Our guys are all trained to use gold leaf | transfer gold but the use of this skill and indeed signwriting (freehand) in the workplace is limited these days to Honour Boards in long established sporting clubs (Toorak Services Club) and schools (last year we did Melbourne Grammar’s Honour Boards) where such boards still exist and are still updated using the gold leaf or transfer method. Because of the lack of experience the young guys never get a chance to use this skill which is a shame. For Honour Boards we tend to use the transfer gold method where we first signwrite the letter in an undercoat yellow and then transfer the gold (real gold) onto the painted letter.
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