Not sure where my home brew solution falls into the order of things. The reality is that I got impatient just reading about the process and waiting for the product to arrive. Started thinking "How hard can it be to make steel rust?" and started trying different things out. This is the most "user friendly" of the solutions that I've tried.

One of the solutions used a decent amount of copper chloride(copper fittings let sit in muriatic)....on a hot part, it deposited a nice layer of copper. lol

The Laurel Mountain product is a slow rust...actually made for browning steel. From what I've read, it's easy to use and makes for a nice rust blue.

That book...online or print version?



Al