Chemist I'm not, so I don't really know the ph of vinegar compared to Phosphoric acid, I'm not even sure what Phosphoric acid is, I haven't taken the time to research it.
But I'm willing to try it.
Woody, I was aging paper to make labels for my old radios and I tried coffee, tea, Ritt, and about everything else I could think of to stain it the right shade without success. Then I stumbled on to this, I soak a fine steel wool pad in a jar of white vinegar for a couple of weeks and it is totally absorbed into solution. Don't know chemically what you would call it but a soak in the tray for my papers and hang them out to dry over night and it really ages the paper to the point that ya can't tell it from an 80 or 100 year old document.
So I know how it will react to Iron.
Acids scare the bajebers out of me, but then again, most things I don’t understand do, like Sweetie Face.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
