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No, I hadn't really started out with any intention of plating; I stumbled across that penny thing and decided to give it a whirl. It was done on a razor that I had to cut .5" off the end, and it has...

To truly PLATE copper you need to use some nasty chemicals. Either an arsenic-copper chelate, or a copper pyrophosphate compound, neither of which I really want to mess with in an apartment. Not...

Pauly: I actually thought about doing that, but I ended up not bothering with that and just went for the gold...er copper. I was getting pretty antsy to get this thing rolling. If it turns out to be...

I ran across a neat little experiment on a chemistry blog: Home Chemistry: Penny chemistry - Verdigris and copper plating
and decided to give it a shot on a razor. Initially I was going to spend a...