[Jewelry making - Article 00714] - Re: [Orchid] Gunmetal?

[Chris Penner]

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    Ah, the confusion here is probably due to gunmetal being both a
    colour and an alloy of bronze. The colour is the bluish grey shade
    that steel gun barrels take after heat treating and bluing (a
    phosphor related process I think). Gunmetal the alloy is a
    particular mix of bronze which was used to make cannons before
    metallurgists had worked out how to make iron into steel. The alloy
    is still used in a number of applications industrially, so getting
    wire should not be a problem, polished it would be a deep reddy
    brown, but could be patinated to a dark brown or black in the same
    was as sculptural bronze. 

Chris Penner
collarsandcuffs.com

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