Thread: creating patina

Originally Posted by RezDog

As I have gone through and sanded and cleaned some old razors I have wondered about trying to make them look more like their age. Has anyone tried any of the commercial product for creating patina like JAX Chemical Company | Products
I have read a couple of threads where guys were using hot vinegar but it seemed like it was more for etching than patina.

Patina and etching are the same things, but on a different timescale. They're both oxidation of steel.
Patina is what you get with oxidation over time, and is a very, very thin layer.
Etching is what you do to accelerate the same process which generates the patina.
You could play with the temperature of the vinegar to control the speed with which it happens.