Probably a long shot, but does anyone know how to quickly tarnish 10k gold? (Quickly can months, just not years)
I’ve had my father’s ring for 22 years, without a stone. In fact I remember this ring from the mid ‘70 and the stone was missing even back then. I recently had a small, pale blue-gray star sapphire that I’ve had for years (I’ve collected cut gemstones for...
Thanks! Googled using iodine after your suggestion and found a few descriptions of how it works. Seems it’s used mostly for give gold an antique look, which may be more extreme than I need.
I’m going to try chlorine first and if I’m not happy with that, I’ll give iodine a try. I don’t know why chlorine or iodine didn’t show up in my initial google searches but when specifically searching for them there’s lots of hits.
Hard boiled eggs…
Crumble them into pieces and put in a ziplock bag with the thing you want to tarnish
Well it is not the gold which tarnishes
Gold (Au) is essentially inert. It is the other components of the 10k alloy which would tarnish. These are normally silver and copper.
So, this is the ring after a few minutes in a bleach and water mix. It’s almost the same color as it was before being polished.
I should have taken a before photo but didn’t think of it — it was so shiny it looked like a fake from a gum ball machine. Thanks for the help, everyone! Photo on my daughter’s hand. ...