It's pretty rare for rust to ever be considered a good thing. It's an absolute pain to restore anything that's begun to degrade and rot away with rust. The cost of restoration can be pretty insane,...

If you're a machinist like me, you're probably always trying to make those beautiful blue 6's and 9's for chips when you're cutting steel. If you're a welder, that color spectrum following your bead...

While sometimes a bit of rust can make a project look kinda interesting and sell well at county fairs, it's generally something entirely undesirable. Some materials, however, don't rust. Do...

Anodizing can be a really cool way of getting interesting colors on metal, and can sometimes be used as a way to make the metal more durable. Can stainless steel be anodized? Stainless steel...

If you skim through the comments of nearly any YouTube "make a ring from a quarter" or mokume gane type of video, you'll see mindnumbing arguments back and forth on whether the content is illegal...

I've done professional etching, so when I heard about salt water etching using a few things that you have laying around your room, I was a bit skeptical that you could actually get decent results. I...