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    Quote Originally Posted by Unhindered View Post
    Perfect! Some great ideas thanks so much! Will let you know how I get on!
    I get all my gold leaf (for hand tooling of antiquarian books) here.
    They also sell gold flakes:http://www.ediblegold.co.uk/gold-fla...af-flakes.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurarius View Post
    I get all my gold leaf (for hand tooling of antiquarian books) here.
    They also sell gold flakes:http://www.ediblegold.co.uk/gold-fla...af-flakes.html

    Thanks but I need to make it rather than buy it

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    Unhindered, I'm wondering how you got on with this. I now want to try something myself with little bits of 24k gold - not powder or flakes of gold leaf, but slightly more substantial random parings/shavings like finely grated chocolate...
    Alan

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    Have you considered cutting a small sheet into pieces (as small as you can) then dropping into a tumbler with some marbles / large ball bearings and leave for while inspecting every day until you arrive at the required granularity?

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    What I did in the end was rolled it as thin as I could, then cut it up with snips and hammered slightly! It wasn't as good as I hoped it would look but the customer must have been happy as I didn't get it back!


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