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Hi and happy new year!

I have an old Sabatti Saba Italian side x side box lock with some nice deep relief engraving, machine made. I’d like to fill the recesses to show the engraving better. Does anyone know what I could use? I was thinking just cold bluing the relief and polishing the raised surface, but would enamel work better?

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I think this is what you want.

I have upwards of fifteen assorted axes, hatchets, and splitting mauls. None of them are engraved. YET.

You'll be hearing from my bankruptcy attorneys.

Ugh. Won’t ship to Canada.

Possible alternative?

https://gesswein.ca/products/background-antique-black-2-oz

Possible. I was looking at that. Axe guy said he used to use tremclad. I’m thinking of cold blue in the recesses and then buff the high parts.

I use Renaissance wax with a little lamp black added for that black background look. Clean off the engraving with acetone then give the engraving a couple of coats of the wax/black, with a finger tip, wiping lightly with a paper towel each coat. I give a couple more coats of clear wax as added protection. The wax can be had at GRS as well as other places. I get the lampblack from lmii.com, a luthier supply business in CA.

Does it last?

Lee Valley sells a version of Renaissance Wax. I think they call it Conservator’s Wax. Identical chemical composition amd easier to get if you are in Canada.

I occasional run into that stupid “won’t ship to Canada” BS. My usual workaround if I want it bad enough is to just have it shipped to a friend in the US and then have him forward it. But really……too hard to drop in the mail with a Canadian address?