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I can't locate one to purchase. I am just looking for the Rick Glawson recipe, but can't find it in type on the net. Where can I find the colored bottles he describes in his step by step, or at least the formula for the liquids in the bottles? Thanks. Phil.
-------------------- Phil Steffen, 29 Van Rensselaer St City of Saratoga Springs DPW Saratoga Springs NY 12866 Posts: 563 | From: beautiful Saratoga Springs NY | Registered: Aug 2001
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Thanks David and Bob - and special thanks to Phil for phoning about the kits. He and Barb Shortreed were both concerned enough to let me know my e-mail was bouncing back. It should be (should be) all clear now for anyone who wants to order - or to ask questions. The PalTalk seminar was just great but I don't think we got all questions answered. I love to try answering questions but BEWARE - what you ask may end up in the FAQ section on my all new website due out in early March.
-------------------- Sarah King - Angel Gilding Supplies 708-383-3340 sarahk@angelgilding.com Posts: 27 | From: Oak Park IL USA | Registered: Sep 2003
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I was checking out Beverly's old K of the C site & got the impression that this info was lost without his classes. With no posting in the last year though, I assumed that info was out of date.
Among the 40 posts that site did accumulate, I did find one good bit of info, & relevant to this discussion. It was this link back to a great Lettervillestep-by-step
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I am no expert on glass--I probably lay a hundred sheets of surface Gold for every sheet of glass gilding I do (although I use mostly loose Gold for our surface work). I have done gilding on glue chipped glass by gelatin size and by Angel Gilding. My best results have come from Angel Gilding. I’m sure the results are even more certain these days as Rick and then Sarah have tweaked the process over the years.
I did get a neat effect on a project one time by using both methods. The chipped letters were done in Angel Gild and I gelatin sized a chipped border around the sign, doing one gild on the border. After burnishing the border with cotton, much of the Gold was gone, especially on the frosted areas. After painting the background, I had a random, snail pattern border interspersed with the background color. It looked way cool.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5089 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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David- do you have a picture of the "way cool" project? I does sound neat.
-------------------- Phil Steffen, 29 Van Rensselaer St City of Saratoga Springs DPW Saratoga Springs NY 12866 Posts: 563 | From: beautiful Saratoga Springs NY | Registered: Aug 2001
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That particular job was a volunteer job I did in New York at the restoration of the Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn and for some reason, I didn't get a picture. We did several test panels to decide the technique we wanted to do over the doors and that one wasn't chosen for the final job.
I did another job using a similar process and am attaching a picture. On this one, we double gilded the border before we buffed with the cotton. There is some inter mottling of the background with the border but I think it would have been better if we only water sized and gilded once on the border.
We got a slab of rough cut Walnut and spent many hours on the table saw building the frame for this. After we installed, the customer asked us to paint it black. I told him: "I'll get you a black frame" and went to Michael's and ordered a stock one. The Walnut frame ended up in our trade show booth.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5089 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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