Small containers

[coloradoclyde]

What’s the best way to age or patina these shiny new boxes please?

Make char cloth in it....in a campfire not too hot though....

 

[Sunkmanitu Tanka]

I throw them in my fire. Check regularly to not over heat them, take them out and clean up... That really does the trick!

 

[smo]

What’s the best way to age or patina these shiny new boxes please?

Make char cloth in it....in a campfire not too hot though....

Winner , Winner Chicken Dinner!

Or if you don’t want to poke a vent hole in it you can just put both halves in the fire
Cook to medium rare, serve with leather gloves, if you hide not tough enough to handle the heat. :rotf:

 

[Black Hand]

What’s the best way to age or patina these shiny new boxes please?

Cold blue should work - though only on the outside, if you plan to use them for food items. You may need to scuff the outside with fine sandpaper or steel wool if they have been coated with a protective finish. Alternately, you can color them by heating with a propane torch.

 

[Redstick Lee]

I use the Figis jelly sampler jars (1 oz.?) for my wax/oil lube mix......just right for my Possible bag

 

[hawkeye2]

A big +1 for Black Hand's cold blue sugestion. I can say from experience it works very well.

 

[rodwha]

Something like this?

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I use the jar for cigar glue when I tried my hand at hand rolling my own (Christmas gift).

 

[SgtMaj65]

I use a really old Sucrets tin. After removing the paint and applying several coats of flat black enamel, it's still holding up after 40-plus years.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

When I first started muzzle loading in 1972, I used plastic 22 ammo boxes that my rifle teams' Canuck ammo came in. I was still using some in my range box up until 3 years ago.

 

[Twisted_1in66]

I actually used those old Altoids cans before they started embossing them. I'd just take a butane torch to them and burn off the paint. They definitely looked old after cooking all that paint off of them. Now days you have to set the lid over a small anvil or something else really solid to hammer out the embossing before you flame them.

On the brand new shiny tin containers, cold blue is a better choice.

twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:
Dan