How to get Gold Flakes from a bar?

[ps_bond]

Scraper? Graver?
What size?

[medusa]

you can buy gold flakes on ebay.

[Dennis]

Use a grater.

[Goldsmith]

Might be a silly question but what do you need gold flakes for? I have been a master goldsmith for 46 years and have never used gold flakes on a job. When I Googled the uses of gold flakes, most were for cooking, perhaps whatever job you need to complete could be achieved with these from Amazon; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edible-Genui.../dp/B004CJSD54.


James

[ps_bond]

All I could think of was assay.

[Unhindered]

Thanks for the replies guys, a customer has requested them as far as I am aware they are to go into a small glass vial? so I don't think filings would get the required affect and just couldn't think, I was thinking some sort of graver if anyone has any ideas of specific tools let me know!

[Goldsmith]

A half round scorper could be used to cut off gold curls, as I assume that the customer wants something visible.

If you have a grinder in your workshop you could make a draw scraper from an old file tang. If you are interested in making one of these, I would suggest making one like this one I made for box corners, but instead of a cutting point make the cutting point half round.



James