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Unread 12-22-2015, 03:49 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by alvin View Post
I guess the color tone being temperature and time related... but not sure.
Found a web site that explains this quite well: http://tincanbandit.blogspot.com/201...at-bluing.html . One of the pictures shows the colors you get at different temperatures, and here you can see that nitre bluing and strawing is the same type of process, just different temperatures.
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