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Looking for some Gold Leaf Or Gold Leaf Paint for HDU Signs
-------------------- We get you noticed Henry Edmonds X-treme Signs & Graphics South Hill, VA xtremesigns@yahoo.com Posts: 142 | From: South Hill, Va. | Registered: Jun 2001
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There's gold leaf, in various karats, that affects colors, and there is gold paint, but it won't ever look like gold leaf...
Are you asking where to purchase?
-------------------- Mark Kottwitz Kottwitz Graphics Ridgely, MD www.SeeMySignWork.com -------------------------- Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Posts: 746 | From: Ridgely, MD | Registered: Oct 2000
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-------------------- We get you noticed Henry Edmonds X-treme Signs & Graphics South Hill, VA xtremesigns@yahoo.com Posts: 142 | From: South Hill, Va. | Registered: Jun 2001
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But but you can pour it at 4,8000 degrees fahrenheit. It be a real hot paint job!
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3812 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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I have bought from a couple of vendors, and I like Sepp Leaf. Very helpful, and they are interested in the end product.
-------------------- Mark Kottwitz Kottwitz Graphics Ridgely, MD www.SeeMySignWork.com -------------------------- Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Posts: 746 | From: Ridgely, MD | Registered: Oct 2000
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I get mine from W & B, Urban is a great guy and offers lots of help. He convinced me to try Aluminum leaf on a job a few years ago - and since then I have used in on three other signs because people like it so much.
-------------------- Patricia A. Raap Raap Signs 2615 Arthur Coopersville, MI 49404 616-677-0158 pat@raapsigns.com Posts: 574 | From: Coopersville, MI 49404 | Registered: Nov 2003
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I've used loads of gold leaf in my career and would rather gild something than paint it, however, the best paint I've found is Ronan Aqua Leaf Brass. It's the closest I've seen to looking like real gold--until you get them next to each other.
Many gold paints tarnish into a rusty brown color in a few years. This paint doesn't. I recently painted graphics on an awning that was being replaced due to storm damage. The previous awning, which I lettered, had been up seven years in Texas sun. The Ronan Aqua Leaf Brass paint still glowed a beautiful gold color and the only difference between the old and new graphics was that the old was very slightly lighter in color.
The Ronan doesn't cover well and will take five or six coats to finish. After about the third coat, it begins to shine. It requires a white undercoat before you paint but it really ends up a nice shiny gold.
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-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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David, have you ever tried Modern Masters gold paint? Joe Crumley swears by it and there Pharaoh's Gold looks very convincing as well, of course again until you put it up to the real thing. I've only used it for interior so far, just wondering if you have used it and if I should avoid exterior application.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5396 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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I do have some of the MM Pharoah's Gold and I like the Ronan a bit better. It seems to be a deeper color. Of course, that's just personal preference... and, of course, neither holds up to real gold. I probably have a dozen varieties of Modern Masters paint and use them quite a bit.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I know I’m straying off topic (what else is new), but this post shows some of the uses I’ve had for Modern Masters paint.
On Dallas Auction Gallery, we lettered the awnings. Their colors were light green and brown so I used Modern Masters tarnishing copper and tarnishing iron on the wall signs and address numbers and then hit them with their acid to turn them into patina and rust. I then used their clear coat to fix the colors in place. They loved the effect.
The Coal Vines and Fireside Pies signs used Modern Masters Copper Penny, smalts, and a few other effects. The gold drop shadow on the first sets of Coal Vines were gilded with 23K Gold leaf, then I switched to MM Pharoah’s Gold, then to Ronan Aqua Cote Brass.
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-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've lettered over a thousand awnings in the last decade, by hand... however, I mask them first.
I was out on a jobsite yesterday with paint brush in hand as I repainted the lettering on a sandblasted cast stone sign we originally built 15 years ago.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Thanks to all your help and advice over the decades, I'm learning to stop holding brushes by the hairy end. I keep getting paint all over my hands that way.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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