yama
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Location: Salem, MA

How to make new stone lanter looks old.

There are several ways to make stone lantern or other stone ornaments look old. Those metod are nothing new and tested hundread years.
1)
Dig holes and bury stone lantern. Dirt stain stone lantern. Warm weather place can stain quicker than cold place.

2)
Using tree leaf, nuts and fruit.
Walnut, black walnut, hichory leaf and nut, acon stain stone lantern. using lage bucket, 35 gal to 50 gal plastic bucket fill wirt leaf of above and acorn / nut.

3) Persimon fruit
Know as shibu gaki which fruit is pointed, green shibugaki is very bitter and produce taning . crush green persiom and put it into water. "shibu" is liquid made of green persimon and water mixed. Shibu is also used to diy fishing net to increase strength and color of net brown so that fish can not see net. This is I learned very young age.

3) Rice water
Old timer wash and rinced rice. useing this rice water over stone lantern.
Nowaday ,no rat poops or debries in rice package. When I was child stored rice in strage in rice straw container, there wear always rat, mice poops in the container, :roll:

4) Use hide glue.
spread hide glue on stone lantern and spread spor of moss or shureded moss.

5) New method. Useing caouking
Find moss which grow well under harsh environment and grow flat and small. scrape off some soil under mass of moss. Get caouking black or brawn, silicon or latex , both work well. place bead of caouking, shorter than size of moss , and press moss gently onto coauking. moss produce spor in late winetr to spring and spread it over time.

Butter milk, moss mix don't work well, it washed off by rain easely before moss are establish.
Those method spped up to stone lantern looks old.
by Mike Yamakami
08 -14 -2010



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