[TheForge] pitted rust

[Ries Niemi]

Cameron- you have gotten lots of recipes for chemical processes, and 
some ideas for doing it hot. It all depends on how big a project it is, 
but another idea, which might work is to have the piece shot blasted 
after it is finished. When I lived in LA, I used to take a lot of work 
to a really big industrial sandblaster- National Sandblasters- really 
great guys.
In addition to sand blasting and glass bead blasting, they were set up 
to do both steel grit and steel shot blasting. Big huge guns, 150hp 
compressors, and steel shot as big as small ball bearings speeding at 
the metal at hundreds of miles an hour.
Makes a nice, highly pitted surface.
So if you are near a city that might have a big sandblasting company, 
its another alternative. Quick, clean, no chemicals, but you have to 
pay someone else to do it.

ries