Went in today and made a slight change to the custom work I did to the Consular I call "Trenalador's Heart"
It's shown here with my 'stock' Consular
What I did today was go in and remask the sleeve and, using some steel wool, remove the aluminum black that I'd done previously.
Leaving the masking in place, I gave some salt water etching a try in the same pattern.
I have to say that the method I found on YouTube works great, but I'd warn about some nasty fumes and recommend using a respirator if you do this.
The results look a LOT more like what I was tryign to achieve originally.
I also went in and did a little sanding on the pommel as it just looked too clean to me