Aging your hands

[Gorilladame]

Hi!

So after reading a lot here is my first post in this excellent forum.

I wounder what you think is the best way to age your hands (or for better understanding the hands of a watch ;-) )

I tried salt acid, some cleaning stuff with bleach, mold killer (actually I even tried mold killer in combination with salt acid what lead to an chlorid smell in my flat for about 3 days and sour throad ...)

But in the end the hands just looked like fresh polished.

So what do you guys use?

Next thing I want to try is a car cigaretlighter to burn them...

[FxrAndy]

Coffee for the lume works

[freddy333]

There are a number of posts describing various methods that you can search out. For starters, try this or this or this.

[Nanuq]

For aging hands, I always start with the thumb, and I find an axe works great for getting that "aged" look.

[freddy333]

[hiker01]

For aging hands, I always start with the thumb, and I find an axe works great for getting that "aged" look.

Do I have to use a special Axe to get that effect???

[Gorilladame]

I actually got a quite simular effect with a broken glas, worked for me...

the thing with the coffee is defintly a great idea, will try this on the lume, thanks.

I also thought about cigarett smoke, also gets your hands look real old after some years...

@Freddy333: thanks for the links, I already read this and instandly forgot the baking procedure, thanks.

I guess by 550 decrease you mean fahrenheit....

Did you grill it or did you use hot circulation air?

Edited December 21, 2009 by Gorilladame

[hooky]

this is what I copied from an old Madasboot posting:

You can achieve an old look by submerging the hands on heavily concentrated salt water for a week, let them dry for a couple of days and then repeat the process but instead of water use vinegar (white and not red wine vinegar).

[rower]

I aged my hands by not using any lotion for the last 10 years. Now they are all old and leathery looking!

[hooky]

I aged my hands by not using any lotion for the last 10 years. Now they are all old and leathery looking!

Lucky for you my friend. Many of us had to bake them in the oven.