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What is a good crafting metal to imitate gold, or possibly be spray painted gold?
What is a good crafting metal to imitate gold, or possibly be spray painted gold? has to be easily accessible and bought in small quantities. I need the specific material to start up a Custom pendant service online, for jewellery etc.
I looked so far at tin,stainless steel, brass but not sure if their easy to work with and accessible. If there's any specific tools you might reccommend then that would help too.
Part of which materials would be "best" would depend on exactly what you want it to do, and what you want the final pieces to look like.
The "metal clays" (Precious Metal Clay, e.g.) mentioned before are one possibility, but they're fairly expensive and must be cured at a fairly high temperature with special equipment.
Actual polymer clays (Premo, Fimo, Sculpey, Kato, Cernit, etc. are some brands) can be baked in a home oven (or other creative ways), and they can be shaped any way you want then be made quite "gold" using various materials --and in various ways (...this is done for making polymer clay jewelry a lot!):
...real-metal powders
...imitation gold leaf (those two will look very shiny gold) & gold foil
...gold mica powder
...gold acrylic** paint (those two give a pearlier gold)
...metallic waxes
**non-acrylic paints shouldn't be generally be used on polymer clay because the solvents can eat into it *over time*, leaving the clay sticky or even dissolved... some acrylic paints will evenn have that type of solvent in their propellant which can have the same eventual effect
These materials can be applied before or after baking the clay depending on which you use and how you want to use it. The powders can also be turned into "paint" by mixing them into clear acrylic mediums of various kinds.
There are a number of pages at my polymer clay website that have loads of info on all those things. To check them out, just go to the Table of Contents page,
http://glassattic.com/polymer/contents.htm
...then click on the following category pages from the alphabetical navigation bar on the left side of the page:
Powders & Waxes
Leaf & Foil
Paint (look under Acrylics)
Fauxs--many (click on Metals)
HTH,
Diane B.
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