Ken,
I read through your post again as I'm running my test pieces currently and noticed what you said about boiling at the end. I'm not going to do the black and white pattern right off the bat but am starting with a traditional brown and white found on British guns so will not need to boil. Are you wet carding after each rusting or only occasionally in problem spots? I'm using a modified version of C26 from Angier's book, No mercuric chloride. Starting out with 50% solution which is still very strong and reducing from there. What solution are you using for rusting? My first test piece is fairly course and the pattern shows pretty darn well after a single pass. Fun stuff.....

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