Does anyone ever do this to hooks, or batches of hooks, that have that too-bright of bronze finish? A few of the Japanese hoosk come to mine......Looking for
a way to give new hooks that aged look Any suggestions out there? Thanks
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Bluing or other-wise treating too bright hooks?
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Posts: 2146 03/29/2009 10:26 |
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Posts: 11 03/29/2009 11:47 |
Ive been experimenting with this over the winter,what Ive done is to sand off the the bronzing with 1000 grit automotive sandpaper dip in gun blue then dip in
thinned head cement, going to find out this spring how they hold up to fishing
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Posts: 168 03/29/2009 12:30 |
I've never done it. FWIW, I understand that the "bronzing" found on contemporary hooks is nothing more that varnish or shellac. Assuming
that's true, it would seem that a bath in varnish/shellac thinner would remove the coating.
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Posts: 1363 03/30/2009 00:38 |
HFR53 Welcome to the forum ! ! !
Sounds like a lot of work and time to do all that . . . . Alan |
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Posts: 12 03/30/2009 07:09 |
Hi Alan,Thanks for the welcome,sanding the hooks doesnt take as long as you would think tho it does get a bit tricky around the barb and eye,whatever they put
on them is quite thin,I have always thought that the hooks were run thru a bronzing soloution then varnished with lacquer,I plan on trying a Lacquer thinner
soak and see what that brings me,as I said Im experimenting
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Posts: 169 03/30/2009 17:56 |
I got curious, so I tried messing with striping some hooks myself. I experimented with a Mustad hook from the 1970s, an Orvis/Partridge hook from the 1970s,
and a contemporary Orvis hook that I understand is made by Daiichi. I strung all three hooks on fine copper wire and hung them in a bit of Formby's
Furniture Refinisher. After a couple hours in the bath I could scrape the light brassy finish off the Orvis/Daiichi hook with my finger nail. The finish on the
older hooks seems the same as when I started.
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Posts: 94 03/30/2009 18:10 |
I don't know that I will go to the trouble till I have a hard time finding older hooks. But I agree that the finish on most hooks lately is less than pleasing. Some of the current blacked salmon hooks are passable but lack the lustre of older ones. I would offer one suggestion....I had to redo a large amount of kitchen hardware small rough finish...borrowed my nephew's rock tumbler. Sand + parts all sanded while I had an adult beverage.......if a nephew or son or grandson has a rock tumbler might be a less work option. Should work on hooks and you could batch several boxes at once........ Life is too short for cheap scotch and plastic rods.
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Posts: 170 03/30/2009 18:57 |
I posted a question about bronzing hooks on the Outdoor Best/FFM tying forum. My interest in the subject is mostly historical, less practical. There're at
least a couple folks there who might know how the old/dark/durable finish was achieved.
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Posts: 194 03/30/2009 19:20 |
Alright, after thinking about this all during the workday, I was anxious to get home and give it a try.
These are rough, to be honest, but I think they have an old look. The thing I would work on more would be the final coat, as the blueing seems to look good
unfinished, but would rust like newly sanded sheetmetal in a tropical rainforest.
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Posts: 13 03/31/2009 13:06 |
Birchwood Casey also makes a solution I believe is called Plum Brown I used it on a coupla muzzleloaders I built a few years back,nice color and you use it the
same as regular bluing
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Posts: 148 03/31/2009 19:56 |
At the big box home improvement pick up some Prep and Etch phosphoric cleaner. Drop your hooks in and wait about 15 minutes. If you forget about them
you'll return and find an empty jar. It will also chemically sharpen the hooks.
The original bronze was a bronze japan, like the black japan impervious to lacquer thinner and acetone.. The modern hooks have a bronze lacquer coating. Bill Bailey has produced a black japan for sale. Paint hardly holds up to the vise, but a true japan is tough and extremely thin. And some of the first finish was animal fat applied to the hot hook after tempering. |
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Posts: 195 03/31/2009 20:24 |
Royce,
Thank you for that... the sanding of tiny hooks has roughed the tender tips of my digits. Dipping in solvent sounds more to my liking! ps, hows the rodmaking  ? CJ
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