Thanks Jon.
Yeah, bronze takes a nice penny brown patina over time. None of that green crap you get with brass though.
The problem with the bronze finial nut is that I can't find any bronze that matches. I've got bronze round stock but it's a drastically different color than the flat stock I have for guards. I have at least two kinds of bronze round and neither one matches the flat.
I used to use it anyway and people complained that it didn't match. My personal rule is, if something like that doesn't match, then it's better to do with a contrasting material altogether.
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