Instant Antique Hardware
Furnished content.
(from Popularwoodworking.com)


New hardware is often way too shiny for my taste, so I chemically age it. If the metal is raw steel, I use standard gun bluing. But if it's plated with zinc, I turn to Super Blue, a double-strength …Source

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