The Beadsmith XL Gel, Liver of Sulfur Extended Life Gel, 1 Fluid Ounce (29ml) Bottle, Apply a Patina Finish to Silver, Copper, and Other Metal for Oxidized Look on Art and Jewelry Projects

Todo perfecto. La calidad y la entrega son excelentes

Delivery was extremely fast despite the pandemic situation. Just tried on my brass knife handle, unfortunately doesn't work at all. A pity.

I was really happy to find this at such a low price as well. Saved me a lot of trouble as i used to oxidise some jewellery i was working on. The instructions are really straightforward. Although I didnt wear gloves I would recommend you do because it's difficult to avoid contact with the substance and your hands feel a bit itchy for a while afterwards. Also had a small effect (just a tint) on brass as well which was good. Very smelly so try and do it outdoors if possible or next to window. The smell stays on for a while but I knew that already from working with it before.

I saw someone asked a question about restoring the patina to sterling, and it got some negative responses — but I found ti to work beautifully! I am a bit of a sterling silver flatware/napkin ring magpie, and I've gotten a lot of pretty things on eBay. Sometimes the seller polishes the items before sending with something harsh like TarnX, which leaves a cloudy white cast and takes away the dark parts of the silver — even where you want it, so you can really see the details. In my experience, even leaving the flatware in question out and waiting for it to tarnish on its own didn't work. But this Liver of Sulfur really did. To use it, I grabbed a small paintbrush (an old eyeliner brush, actually) and painted it onto the areas where I wanted darkness. You can apply it all over, but it's easier to polish it away when you use as little as possible. Let it dry, and then later polish with a cream polish taking care to buff it into the smooth places and only lightly rub over the newly tarnished parts. A thin microfiber cloth works best for this, I think, because it doesn't have fibers to get in the grooves and undo your new tarnishing. It's also worked well for me on engraved pieces, like antique napkin rings. Sometimes they arrive so tarnished that getting them back to silver is near impossible without a slightly harsher silver polish, but then the engraving blends in with the rest of the silver. I've used this to darken the shallow engravings and the imprinted patterns in the silver to help them stand out — basically, removing all the tarnish and adding it back in where necessary. I've done this on about 10 napkin rings (mostly silverplate) and 13 pieces of sterling flatware. All look great! It took me ages to find an answer about how to restore the patina and I'm thrilled to finally have found something.

Bought for oxidizing copper jewelry. Works great, follow instructions