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Patina for Food Grade tin containers

Whimseys - Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 7:59pm

Newbie here,
I want to age and or add a patina to some food grade tin containers I have. Thanks for any help.

CuSn8, CuSn10, CuSn20 bronze sheet suppliers (preferably 24"X24" sheets)

arielcee - Saturday, July 16, 2011 - 3:39pm

I am looking for any suppliers who have 24" X 24" 1-2 mm thick sheets of cusn8, cusn10, cusn20, or any of the in between, phosphor bronze. I am a aspiring cymbal smith and, aside from ordering B20-cusn20 blanks from turkey, I haven't been able to come across any sort of sheets of these alloys. I have tried National Bronze Metals, but to no avail. Any suggestions or recommendations would be much appreciated.

rusting steel/ tin

rredd - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 10:23am

rust patina | steel | tin

Hi everyone.

Im needing a bit advice please on rusting metal quickly. I discovered this site a few weeks ago as I was looking for tips which I found in your forums. I also just want to say it is a fantastic site and I spent ages browsing everyones work rather than doing my own work, lol. You produce some fantastic pieces.

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90% Copper 10% Tin Bronze source?

Gavaksa - Monday, May 19, 2008 - 1:49pm

Hey all,

I'm trying to get ahold of straight 90/10 CuSn Bronze for some bronze age tools and experiments. C90700 Phosphur Bronze is about as close as I can come to it with a commercially available product. I was thinking of simply smelting my own, but the cost of copper is just insane right now. $7.67 per pound for copper is just nuts.