Hi LtBadd, I brushed on some HCL because I'm impatient, but they've weathered further very nicely on their own. The butterflies have a bit of colouring because they were cut from 40gallon drums which happened to be cream coloured. I deliberately ground them down gently to expose 90% of the metal and...

That's really helpful, thanks Mike.
And thank you for the positive feedback on my pics. I'm loving working with metal and have lots of ideas but still developing the skills needed to execute some of them, so very grateful for all the info here.

Someone asked (a long time ago) for people to post other hand-cut plasma projects... Butterflies: I made a set of 3 of these in differing sizes to jazz up the very boring back of my mum's shed. Gate: Made this as an entry into our permaculture food forest. This was my very first project so don't loo...

Thought I'd post a pic of one of my creations. I like how he turned out.

Hi All, I found this forum in a search to have a question answered, and am glad I did. Lots to read here! I just started welding about 6 months ago when an incident at work forced me to have a few months off. Silver lining was spending time with my retired Dad who taught me. Since then I'm hooked ha...