19th November 2019, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Austria
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Originally Posted by francantolin
Hello and thank you for all the informations !!
does anybody know how do they for blackening the blade like that in the 19th century ?
by heating or oxydation ?
I don't think they used gun blue !  |
They did it like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niello
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