[TheForge] Garlic & Olive oil, again

[Jerry Frost]

Eating a lot of garlic makes a person less tasty to mosquitos, same as 
vitamin B. Garlic oil is used to keep mosquitos from breeding in ponds, a 
few drops will do for a surprisingly large pond, kills the larvae quick.

I don't know about the patination properties of selenium but sulfer can do 
interesting things to colors. My best blind luck patina was using amonia 
with a surfacant to dampen sawdust, leaves, moose turds, grass, etc. to do a 
raku patina on copper. The amonia and veg material gave me several candy 
orange, red and yellow results, they seriously looked like hard candy 
colors. Too bad I couldn't get a consistant effect, other amonias don't do 
it and I haven't found the milky stuff with the surfacant since.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter fels" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Garlic & Olive oil, again


> Somewhere in the back of my fuzzy brain is a reference to garlic being a 
> mosquito repellant
> because it causes one to sweat off the selenium sulfide it contains.
> That might explain it's patination virtues.
> Yes, it's pressed, concentrated garlic oil that i got and i'm a little 
> wary of even opening the wee bottle.
>
> On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>
>> The stuff I had and was talking about back when was pressed oil. I 
>> suppose
>> there are other extraction procsses but I don't know what they are. The 
>> one
>> bottle lasted me years and was a really interesting copper alloy patina
>> agent.
>>
>> Jer