]Hot Coloring

[John L]

Does an oven or torch give the best coloring on hardware....screws, thumbstuds, bolsters, etc? Thanks

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Depends on the surface preparation and what you call "BEST". Heat bluing will produce a good blue color,with a fairly even coloration.For darker blues and blacks,there are chemical treatments that work well.

 

[IronWolf]

an oven will be more even, and controllable. for parts as small as screws, they should be a pretty even color with either, although, a torch may heat too fast, you risk going right past blue and into grey. with bolsters a bit of playing with a torch could get a straw fading into purple into blue if you have good torch control, that would be very difficult if not impossible to do with an oven.

Ken

 

[Bill DeShivs]

Unless your heat-colored parts are protected from wear- like a sunken screw head, the coloring is not durable at all.

 

[Larrin]

Unless your heat-colored parts are protected from wear- like a sunken screw head, the coloring is not durable at all.

12 years! That’s an impressive thread resurrection.

 

[john april]

i dread the day i do that

 

[Bill DeShivs]

I have no idea why this thread showed up as a new one.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I'll close it. There is another one running about heat and salt bluing.