You made a ring for me from a silver dollar my grandfather gave to my dad, which gave it to me. Now I plan to pass it down to my son when he gets married. Thanks for your masterful work on a family heirloom that I get to enjoy everyday. I’ve been wanting to re-antique it. This method with bleach looks easy and perfect. Thanks and God bless!

I just had eggs and tried with my silver ring and it turned out fantastic!! great video! love!

Bleach is my new favorite! Thanks for the new method.

this is probably the best video i have seen so far explaining how to do this process and he shows you multiple ways and compares. great video man, keep up the good work.

wow im surprised at how well the bleach one turned out. I'm totally going to be antiquing my homemade silver with bleach! thanks man!

Another method that works better than eggs: Perm Solution! Perms use a ton of sulfur, which is why they stink, so they’re a perfectly viable method, if you want something that works faster than eggs, and probably cheeper than professional patinas. A whole box of perm solution costs about ten bucks, maybe less if you’re savvy and know where to buy. I take the waving lotion-usually labeled step one, or part A, or something similar-and soak a paper towel with it. Then carefully wrap the cleaned silver in the paper towel. It’ll look best if you can cover all surfaces in the wet towel as evenly as possible. After that the patina darkens pretty quickly, 30mins or less, and you can polish as desired. Really easy!

Liver of Sulphur and Eggs causes a Silver Sulphide Coating. Chlorox causes a Silver Oxide coating and Black Max causes a Silver Telluride layer (Contains Tellurium).

Heck yea!! so happy to see you learning this cool stuff!

Welcome back! Those rings turned out great. The bleach looks good! Your education continues! Congratulations!

Thank you so much for sharing what you learn I made my first 1964 Kennedy ring and it turned out great.

I just tried the liver of sulfur on my pure silver rings and boy oh boy, they turned a beautiful purple blue tint, I then used a steel whool to turn some areas dark silver for added combination. Liver of sulfur works well on fine silver!

Great tip with the bleach Skylar love the rings you made great work keepup the videos

Just bought a lumberjack size 16.5. Cant wait to see your work in person. Thanks.

Thank you for the darkening experiment! This is great. I've used Liver of sulfur, I love the bleach idea !!!!!

That’s really awesome. I use the liver of sulfur but the bleach looks amazing!!! Very informative. Amazing content as always. Glad to see you are back. The ring you made for tour wife is stunning.

Fascinating video, Skyler. You have such a creative mind. It inspires me to try new ideas.

Thanks a ton ,outstanding work greetings from Vancouver Canada.

You've got my subscription! Great video as well as the humor!

I just replaced my sterling silver necklace that was thin that had my cross on and both had a nice patina the new necklace is heavier and also sterling silver but very shiny the bleach works I put both pieces I I a shot glass of bleach and in a half hour they were the same color looks great thank you!

Great video as always, thanks for sharing ... Loving the bleech one, .... I've been making rings since this lockdown, passes the time away and spent a small fortune lol , I'm in the UK and it's still quite bad with this Covid-19 ... Be safe, keep your distance ;-)

Good to see you back👍. Just working on hammered silver ring for a client and will defenitely try bleech over liver of sulphur method which is my prefered. Great video and keep up good work👍

Super great video man!! I'm sand casting wax rings and original Alien head from the Alien franchise. I've also made coin rings from your videos. Thank you. I finally need to oxidize for selling so bleach here I come.😊

Really amazing information thanks buddy 👍🏼

After you antique your rings do you apply anything over it to help keep that antique look longer?

That's awesome man I'm so glad you are learning lots of new ways to make rings. Thanks for the great video and time you spent making it. I know I appreciate seeing your videos. Take care man. 😊👍

This was awesome thank you!!!

What a great video. Thank you🙏

Thank you! This really helps!

Tried all four. Found household bleach is best, just remember to clean the silver first. wd40 is good for that. :)

This is Logan, and that ring of yours I have is still one of my prized possessions and reminds me of good times

Do you need to do anything special to stop the antiquing process for each method, I.e. a baking soda bath or rinse under tap water, etc.? Have you tried these methods with sterling silver as well and do they have similar results? Thank you! 😊

Looking forward to your future videos.

I also like the bleach method. How long do you think it will last when wearing the ring everyday??

Thanks for the education!!

Thank you for this clip.

Very good job thanks again 👌

So the steel wool vs a small amount of cleaner? I’m trying to restore the antique to an old silver bracelet that was improperly cleaned. Hoping the bleach method will work.

Cool and thank you!

I wonder if oxygen bleach works or is any different than chlorine bleach? Thanks for the info!!!

Very good Demo. Thank you

Hi. Did you knew that your videos are very entertaining and fantastically satisfying? I will not try to do anything close to the more simple thing that you make [no ability to even try it :)], but i keep imagine my self doing it ;)... thanks for sharing so incredible skills and be so humble to admit that you are still learning new and fantastic things... please accept a hug from lisbon, portugal, EU.

which grade of steel wool do you prefer?

This was very helpful! Thank you!

Great video! Can I ask why you didn't use a polishing compound, instead of steel wool? I'll be doing coins and I'm thinking the steel wool would damage them. Thanks.

Will these methods work for antiquing alpaca?

will this work on silver plated jewellery?

