Thread: Anyone want some Potassium Dichromate?

Skew..., yep my stuff.
AlexS, While renovating an old house that had a large darkroom, I found three bottles of this stuff.
Waldo,
If you want to try something with a big reaction, take some rust and mix it with white vinegar. Take a bit of steel wool and wet it, in a few days it will be a pile of rust. Mix that with the vinegar and try it on Black Walnut or Oak and see what happens.

I would say it would turn it near black. I put wood in a rusty 44 full of water and it turned black.

You're right glennk - it would turn black.
But thinned way out with distilled water one can get a silver-like stain on Oak.
George Frank called it 'liquid nightmare' and called its use on Black Walnut, "poor Man's Ebony".

Originally Posted by rightendup

Skew..., yep my stuff.
AlexS, While renovating an old house that had a large darkroom, I found three bottles of this stuff.
Waldo,
If you want to try something with a big reaction, take some rust and mix it with white vinegar. Take a bit of steel wool and wet it, in a few days it will be a pile of rust. Mix that with the vinegar and try it on Black Walnut or Oak and see what happens.

Sounds like Liquid Nightmare.