How To Age Shiney Gold Door Handles

However by removing this protective coating and applying either ammonia fumes or brass ager to the surface you can age your brass hardware to give it a pleasing tarnished.

How to age shiney gold door handles.

I have also included a way to age brass so it takes on a verdigris color. I knew i had seen on the internet before using some kind of heat source or fire to age the metal but of course i couldn t find a good tutorial anywhere when i was looking for one. Read on to discover which method to. Below are two methods to age brass.

The second method uses water and a few household products. Before you use either method you must remove any lacquer on the brass first. If you prefer the appearance of older brass there are several ways to hasten or imitate aging. You will learn.

Luckily it s easy to transform shiny brass to create a lovely antique finish that will look far more stylish. New brass is a shiny golden color but over time it darkens and takes on a green brown or reddish patina. The first uses a product called brass ager. Brand new brass hardware such as drawer pulls door handles or towel bars stays shiny and bright for decades because of a protective lacquer coating on the surface.

Let s face it door handles don t stay gleaming for long and endlessly polishing away grubby fingerprints is a pain. I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob. How to age brass in 5 minutes. So at this point it just looked like a scratched up slightly lighter colored 1993 brass door knob.