Home Patina Concoctions for Copper ?

A few years ago I "gilded a turd" by putting a sheet copper pitched roof on the bird feeder we were using then.

I rubbed a little "Dunton tinners fluid" (acid soldering flux) from a bottle I'd had around forever onto the copper and left it for a few days.

I got a nice greenish patina that way.

I looked for the Dunton company just now but found only this:

But this eBay store seems to have lots of patina creating chemicals:

HTH,

Jeff

Wasn't it tradition around the rec. to holler "cat pee" every time the subject of patina or rust came up?

:-)

Cheers Trevor Jones

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That was Teenut (Robert Bastow) -- a much missed poster.

And it was specifically suggested for copper.

Enjoy, DoN.

Awesome link.....

Thanks,

/MM

These patina ideas are pretty good. I see however, that 'patina' and 'colouring' are two completely different things when it comes to copper.

As I was writing my last reply, I just happened to find this site "

" (can't believe I actually missed this one !) and I gotta say, "These are some pretty talented people" ! This is EXACTLY the kind of thing I'm looking at doing... (Of course at a very "amateur level"). Their stuff is amazing but I'm not so sure that any of this stuff really qualifies as a "patina". It looks to me like this stuff is "Flame-Coloured" with an O/A torch or something like that.....

I wonder if a Prestolite O/A "Little Torch" would be enough tool to get that kind of effect ?

Cheers,

/MM