Love the bleach one. Niccccce

Wow, the bleach turned out amazing! If I didn't hate the smell so much I'd probably use it instead of liver of sulphur, as long as it doesn't wear off that fast!

What if i want to oxdyzing silver with stone

Hello bro 😎 I am man and I have one ring with stone.. On the top how to blacken the silver without destroying the stone? Which method is good and to not destroy the stone?

That was great to see I would be real curious to see how well the bleach holds up compared to liver of sulfur I thought the egg one should be touching as much yolk as possible because that is the part where you get the sulfur

When I've done the egg method, I used a plastic bag. It definitely helps to not have any egg touching the ring. It's not as dark as the other methods, but I love the rainbow colors you get.

can this work for other metals?

I would like a gold coin puzzle ring :) at least 5 pieces to the puzzle

Hand sanitizer works well to give silver a petina look.

So good

Can i clean it with simple towel after darkening ???

Thank you!

I just used bleech method. its so easy to make, mine took 6 minutes. such transformation for such short period.

Best way to clean off antiqued finishes?

What was the cloth u used ?

does this damage the silver?

Will this work for gold?

Very cool 😎👍🏻

What about patina on copper clad coins?

You used the egg whites, which don't contain a whole lot of sulphur. Most of the sulphur is just in the yolks. My guess would be that you ended up with that mottling effect from where the eggs were touching too much white and and not enough yellow, impeding them from reacting with enough sulphur by acting like an insulated and keeping them from coming into contact with. You would get more even effects without using the egg whites, or if you had set the ring on top using something like a small piece of paper towel. I've been thinking about building myself a little nylon (don't think metal is a good idea) screen insert for the container I've been using to do this with. I'm curious if that might not work even better because you'd have more complete air circulation than you do with just a piece of paper towel. It's just an idea though, I'll have to upload a video if I get it made the next time I need to antique a piece of silver jewelry.

Does the bleach fade in time?

Will this work on stainless steel?

Cool comparison tests how would the same tests work on copper coins ???

hello which one do you like the best the bleach-- liver of sulfur -- or the black max

That was interesting Skyler ,I think I'm going to give the bleach a shot myself, by the way ,I use your reducing die from Pepe tools it's a five star rating from me all day long ,thanks for the video's, keep up the good work.

Thanks! I always wanted to invest in some in precious metals but balked 'cause I assumed the market would crash. Gee, gold was $800 an ounce and the USSR could flood the market whenever they wanted, so I didn't. But thanks to my "economic incentive" check that my wife and I paid for anyway, (you're welcome) I bought 100 "good" grade pre -1900 Morgans like the ones my grandfather gave me every Sunday and I used to purchase ice-cream and candy. I use some of these new/old ones for poker chips in our high stakes poker games (We play with a $0.25 max - three raise limit... and the players have to cash them in at face value ) Hey! the Gov'mnt gave me the money! Knowing that polishing them in my shell case polisher would affect their numininainiamistic value, (thanks Antique Road Show) I didn't do it. But I'll try to match a few of the shinyer to those that have a natural 140yr old blackish patina.

Cool 😎

Will putting protecta clear on an antiqued ring,damage the antiquing?

Hey! So the jewellery that I wanna have an antique look on has got some gemstones to it. Would it still be safe to drop them into bleach for the antique affect?

How much percent Sodium Hypochlorite are there in the Clorox you used? I tried with a soultion with less than 5% and got no staining on 925 silver.

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So, I have an amethyst and sterling ring that I accidentally removed the antiquing from. (I was removing nail polish and forgot to take off my ring first. 🤦🏻‍♀️) Are any of these methods safe for a ring with a stone? Probably the egg (?), but what about the others?

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May I know what king of steel wool are you using? Thank you

I am sorry I didnt hear well. What "steel wool" did you use for cleaning the rings at the end? whas it FLAT steel wool or FINE steel wool?

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Hi Skyler (I hope I spelled your name correctly) I enjoyed your video, I am especially interested in some of the stuff which you say you learned down in Portland 👍👍 So I have clicked the like button (👍) and subscribed to your channel too 😊👍👍 Glen from Edinburgh 😊👍

Have you tried olive oil to quench a ring?

you master very good

JAX -Hydrochloric acid - is another option.

Where do you buy your coins from? I have looked everywhere online for some just to start a simple business with but have had no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi! Does the bleach method work the same for stainless steels?

Do you live in Oregon too?? I live in Portland and love your page!

Another thing. I’m thinking about starting a coin ring business but don’t want to waste money on the tools if people won’t buy the rings. So how do I need to go about this ?

"Totally cleaned oil free" while holding it in his oily hands.😂

2nd?

Thanks for the video very informative. Looks like I'll be using bleach on my next project! : )

How can I go to your class ?

Really liking your vids on these coin rings. I’m in the process of learning to make them myself. Was wondering if you know how to get this antique blackened effect on copper? Tia Rich

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I found out the chlorine method by handling pool chlorine with my silver rings on. Why bother buying specialty chemicals 🤷🏻‍♂️

I was SOOOOO gonna buy rings from you but COVID 19 lay-off 😩 I’m still impressed with all that you do!!!❤️

Avoid using the egg whites...use only the yoke...to avoid the blotchy parts