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,...
Posts by Jonathan Maes
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...