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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2118293, member: 71723&quot;]Thank you, Lehigh. I&#039;ve been discharged from the hospital and I&#039;m Amtraking to work right now. That rainbowed &#039;64 Jeff does bug me a little though. Call it a fetish if you want, but why does the rainbow&#039;s plus factor wipe out the minus factor of the &quot;crud&quot; in front of, and especially behind ol&#039; Tommy Boy? To me, there are competing factors here and it rates a PF67? Wow. Tough for me to take that seriously.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll warn you up front that my &quot;lab&quot; is an ordinary rurally located rancher kitchen, not something out of a Grade B movie with Jacob&#039;s Ladders and Vandegraff machines all around. I do own one Bunsen Burner, but it doesn&#039;t figure in. It&#039;s mostly boring retro darkroom tools and chems. To be square with you, contrary to the thread title, the easy stuff to fake is what I call the &quot;brown splotchy&quot; toning, which is getting premiums I just don&#039;t understand. Rainbow requires different techniques, and is fairly hit or miss. I am suggesting here that there HAS TO BE somebody better at this than I am, if because of better equipment if nothing else.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ran into this completely by accident, because after thiourea/citric acid dipping, I use a baking soda bath to fast stop the thiourea/acid before the distilled water bath. One time I accidentally put the baking soda in with the thiourea, and got wild tones. Most unattractive, at least to my eyes, but some really neat! I often see stuff like I got in slabs with gaudy grades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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