We started the fall sessions this evening.
Leo was in good trim and went over a technique he has developed for gold leafing surfaces;
Mix Cerium Oxide powder or paste with shellac.
Cerium oxide is an abrasive used to polish glass.
Spread this on the surface of your well sanded project and let dry.
Sand this down well and even burnish it with agate
Spread a small layer of methyl hydrate on the surface
Carefully lay on the leaf (papered product) and the gold will be sucked on to the surface and you life away the paper easily (See attached movie)
Once dry it can be burnished
This is good for imitation or real gold leaf
He has a vase project under way and showed how he used masking tape to cover edges so the the gold leaf goes on cleanly.
We then cut blanks from a 4 inch thick x 8 3/4 wide cheery stick
We will make contoured bowls from these with an ornate lid(see photos)
Two..perhaps three or four.. new people are interested in attending the sessions.
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