[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 90, Issue 11

[Ekaterina Harrison]

Hi Paul,

I, too, have been lurking for a while on this list. Actually I have  
had my hands really full of projects and have not kept up with many of  
the posts. Your post caught my interest, the other day.

  I really want to try this on one of my sculptures. I have a piece  
that I originally hot waxed, as I intended the piece to be indoors,  
however at this point I am realizing that the piece really needs to be  
outdoors. this sounds like it might be the ticket.

When you do your garlic olive oil finish do you apply it hot or cold?  
Also, what are your approximate proportions of garlic to oil? and have  
you ever tried this finish over existing finishes?

Thanks, I am really excited to give this a try!

Ekaterina


On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:00 AM, theforge-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:55:20 -0500
> From: Paul Tomlinson <paul at fongkong.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Rust-proofing mild steel - accidental
> 	discovery
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> Hi Peter,
>
> I used plain olive oil, it works but no better than mineral oil. The
> garlic is what does the trick.
>
> Commercial sprays would never have the amount garlic I have in mine,
> but try it and see, how can it hurt.
>
> and as you say 'vampires be gone!'
>
> Paul
>
>
> At 02:07 PM 2011.07.08, you wrote:
>> I like it Paul!
>> It'd be interesting to run a side by side test with and without  
>> garlic.
>> I take it that there is a commercial olive oil and garlic spray in
>> supermarkets?
>> Just put it on the town list.
>> It's traditional to preserve cloves of garlic in olive oil...did it  
>> for years,
>> till i read a report that they'd detected salmonella in some jars.
>> Bet it keeps those pesky vampires off one's forgings too.
>>
>> I've used "Pam" spray on very warm steel as a finish, it lasts a  
>> while.
>>
>> Great discovery and fine style!  Thanks
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Paul Tomlinson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Guys/Gals,
>>>
>>> Greetings from sunny^b^b^b^b^brainy Jamaica! I have been lurking on
>>> and learning from this list for a long time, from even before I went
>>> to Campbell in 2001 to do a week long introductory BS course with  
>>> Dan Tull.
>>>
>>> I really wonder if this will work for anybody else, but it is  
>>> working
>>> on everything I have used it on, and in the rainy season it is so
>>> humid that everything gets mouldy or rusts like blazes!
>>>
>>> Anyway after our last big hurricane my favourite forged sculpture  
>>> was
>>> really rusty and I had an olive oil and garlic salad-spray close at
>>> hand ...! It has not rusted since, its been years, and I handle it
>>> regularly to check if its started to rust yet!
>>>
>>> I now use garlic laced olive oil for anything I don't want to rust -
>>> and none of them do.
>>>
>>> Having  never tried this on clean metal I do not know if it will  
>>> keep
>>> all rust off, but, a surface with a fine coating of rust ends up  
>>> with
>>> a slightly brown patina which I rather like.
>>>
>>> I hope somebody finds this useful,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> PS - I make garlic olive oil by slicing garlic into a bottle of oil.
>>> By the way DO NOT CAP THE BOTTLE TIGHTLY AS THERE IS A REACTION THAT
>>> RELEASES LOTS OF GAS OVER A WEEK OR TWO!
>>