I watched this a second time, now I understand. Very nice technique. Thank you for a good demo. A bit more clarity on the coating would have been nice. Thank you! The results are spectacular.
If one were to do this to a bicycle frame, would you recommend completely covering with Copper Plate, then spraying Torch and heating in sections or dousing the whole thing then heating the whole thing? Thank you. Looks like some amazing products.
Bicycle frames are typically made of aluminum, the Torch patina does not work on aluminum. If you are working with a steel frame, then yes I would dose the whole thing with Copper Plating and then go in with the Torch patina - no heat required for that.
@@sculptnouveau Thanks. I mainly deal with BMX frames which are partially hi-ten or full cromoly. I recently etched my frame with ferric acid. But, obviously I'd like to use less dangerous materials so I could do it more often and try different finishes, which lead me to you. I'm definitely going to try some of these products in the near future.
We did that to help get the initial coat going. Using the heat gun in this method is a more random way to force the reaction. We didn't want areas that had not reacted in a similar fashion so we did one coat to get all of the metal going and then did the second to get the reaction we wanted. This is all to say, if we skipped the first, it could have left us with areas where the heat gun patina didn't react and so we would have bright shiny copper behind it.
Try putting it on and rinsing after a couple of minutes. In this video, we were going for the splotches. Skipping the heat should give you a more even finish.
I watched this a second time, now I understand. Very nice technique. Thank you for a good demo. A bit more clarity on the coating would have been nice. Thank you! The results are spectacular.
If one were to do this to a bicycle frame, would you recommend completely covering with Copper Plate, then spraying Torch and heating in sections or dousing the whole thing then heating the whole thing? Thank you. Looks like some amazing products.
Bicycle frames are typically made of aluminum, the Torch patina does not work on aluminum. If you are working with a steel frame, then yes I would dose the whole thing with Copper Plating and then go in with the Torch patina - no heat required for that.
@@sculptnouveau Thanks. I mainly deal with BMX frames which are partially hi-ten or full cromoly. I recently etched my frame with ferric acid. But, obviously I'd like to use less dangerous materials so I could do it more often and try different finishes, which lead me to you. I'm definitely going to try some of these products in the near future.
Does this work with your line of brush on copper metal coatings too or just pure and plated copper?
Unfortunately no the Torch Patina does not work on the Metal Coatings.
Why do you rinse it just to add more before using the heat gun?
We did that to help get the initial coat going. Using the heat gun in this method is a more random way to force the reaction. We didn't want areas that had not reacted in a similar fashion so we did one coat to get all of the metal going and then did the second to get the reaction we wanted. This is all to say, if we skipped the first, it could have left us with areas where the heat gun patina didn't react and so we would have bright shiny copper behind it.
So how would you get the red without the splotches?
Try putting it on and rinsing after a couple of minutes. In this video, we were going for the splotches. Skipping the heat should give you a more even finish.