look
like an corroded piece of copper.
Randy Mundt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc V. Davis III (Marc of the Hammer)" <[email protected]>
To: "1The Forge" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 8:30 PM
Subject: [TheForge] copper sulfate

Ok this is what I did.

I put copper sulfate into warm water until it would hold no more.
I sand blasted the table and squirted it with phosphoric acid, let dry and
then sprayed with the copper sulfate solution.

I put on 4 or 5 coats when each one dried.

It had bright copper on some places and dark brown or black in others. So I
rubbed with scotch bright and most of the black rubbed off and some of the
copper. I didn't really scrub it.

So am I doing it totally wrong or should do it again and just wipe it down
and spray a clear coat over the mess?does it take some time to dry or cure?
I was really going for the green copper effect.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

signed
Frustrated

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