SONGBIRDS GOLD EDITION
Production process gilding with gold foil
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Yellow gold: 22.5 carats
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White gold: 12.0 carats |
In an elaborate manual process, the wooden frame is primed 7 times, gilded with gold leaf, polished to a high gloss and finished with a protective lacquer coating.
Individual steps in the gilding process
1. Sanding the wood
2. Priming with a gesso of stone chalk
3. Priming with stone chalk
4. 1st priming with a gesso base
5. 2nd priming with a gesso base
6. 3rd priming with a gesso base
7. 4th priming with a gesso base: dousing (thin glue layer)
8. Yellow bole, 1st coat
9. Yellow bole, 2nd coat
10. Red bole, 3rd coat
11. Red bole, 4th coat
12. Gilding with gold leaf
13. Polishing of gold leaf and lacquering.
Production process for gilding with gold leaf is carried out in the workshop
The gilding process takes approx. 4 hours.
The most important steps of the production process are as follows:
Sanding the circular wooden frame
using 80 grit sanding paper and soaking it in glue. Drying time approx. 2 hours.
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Gesso base
Application of black chalk with organic glue, drying time approx. 2 hours.
Gesso base
Application of organic glue in 3 layers each dried for 2 hours.
Sanding
with 280 grit sanding paper
Dousing
applying a thin glue layer
Bole
Red and yellow gilders’ clay with organic glue. Application of two layers each of yellow and red with drying times of 2 hours each. Finally it is "dusted and smoothed" so that the gold leaf sticks better.
Gilding with gold leaf
A water and methylated spirits mixture is painted onto the frame to dampen and activate the glue base. The wafer-thin leaf gold (3.4 x 3.2 inches, 3.4 µ) is custom cut and applied using a gilders’ tip –drying time is 2 hours. The leaf gold is then polished with a burnisher. Lastly a layer of lacquer is applied.
Every clock is an original
Produced individually by hand. Gilded with real gold leaf. Every clock comes with its own certificate from the master gilder.
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