Bluing concoctions

[Philip Chua]

Pics of a couple I’m working on. Will post a YouTube video eventually. These are sections from a DP Enfield barrel cut,stripped,and boiled. I’ll prob brown then card the next day followed by another boil then another coat

 

[Gtrubicon]

Are you just experimenting with the barrel cut offs or are you making something out of them?

 

[Phil Coffins]

Good experiment, here’s a Lyman that I did with Plum Brown and boiling.
IMG_0536 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr

 

[kyron4]

That's beautiful Phil, I have also had good results with rust bluing with BC Plum Brown.

 

[Philip Chua]

Are you just experimenting with the barrel cut offs or are you making something out of them?

Just experimenting with them. They are ready to re-strip for the next concoctions

 

[Philip Chua]

Pics of a couple I’m working on. Will post a YouTube video eventually. These are sections from a DP Enfield barrel cut,stripped,and boiled. I’ll prob brown then card the next day followed by another boil then another coat

Left one is ferric chloride + copper sulfate + ethanol/nitric acid + distilled water.
Right one is same mix plus antimony trichloride (which I have to remake because it also prob has some of the non-stick from the pan which dissolved in the process. Glass cookware on order from Amazon..