[TheForge] pitted rust

[gladish]

What if you heated it up and nicked it all over with a slag hammer or even a
small ball-peen and then rusted the heck out of it with sea water?
Kind of like the whip/chain "antiqueing" that they do on furniture...
Andy G.

> I have a client who would like me to duplicate the rust finish found on
> an old piece of ~ 2" pipe.
> This guy is very picky and I've tried several textures which have been
> rejected.
> The difficulty is that this is some serious rust. I think this sample
> of pipe was buried in  the ground for many years. Its surface is
> covered with small pits maybe 3/23" average diameter and about 1/32
> deep. i.e. it's a fairly heavily pitted rusty surface. I am imagining
> the corrosion process could develop this way when grains of varying
> composition and size sand/minerals of the ground being pressed against
> the pipe.