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Dodgee
03-27-2008, 09:29 AM
Has anyone tried Caswells Black Oxide. Just how deep a black can you get with this treatment. I can only get the stuff in a 2.5 gallon kit at a couple hundred dollars. Just wanna be sure it will do the job before I part with any cash.
Inkspressit
03-28-2008, 02:44 AM
WTF!!!!!, you can blacken a frame without that Shiz.....heat and oil, heat and canola oil, heat and oil. i'd rather spend 200 on parts than shiz to blacken somit.
hotdiggitydawg
03-28-2008, 04:21 AM
Word up Inks, oil blackening is one of the nicer finishes....
Dodgee
03-28-2008, 07:32 AM
Totally agree dudes, but I wasn't looking to use this on my frames, I want to use it to blacken all my parts right down to the washers. I really dig that allblack ;)look. And I'm a real lazy cunt too, so if all I need to do is dump my shit into a solution of this shit to get the result I'm after then fuck it I'm one happy fella. And yeah, she's a bit pricey, but I think it's 2.5 gallons of concentrate so the stuff should go a long way. Could probably use it on other things like bike parts and such.
undercover art
03-28-2008, 08:36 AM
Yeah it'll do what yer wanting it to do...I asked a friend of mine at the local bike shop, and he said they use it to make parts super black...
Dodgee
03-28-2008, 09:39 PM
Cheers undercover. Like what I'm hearing.
Desert Rat
04-17-2008, 11:35 AM
Buy the big bucket and sell little bottles to your buddies.

I wouldn't mind trying some.
Dodgee
06-09-2008, 08:02 PM
So after some pissing about, I finally got my hands on this stuff. And blow me sideways it certainly does the trick. You get a really sweet deep black and I've used it on just about everything. I've got a couple of ductile iron frames that I was originally going to paint, sort of aiming for that Soba Pilot look, but I dunked one into this shit instead and that was it for me. I completed the piece over the weekend. Dressed the bitch all up in black. Will post a pic. Just waiting on some copper to run up some contact screws.

Buy the big bucket and sell little bottles to your buddies.
I was seriously considering doing just that, Desert Rat. But since I'm so happy with the results, man I gonna keep it all to myself. And besides I've got a shitload of uses for this stuff now.