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Emma LM, Well stated, now retired I spent 50 years in USA as "self taught " Sign painter. When I first started..... out of a necessity to make a living, I had no comprehension of the range of artistic excellence that was involved. I became determined to become a specialist at gold leaf glass guilding. You're comments was well crafted..he's on the level of a modern day Michaelangelo. I learned glass guilding from a book dedicated to this. However I was aware of many techniques but never received any call for this. It was a fantasy to have my "sign vehicle " look like Mr Smiths. I did develop a method of screen printing on a vertical plane as on office doors. I also used "photo film" as a alternative to "hand cut" silk screen. At first not having money to buy an "arc lamp" I figured a way to use natural ultra violet light from the sun as part of developing process. But resourcefulness is indeed a necessity in this field. Mille Grazie Paolo di Califas

+1-Shot slinger As we others in the field would say: "Over The Top." Ya 'Love-It-When-Ya-See-It'. . . The Guy's A Master!

Thank you.

Arsenal I agree about "artform lives on " I'm now retired after 50 years in the Sign business. I learned gold leaf glass guilding mostly from a very comprehensive book dedicated to gold work, including surface guilding and had another on glue chipping process. I was considered a "gold leaf specialist " by other sign companies in my area and most of my business involved subcontract work. ( Shop owners wanted to go along and... "watch" my gold leaf & silk screen back up system ....or send another worker" along and I would be honest and say im not giving lessons, implying I would be creating competition and lose their business..most understood. I had my own business called D'Oro Designs... but worked as general sign painter for 4 or five sign shops from time to time. I developed my own method for silk screen gold leaf "backup " on a vertical substrate such as office doors. Using a blue or green "photo-film" required an arc lamp in developing process but I found by using natural UV light from the sun very adequate for a small individual shop as mine. (1st stage) in developing the film..however I made a system using opaque letters or design to shiny acetate carrying sheet, then put my own "rigged" setup in the sun for 90 seconds then immediately covered exposed film . (2nd stage)...took inside my shop and 2nd stage was put exposed film in a hydrogen peroxide solution ( I used a 4 part distilled water to 1part hydrogen peroxide solution in a flat tray slightly washed film by slightly moving solution back & forth for another 90 seconds in developing photo film (3rd stage.) then transferred film to a flat piece of plexiglass and using cold water washed out the developed design/ office door name ... ( 4th stage) then placed screen precisely in center of screen and usingold newspaper blotted the film into screen fabric..( * a computer cut silk screen film is also available ) then adhere film to screen ) *I had a special silk screen frame for standard office doors that was "precisely" 30" wide and I drew a straight horizontal line using a waterproof black ball point pen measuring about 12" down inside frame on fabric . Then made precise cent mark all to indicate as precisely possible where to adhere developed photo/ or photo with hand or computer cut lettering or design such as logos etc ***MANY OTHER STEPS ARE REQUIRED AND ANY THUMBS UP LEFT I. WILL TYPE THEM OUT HERE, BUT IT WOULD BETTER IF SOMEONE HAS A SILK SCREEN AND GOLD LEAF ON INSIDE OF GLASS OFFICE DOOR.,VIDEO IS AVIALABLE. LOOK UP......YOU-TUBE .... GOLD LEAF LETTERING SILK SCREEN PRINTING..however is not too comprehensive and isn't much of a lesson with annoying background tin pan alley piano..I WASN'T ABLE TO LOCATE A GOOD TUTORIAL ON REVERSE SILK SCREEN PRINTING ON GLASS GUILDING..

Amazing!