patina

[hayday]

Here is my brass Armida yesterday



and here it is after a seven hour soak in lemon juice.



That patina is partly from the Mediterranean (a beach off Nice, sweating in Rome, and kayaking off Montenegro) and a trip to Honduras. Now that it's clean I think I'm ready for some new adventures.

[skywatch]

but... but... isn't that the point of a bronze watch?

[tribe125]

Now that it's clean I think I'm ready for some new adventures.

Wherever you go, take a lemon.

[Seriously]

That patina is partly from the Mediterranean (a beach off Nice, sweating in Rome, and kayaking off Montenegro) and a trip to Honduras.

[hayday]

but... but... isn't that the point of a bronze watch?

It can be. My original plan was to do nothing to it and just let the patina go. But, then I thought it looked a little TOO patina'd so I washed some of it off. The color is quite different than it was when I originally got it. I like the softer look.

[hayday]

That's all the internet is. A giant bring and brag. And those trips weren't all in one year. That's several summers worth of travel.

[chuckmiller]

...and here it is after a seven hour soak in lemon juice.

Would this be akin to an acid bath?

[hayday]

Citric acid, yeah.

[Seriously]

and those trips weren't all in one year. That's several summers worth of travel.

Ahhh Thank phew, I thought they were paying you too much for all in one year

[geoffbot]

That's very cool.