It’s true that every barrel browns differently. Some deep brown, some with super contrast, some with twist you can hardly see once browned. These have come up really nicely. Only 5-6 passes needed. They were not going to get any darker and they look just perfect to my eyes. Finished off with caustic soda...
These barrels were originally blacked when I purchased the gub..to my surprise, underneath, beautiful twist. This just had to be rectified. Using my usual browning process it didn’t take long for these to come good. Finished and neutralised the barrels in a warm bath of water and caustic soda and just oil over the...
In this “How To” I’ll be explaining how I go about browning a set of damascus barrels. There are plenty of other ways of doing this I am sure but this way I know, and it works, so I thought I’d get it down in a step by step for people to use, read...
