[Jewelry making - Article 00303] - Re: [Orchid] Sealing Patina Colors

[Grace Stokes]

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Melissa,

    I would like to know what level of patina you are trying to preserve
    on your pieces. Are you trying to keep them a dark grey or are you
    trying to preserve some of the wonderful blues, golden browns and
    magentas you get at various stages? If you check the archives, you
    will see that I asked your very same question a while back. I got a
    good response to my query about what other people use to set their
    patina colors without dulling them and I tried many of the
    suggestions, Renaissance Wax, Nikolas Lacquer, and other sprays,
    etc, but I too found none of them worked as a fixative without
    totally dulling the beautiful colors I spent time and effort trying
    to achieve. I do continue to spray my patinaed pieces and
    unfortunately, am resigned to live with the dulling because I have
    seen pieces that were not sprayed - customers wearing them etc, and
    they look far worse - the patina just darkens and becomes very dull
    grey/brown and unattractive. I was hoping someone would come up with
    a terrific answer too and I am sorry I don't have one for you. Here's
    hoping...... 

Grace
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