Metallic gold coloured filler

[Lily]

I'm new to embellishing turned pieces. Does anyone know how I could make a filler in a gold colour? I tried adding brass powder to araldite but it came out very dull. Does anyone know if araldite is compatible with oil paint or acrylic? Or are there any other tricks?!
Many thanks.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Brass or bronze powder with CA. Put a little powder in the crack then a drop of CA, let it dry a minute. Then a bit more powder and a drop more. Then a bit of powder and a drop of Ca ... you get the idea ...

 

[Lily]

Many thanks Phil.p. I'll give it a try.
Is CA the same as superglue?

 

[bourbon]

yes. Cyanoacrylate or superglue. Powerbond has fillers but I don't think they are metallic

 

[mikec]

If using the metallic fillers with Araldite you need to make a very stiff mixture, at least 50% metal powder if not more.
The other problem with using epoxy is that you are likely to get pinhole voids due to air in the mix.
Always build it up above the final level required.
Done correctly you can polish to a good metallic shine.

That said however the superglue technique once mastered is probably easier to do.
Remember that you can fill the base of a large void with sawdust etc and just use a final thin layer of metal powder.

Hope this helps.

mikec

 

[Walney Col]

If you're wanting "gold coloured" in large quantities you can buy bags of fake gold flake (or any other coloured) and mix them into epoxy resin.

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[Bm101]

Tbh, if you're after bronze filings I will start saving it. Wish I'd known before, PM me. Don't buy it fer gawd sake.

 

[Mark Hancock]

I'm new to embellishing turned pieces. Does anyone know how I could make a filler in a gold colour? I tried adding brass powder to araldite but it came out very dull. Does anyone know if araldite is compatible with oil paint or acrylic? Or are there any other tricks?!
Many thanks.

Welcome to the forum Lily.

I did tell you they are an informative helpful bunch

 

[Robbo3]

Have a look through Jim Overton's channel - Jimson's Stuff. There are a couple on adding brass or bronze inlays
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6h82L ... 9Fg/videos

From memory, he adds powder as to make a stiff mix so much so that you would think that the resin was at its powder saturation point.