damar embossing

[Doug Bernhardt]

Was at a small heads meet at Phil Ghi's in March and made an interesting discovery. I had used embossing damar before and had usually left it over night to flash off and then gild with water. It so happened that there was a year between this process this time and instead of getting the usual semi gloss finish it was as bright as the outlines. To late smart....and just as I'm about to retire! You'll have to forgive the shaky outlines etc as it was at a letterheads meet with everything that is.

[Tyler Tim]

So you left the darmar to cure for a year.... and it gilt like glass. Cool.
Is the bevel real or painted shading? The dots... mica powder?

Either way good looking piece.

[Doug Bernhardt]

Hi Tyler....the dots are Mother of Pearl, the edge is actually bevelled glass. The part I was most curious about was what is the actual time required for the embossing to cure so you can get the bright water gild after? We know a year works ;=)

[Lee Littlewood]

I had the same after about 6 months. The damar/res'ngel mix was embossed and then forgotten. When I remembered it I did a white gold water gild and it was like mirror on ripple glass. The gold was pretty shiny on both sides.