New brass is a shiny golden color but over time it darkens and takes on a green brown or reddish patina.
How to age shiney gold door handles.
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.
I have also included a way to age brass so it takes on a verdigris color.
The second method uses water and a few household products.
I read somewhere that heating the brass up with a flame would help it tarnish quickly.
The first uses a product called brass ager.
Read on to discover which method to.
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.
You will learn.
How to age brass in 5 minutes.
Luckily it s easy to transform shiny brass to create a lovely antique finish that will look far more stylish.
If you prefer the appearance of older brass there are several ways to hasten or imitate aging.
Let s face it door handles don t stay gleaming for long and endlessly polishing away grubby fingerprints is a pain.
Brass fixtures and fittings were all the rage a few decades ago but that super shiny look has fallen out of fashion.
Below are two methods to age brass.
Before you use either method you must remove any lacquer on the brass first.
So at this point it just looked like a scratched up slightly lighter colored 1993 brass door knob.