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Best Gold Slip?

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I need some fine quality gold slip. Who would be the best supplier? I have some GS already, but it's lack lustre.

I prefer seamless mitres, so how would I finish them? Would filler and Goldfinger suffice?
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You will never get a seamless mitre using pre-finished slip.

To get the best lustre and a seamless mitre you would need to start with bare wood and gild it with real gold leaf
and pre-join the slip. That's an awful lot of work just for a slip. :roll:
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Is there anyone who offers gilding as a service?
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Me.
I sell goldleaf slips by the length to several framing businesses. It costs around £14 per foot, depending on style.
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I think you mean actual gold leaf? Do you custom gild slips and their mitres?
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Yes, I can do either. Some customers buy the slip by the length and cut and join it themselves. And that's the funny thing about real gold leaf slips. They look just as good when joined without any mitre filling. If required, I also make a 'joined' slip where the mitre is filled and gilded over. This looks better on the wider slip profiles.
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Should have asked - do you post?
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I certainly do.
Just PM me with the size you're interested in and I can give you an idea of the prices.
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I love hand finished slip, particularly if the can be be noticeably deeper, if they are going to be frame slips. For mount slips, I like the Albor one's lots of suppliers sell them and if you ask they will tell you, if they do them and which ones they are in there catalogue. I don't always use orinary mount slips in mounts, but like to make a double mount for under neath the main mount and hand finished to have a smooth build up to lse the corners and edges a little bit and then give it a final finish in gold.

This is particularly helpful if the mount is to have a round, oval window and a great ways of using up, not very popular colours of scrap mountboard. Anything, which looks classy and different is good to have a display sample in your shops windows as this helps builds you customer base quite well Cheaper basic chucky sloping slips ofter go down quite well in some ready made frames, but be careful to limit the finish for the slip to a simple wash and wax finish. To make any worthwhile money doing this, you need to limit your material and labour costs and not let customers try get things cheaper.

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