gold flake?

[YourMom420]

now with the rising price of gold, can 24k gold flake be like melted to make like a bar/pancake?

[Firekist]

sure thing. on ebay there have been huge stacks of gold leaf for sale. no real need to melt it down, since it can be sold for the same price gold is.

z--seth

[Swampy]

They say the leaf I use for sign gilding varies from 1/8000 mm to 1/10,000 mm in thickness.

For those of you still using the outdated colonial units of measurement, that is four to five millionths of an inch.

[Mac Maestro]

Win/win: You can get drunk and make purdy pink glass all at the same time.

[smutboy420]

Thing Is an oz of gold leaf costs more then an stright oz of gold. So inless you got it when gold was real cheap like in the late 90's its not going to work out on the ecomoic end of thiggs.


Don't go buying to much 24K Gold is going to fall out hard and fall back down toward its natral price range of about $600
But its not going to go past $900 So no savings In buying a lot of gold now. sence it won't and realy can;t go to much higher the were its been.

[YourMom420]

i usually get gold in gram bars/coins off ebay......but from last summer, i paid like $25 shipped for a 1gr coin. now the prices almost doubled, almost $40 for 1gr shipped. but the flake is like $20 w/free shipping for like 10 'vials'. dont know how much thatll weigh til i get some and try

[Firekist]

ahh, not the gold flake vials on ebay! there is a couple people selling that stuff that say "not recommended for melting down" because it's not 24k.. other people are selling gold flake in bulk.. by the ounce or pound! for way way way way under realistic cost. there is no such thing as "wholesale" price for gold. current market value is "wholesale" when it comes to gold price.. and you can only get that price if it's in an auction, or you're dealing with a "nice" person.
often you have to buy quite a few thousand dollars worth of gold to get the current market price.

if you're going to buy this, you should have a gold purity test kit as well.. because it would seem that lots of this flake gold is not 24k. i've seen the vials claiming to be 24k.. it might be. i doubt it. also, there sure isn't much in one of those vials.

anyway.. caveat emptor .. or somethingn like that
z---seth

[Zed]

Don't was your $$ on this. Gold has the unique property that it can be thinned out more then any other metal known. I once saw a exibit at a science museum where a BB sized piece of gold was used to wallpaper a whole 10 x 10 wall in gold leaf. My point is that there is almost no gold in those gold leaf in water vials you see at tourist traps. like not even enough to fume 1/50th of a piece. Plus its usually not 24k.

Gold leaf can be used to color peices ala Cesare (trapped between a blow in) and I've had good results putting it on the surface of xmas ornaments (can be scratched off, but only if you try to do it) but it's not enough mass to fume with. maybe if I took all 25 sheets that came in the 4in. by 4in. book and balled them up I could fume a few pieces but that'd be a waste of the $50 premium I payed to get the gold in leaf form in the first place.

[YourMom420]

k, maybe i wont waste my $$$

[VinE]

I know this is a little off subject, but , fyi :
gold flakes that are panned/ unrefined can have nasty chems like arsinic, and cadnium in them too. So don't use unrefined gold straight out the stream.

[smutboy420]

I know this is a little off subject, but , fyi :
gold flakes that are panned/ unrefined can have nasty chems like arsinic, and cadnium in them too. So don't use unrefined gold straight out the stream.

Nuget gold is udealy worth more then reg gold not in its natrual form. So if you have river nugets you can trade them for 24k and work out getting more gold gram fr gram then the nuggets you trade. If they are biger sized nuggets they should be about 2x's the price per oz. Back when gold was in the $500-$600 per oz range my dad could command $800-$1100 for any large sized nuggets.
and higher for larger specimens. So with gold being at an all time high right now the curant fair market price for nugget gold must be pretty up there. Last january I know what ever price it was it was enought my dad sold off every bit of extra gold he had saved over a life time except a small vial, He split up between me and my great neice for keep sakes and some he put back in the ground.
But what ever his buyer offereed him had to be a good price for him to of sold off some of the stuff he did. He even sold of his entire alaskan gold collection.

Tho the funny thing is from what I am peicing together from ones I had spoken to and filling in the missing blanks. He spent a lot of the $ he made just buying more gold and silver. The old man loved his nugets more then some of you all here do. Even if we are talking a difrent kind of nuggets.

[hibraisil]

"Don't was your $$ on this. Gold has the unique property that it can be thinned out more then any other metal known. I once saw a exibit at a science museum where a BB sized piece of gold was used to wallpaper a whole 10 x 10 wall in gold leaf. My point is that there is almost no gold in those gold leaf in water vials you see at tourist traps. like not even enough to fume 1/50th of a piece."

I bought a vial of 23kt leaf in alcohol for 5 bucks, drained it and picked up half the contents with a qtip. I then balled this up with my fingers and put the ball on my graphite and dabbed it up with a hot rod. This resulted in a little pellet forming that is maybe the size of a poppy seed. I've fumed a pendant and two pipes to a deep pink and the pellet is still there. It's not very good fuming, but these are the first three things I've tried to fume so that's probably my fault.

Also, a lot of the leaf ends up as superfine powder stuck in your fingerprints. Looks pretty cool. He he.

[Loïc]

I Say, do like me , and ENCASE or stick in tubes whats left in your GoldSchlager Bottle !! lol

even if there is like 10¢ worth of it in it.. its god for 2~3 decent pipes with flakes in em, just stick em inside the tubes....