BARNABAS BLATTGOLD Genuine Gold Leaf Sheets 24k - - 3.1 inches - 25 Sheets Booklet - Transfer Patent Leaf

This gold leaf had good reviews from professional gilders so I trusted it for my first project. I think it turned out pretty good.I’ve included some photos of the process.I had printed out elvish letters, pasted them to a block of wood and routed them out with a palm router using an 1/8 inch ball nose end mill.Using the knife I cleaned up any wood burrs.In a dust free environment, I applied the gilding adhesive. I waited for it to set up. Then I applied the gold leaf. Then sanded off the excess with an orbital sander. Brushed out the dust,…coated with my choice of finish. (I highly recommend Odies Oil). Blew off excess finish in routed grooves with an air nozzle and buffed off surface.I’m sure I made a bunch of mistakes and I’m probably forgetting a bunch of steps and plus I wasted a lot of gold but this is just a review not a gilding tutorial. This is what I used it for. I didn’t eat any of the gold.If you’ve never tried it, gilding is fairly simple and easy. Watch a couple YouTube videos to start then keep learning. I want to do more gilding in the future and will buy more from Mr. Goldblatt. Thanks Barnabas you the man.

They go above and beyond to make sure all customers are satisfied. Very pleasant experience!

Following an initial mix-up when Amazon sent me the wrong product, I reached out to Barnabas Blattgold directly. They could not have been more helpful and dispatched a replacement order to me directly. The product (genuine gold leaf) is exactly as advertised and excellent quality. I will certainly source my future requirements from Barnabas Blattgold.

My husband is using this to gold leaf an exterior sign at a local bank. He was quite impressed by the product. It is as described. Also very impressed with the speed at which it was delivered. The photo is the "before" photo, after photos to be added later. It goes on with a matte finish, not overly shiny.

Great price for a great product. This stuff is the real deal. This year alone I've applied about 30 packs of this gold leaf, in the Missouri Governor's Mansion and a catholic church in Kansas City. The 23.5 karat was a little cheaper and worked great for the church, but didn't match what was at the governor's mansion, so I had to go with the full 24K and that worked perfectly, matching the historic existing gold leaf very well.I used the loose leaf at the church, but it's like gossamer, so any breath will send it waving and when you try to control it you end up crumpling and tearing it, so unless you need it loose, the transfer paper is better because it's stuck to the paper until you push it against the sizing on your wall/ceiling. The transfer is also better if you're doing a fine design, because only the design will tear away and you can reuse other parts of the leaf on the same paper, whereas the loose stuff can tear when you pull it away and therefore be hard to reapply elsewhere.User's tip: In the middle picture, I painted my base designs with latex paint before applying my oil-based sizing and ultimately the gold leaf. This would normally be fine except that it all happened in a two day time period, so the latex paint hadn't fully cured (even though it felt dry) and consequently the gold leaf stuck everywhere I pushed on it, not just on the sized spots. To fix this i used a fine point eraser-pen to "erase" the excess leaf and then go over it again with a bit of the latex base color.