Keum Boo query

[Green Beetle]

Hi, daisychain

I've looked on your website (and rather like what I have seen!). I wish I could make your keum boo workshop but Southampton is a bit far for a day trip from Nottingham. Could you tell me where you get your gold foil from, please? We had a keum boo demo at the classes I go to and I would like to experiment with it a bit more. Gold leaf is too thin and gets eaten up (I've tried) but I haven't found a good source for gold foil. Many thanks

[elliboo]

Not daisychain, but I've bought foil for Keum Boo at silverclay (http://www.silverclay.co.uk/shgo.htm) if you scroll down the page a bit. I'd love to see any other sources though

[ps_bond]

I've split this one out as a separate thread - seemed the sensible thing to do.

I make my own foil - melt a small amount of 24k on a charcoal block, hit it with a hammer to flatten it then put it through the rolling mill. Once it gets as thin as the mill will roll, I sandwich it between 2 pieces of smoothish paper & roll that through. Can't remember how thin I get it, but I *think* it was somewhere in the order of 15 microns.

A couple of grams of gold goes a very long way.

[elliboo]

thanks Peter, think I might try that when I've used up my sheet of foil :)

[Rob Taylor]

Hi

We are about to receive our first stocks of Keum Boo
23.5ct Yellow Gold Foil For Keum Boo, 3.5 X 3.5" Sheet - Cooksongold.com (http://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/23.5ct-Yellow-Gold-Foil-For-Keum-Boo-3.5-X-3.5-Sheet-prcode-855-033A)
Hope that helps

[daisychain]

Hi Green Beetle
Sorry it's taken me so long to see this and reply - I haven't been ignoring you on purpose, honest! I've had computer problems for the last week or so. I'm glad you liked what your saw on my site!
Anyway, thanks those of you who answered the question!
I've bought my gold from Art Clay UK: Silver clay, courses, books, fine silver findings, stones, tumblers and kilns for metal clay (http://www.silverclay.co.uk) as Sharon suggested. I'm not quite awake enough to work out whether silverclay or cookson are cheaper!
Jo