[SusanOwenStudioMetal]

Good evening to all,

I am a brand new member here and am really excited to find such a great group of collective wisdom in metal! I bet I could spend hours reading all the posts...

I make smaller scale ironwork; mostly jewelry pieces. I usually just use the ol' used motor oil patina for my bracelets...sometimes I'll use gunblue. I love the way the highlights shine up from wearing them.

But I have a new dilemma: I am trying to come up with a patina that will look like a Black Pearl~ almost iridescent, with a deep look to the color. It also will be next to the skin and cannot rub off (as with my bracelets) as I need it to stay looking like pearls...Black Pearls are not true black but sort-of dark steel gray with a play of blues and greens in them. So hard to describe.

I was reading some posts about Guilder's Paste; would that work for this project? Any help here is greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much, Susan