Arsenic salts on indonesian blades

[A. G. Maisey]

I have been using laboratory quality arsenic trioxide for a very long time, and it produces a beautiful result.

But it must be lab quality. The cheaper stuff---I think its called "commercial quality" --- can produce some very peculiar colours on a blade.

[Marcokeris]

Of course i am not a good warangan user...but i must say that the Beringhario's seller (mr. Dullah) dad reason about the power of chimic white dust