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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6412974, member: 110504&quot;][USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER], thank you for your incisive, but no less nuanced observations, and the examples to demonstrate them.</p><p>The unevenness of the toning that you get from rushing the &#039;natural&#039; process(-es) is fine for a couple of examples, even by my necessarily relaxed standards.&nbsp; But after seeing enough of them in one place, the esthetics start to get really tiresome. </p><p>...Making [USER=58462]@Nemo[/USER]&#039;s response only that much more resonant, by contrast.</p><p>When I have the option of worrying about esthetics in the first place (right, you&#039;re talking to a (mostly-) medievals guy), I&#039;m a big fan of too things: even wear, and correspondingly even toning.&nbsp; Either quality, across metals and chronology, can enhance the net esthetic effect.&nbsp; --But the opposite? hmm, not so much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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