"Owen Davies" wrote in message
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After being away from the group for a couple of years, I have just been
poking through the last 30,000 messages or so, and was reminded of David
Marks, whose program appears in our area at an hour I try never to see on
Saturday morning. His Web site shows a lot of work spectacularly
decorated
with patinated silver and copper leaf. (If this is what he does on TV,
I'll
have to get up earlier, Saturday or no!) Does anyone know how he achieves
those effects? Can anyone point me to a how-to or other source of
information? I would love to be able to try this on some of my own
"work."
At the moment, it would be more wasteful than gilding a pukey duck, but my
skill level pretty much has to come up eventually.

We don't get any of his ww programming anymore on cable and I'm not sure DIY
is taping any more of his stuff. I do some metal patina stuff and broke down
and bought his gilding/patina tape he describes on his site. On the tape he
shows how he makes the patinated silver and copper. The woman he
'coauthored' with on the tape adds very little and Marks, essentially, goes
over the same processes again in more detail. It might be questionable
whether the $65 I spent was worth it..I dunno.
Larry

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Lawrence L'Hote
Columbia, MO
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