[TheForge] copper sulfate

Sun Jul 6 01:06:01 2003

Chris:
Copper sulfate is real hard on stuff that lives in water..It used to be 
used by marine specmin collectors in the tidepools, me among them, to 
flush octopi out of their caves...worked real good. Then I returned to 
an area I'd worked a couple of months later and found the stuff had 
killed everything  within 3 or 4 feet of the application. Switched over 
to brine right then.

Shannell Sugrue wrote:

>All I can say is fake it with paint, and there are some great copper, brass
>paints out there, then use a blue, green etc
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Caswell" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: 05 July, 2003 8:13 PM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] copper sulfate
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>>Are you trying to attain  a verdigris color on your copper?  I restore
>>antique lighting and do a fair amount of patinization on mostly brass but
>>some  copper.  We have a verdigris solution, but I cannot think of the
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>>right now.  If you like I will research it on Monday.  By the way,
>>patinization is a real pain in the ass.  I do it almost on a daily basis
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>>rarely do I get the results I want in the first (or even second) try.
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>>Chris Caswell
>>Caswell Wood & Iron
>>Burlington, VT
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Marc V. Davis III (Marc of the Hammer) <[email protected]>
>>To: 1The Forge <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 10:30 PM
>>Subject: [TheForge] copper sulfate
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>>>Ok this is what I did.
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>>>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
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>>then sprayed with the copper sulfate solution.
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>>>I put on 4 or 5 coats when each one dried.
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>>>It had bright copper on some places and dark brown or black in others.
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>So
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>>I rubbed with scotch bright and most of the black rubbed off and some of
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>the
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>>copper. I didn't really scrub it.
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>>>So am I doing it totally wrong or should do it again and just wipe it
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>down
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>>and spray a clear coat over the mess?does it take some time to dry or
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>cure?
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>>I was really going for the green copper effect.
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>>>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>>>Thanks
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>>>signed
>>>Frustrated
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