Art & Inspiration Patina on polished copper

A friend of mine polished some of the copper on his car and then changed his mind. Is there any way to hasten going from the shine shown on the top to the patina on the bottom?
Charlie Stephens

 

Yup google how to tarnish copper. There are a variety of solutions that can be made that will tarnish it.

 

My pops used to do stained glass back in the late seventies. I remember him using olic acid on the soldered joints to tarnish them. Its a real mild acid.

 

Sheez. I know how to turn copper green. These yahoos down here, take an 80,000 dollar copper roof, and let another equally yahoo-ee yahoo ..... hit the copper tiles dramatically with muriatic acid. Made me sick.

Like Rusty Rocket said. ^^^ acid. Try not to be a yahoo though. Mild is the word. You can always add another treatment, to get where you want.

 

Hey, uh Rusty. Mind Acid isn't traditional since it was more of a late 60's early 70's things.

 

My copper roof turned dark brown all by itself. Patience.

Pat

 

Living here in Florida the salt and moisture in the air wreck a lot of things that are copper.
Everything I have that is copper gets a thin coat of grease and it always looks good.
Just protect anything that you value with a thin layer of grease so that the air and what's in it can't get to the copper.

Jimbo

 

Bleach and vinegar work pretty well.

 

Had an antique dealer tell me she would wipe her kids wet diaper on it. Guess all you have to do is piss on it. I've got some copper gutters I've been waiting 15 years for them to turn green, we don't have acid rain here like back east where they turn green instead of the brown I've got. If he's serious google Birchwood Casey, they make antiquing solutions.

 

whats patina....something like stance?

 

Polite name for crud, tarnish, bird shit & corrosion.

 

Ha ha!!! Shit you would have though I was on it! There I fixed it.

 

When they were spiffing up the Statue of Liberty a few years ago, workmen pissing on the side of her added a lot of patina.

 

I absolutely hate "stance"

but I can't think of another simple word to use that relates to the attitude of car created by its wheels tire's ride height rake, wheel base and track width all I'm a syllable or two.

My bigger question is why vagina does not rhyme with patina

 

That was awesome!

 

Look into liver of sulfur, that should darken up the copper


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