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Valerie Rock - Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 12:52am

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HELP?

visitor - Monday, May 14, 2007 - 1:57am

I just finished casting a bronze piece, now I am trying to patina.

How can I get a pale blue?

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pale blue patina

don thibodeaux - Monday, May 14, 2007 - 4:25pm

I've heard large cat urine creates a pale bluish patina. If you have a zoo near you try getting some tiger or lion urine. Maybe some soaked kitty litter would work.?

Don T.

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warren - Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 5:31pm

Is it that cats have more stuff in their urine than anybody else, because I used my urine on a few pieces and turned a nice pale blue.

warren

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pale blue patina

don thibodeaux - Friday, May 18, 2007 - 8:45pm

I don't know, maybe. It's just that I do alot of work for a conservator, from Greece, and he tells me these little secrets from time to time. I wonder, if you took a sample piece of copper, put it on the bottom of a cat box, if that would give you a measure to go by. But, then again,circa 1972: my dad had access to the tigers at the Detroit Zoo, but he wasn't into patinas if you had access to a zoo,...