How to Force Patina Copper Items: Featuring Tactile Turn Writing Instruments! 

Thanks for sharing, stunning result.

It actually looks pretty good 😊 Well done!

This look beautiful!

Awesome project looks great. I’ve got a copper tactile pen that I bought a couple of years back that I’m going to try this on

Technical professionals and their writing utensils. My grandfather, my dad, and myself all worked in engineering and we all had our fancy writin irons. That one looks nice like that. The tuner of mechanical pencils. The test will be to see if it stains a nice white shirt. Kinda reminds me of the resin pens and pencils without the high gloss. That has a more natural appearance. Nice job Eric. Good project.

That's very cool! 👍 Btw, you are correct... it is definitely science. 😃 I think what you meant to say is it's not an "exact" science. I saw a similar process using ammonia; however, a Sharpie marker was used to draw designs so the marked areas would not patina. I'm just beginning to learn some of these techniques and find it very fascinating so thank you very much for sharing your experiment.😊

Hey man, Great tutorial! I’m about to patina a guitar rosette for an acoustic guitar I’m building while in isolation. Can you please list the brand and product of the wax you used? I love how the finish turned out and I would like that to happen to mine.

Looks great! How has the patina held up over time?

My copper pen has gotten a decent good looking patina by just using it overtime I don’t use oil I might wipe it ounce in awhile it’s gotten a cool mixture of darkness’s with a few shiny parts in the spiral mid part from what I’ve seen a little hand sweat while not wiping it down to often seems to work well but will take longer but it’s your patina from use. Which I like. Definitely a cool idea hope u like the patina blue wouldn’t be my color but it looks great if u like blue or at least more than copper I personally love the copper color don’t suffocate or blow up playing with all those chemicals maybe a fan would help👍🏻✌🏻. I worked for a plumbing company for around 6 yrs and love the copper look reminds me of those days we’re drinking and having ladies help me relieve stress 😉 was all I cared about🤡..

How does it look now?

Hello. How good is the grip with those little grooves?

How did this hold up?

Do a follow up please~

I tried something like this and after waxing all my blue went away.

Question... Once this is done... Can you use a Copper cleaner and revert back to the shiny stuff??

Trying this on copper scales for a knife. If i use the carnuba wax or another sealant will i be able to remove it if I decide i dont like it?

hey, wahts ammonia alternatives?

Please try this on a brass one I think that would also look awesome.

Any update on the wear over time?

Never heard of gloves I see.

Dude just ruined a nice pen, nice job

Ruined

That's gross I would never ruin my new copper TT Pen like that.. I take good care of mine and clean it quite often... To each his own I guess At least we both like tactile turn bolt pens😂