Barnabas Blattgold: Gold Leaf Gilding Adhesive 120ml - Gilding Adhesive for Gold Foil Sheets, Gold Leaf Sheets for Art, Gold Leaf Plating

I've never used gold leaf before and the instructions were easy to follow and the results were great. The sheets are very thin and will break apart easily but this was easy to deal with just go slow. Very messy to remove the leaf not glued so be warned, I had gold everywhere.

The quality is terrific, and the size is perfect. The product is exactly as pictured, and it works great, offering an excellent value for the money. It dries quickly and is very easy to clean up.

Perfect!

I love this adhesive. It works very well on paper and paintings, which is all I have used it for (see someone else for use on ceramics). HOWEVER, if you buy this, I highly recommend transferring it to a different container. The seal on the lid isn't airtight, and if you aren't using it all the time, the glue inside will dry. The whole container won't dry out, but the inevitable bit of glue that seeps from the lid to the gap between the container and lid will dry. It becomes a nightmare to open, and I finally had to break open my last jar with a knife. Sadly, that wasted half my container. I am off to hunt down a better container before I purchase a new jar of gilding adhesive.If you can get a small, completely airtight container, do so *before* you open the adhesive up, or you may find yourself struggling to open it a second time.

As someone new to painting/refinishing furniture, I have so much yet to learn.I've watched hrs upon hrs of different YouTube tutorials and it's a real crap shoot.You either get really solid advice from someone who really knows what they are doing or you get an epic fail (5 min crafts, I'm talking to you! LOLLong story short, I wanted to do gold gilding on a piece of furniture but I didn't have any gilding adhesive.NO PROBLEM, or so I thought. I'll just use another adhesive, one that I've had past experiences with and it worked well for the tasks at hand.It worked all right.Having never gilded anything before I had nothing to compare it to.Fast fwd a few weeks, I needed some more adhesive so I ordered the Barnabas brand as I'd previously ordered their gilding sheets (which by the way were Fab!)I initially thought that the 30-minute wait time was going to take forever. However, I'm in an arid climate and it did not take 30 mins to go clear and tacky. This made me happy, however, much more than the short dry time was how well, EVENLY, and SMOOTHLY the Barnabas adhesive bonded to the gilding sheets. It was like NIGHT and DAY! I would never have thought that an adhesive would/could make that much difference but it did.Gilding is a beautiful, messy technique that can't be replicated. As a novice, I found it to be a painstakingly tedious process but the end results are well worth it.Knowing what I know now, I would NEVER use another adhesive on such a large piece. It might have worked for something really small but if you're going to do a lot of gilding (especially over uneven surfaces) save yourself some hassle and invest in a product that's made for it.One lesson down....

Very easy to use. Applied to back of a resin cabachon, then added gold leaf, and a layer of uv resin….beautiful results

Great product, but they should be upfront that it’s imitation gold leaf and imitation silver leaf.It doesn’t make that clear anywhere in the listing or in the box. I had to ask the company directly to confirm they were imitation.Five stars for the easy to use kit, which helped me complete a kintsugi style repair, one star for the misleading listing.

I was having trouble with another gilding adhesive on pottery, so I decided to try this one and it made such a difference! So glad I didn’t give up.