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Our church is currently getting a complete interior repaint. Gold leaf was used on the decorative trim. Quite a bit of the gold leaf needs to be freshened up but not all. We've been asked to try to match the gold leaf with a metallic paint. One Shot metallic gold is too dark. Is there a metallic paint out there that closely resembles the gold leaf? Can the regular gold metallic paint be lightened up to match the gold leaf? If so, what would you use?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Paula
-------------------- Lee & Paula Iverson United Graphics Sign Co. Kingsford, MI piverson@chartermi.net Posts: 30 | From: Kingsford, MI USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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The best match I have found to match gold is One-Shot 111-L Metallic Brass. It does not dry with the streaks like Metallic Gold and in my opinion looks better. True, it does not have the shine of gold but may work for you.
-------------------- Gary Winebarger Art & Sign Conover, NC Posts: 88 | From: Conover, NC USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Check out "IMITATION gold leaf". (Call Sepp leaf in NY)
It comes packaged like real gold, metal leaves in books and packs. ( It is really some kind of brass I think.) Like VARIGATED leaf, it goes on tackier size than gold since it's heavier. It's real cheap, and church friendly. Looks very simular to real. Interior only and needs to be cleared.
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I agree with Si. If you were re-doing the entire job, you may use an alternative material, but you said you are matching some of the existing gold! You can only match Gold with Gold!!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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Thank you to all who posted. We appreciated your feedback. We will be using gold leaf on the touch ups on the gold leaf part.
-------------------- Lee & Paula Iverson United Graphics Sign Co. Kingsford, MI piverson@chartermi.net Posts: 30 | From: Kingsford, MI USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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Hiya Lee and Paula, I recently read an article in Sign Builder where Butch Anton mentioned that he liked Chromatics gold paint compared to others because it looked more like real gold. I feel gold leaf is the only way to go. In 20 years you won't have to be restoring the gold paint.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
-------------------- a.k.a. Brian Born www.CheckersCustom.com Harrisburg, Pa Work Smart, Play Hard Posts: 3775 | From: Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. | Registered: Nov 1998
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That leaf WR mentioned was used quite a bit in churches and Cathedrals, auditoriums, etc., as an alternative to real gold. It is, I believe, aluminum leaf that has been colored...folks used to call it dutch gold. If you were looking at it, say in a ceiling, you couldn't tell it wasn't gold, but side by side with gold the gold would look richer. It is meant for interior use only. I would make a small test piece with gold leaf and hold it up next to what you are touching up to see if it matches, because it could be the above mentioned stuff you are dealing with.
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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