Posted by Mike Jackson on February 18, 2004
Hi again,
The last little area finished chipping and I cleaned off the asphaltum outlines in the grooves. The asphaltum cleaned up with one paper towel and a couple of thimbles full of laquer thinner. Not much mess at all.
To be honest, the piece above was the one done using Pat Mackle's method (modified a little but basically the same). I have new photos of the finished new piece but it is almost identical to the one above. If I shuffle them around, I don't know if I would be able to tell.
After all is said and done, I like both methods. It would just depend on the actual project at hand and maybe a gut feeling at the time as to which one I would pick to do.
As I talked about earlier, frosted areas do not accept solution silvering or Angel gilding well at all. The design/process you see above is really designed for doors, windows or dividers in which the glass is basically kept clear.
With that said, I am considering painting the background by hand in black or some dark color. I'd leave the chipped and frosted areas clear initially. I might be able to paint in the grooves with matallic paint, then water gild over the chipped areas? Spraying metallic gold or silver paint over the lines and chipped areas "might work" as long as I didn't curdle the black or dark background with the hotter solvent based spray paint. Just thinking about it right now.
For readers seeing this post before reading earlier posts, you will need to go down to posts from a few weeks ago and then read the board from the bottom up. The bottom line is I did the same project three times. The first one had some problems and the second two used slightly different approached to get basically the same results.
Mike Jackson
Denver Chapter of the Letterheads