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I have an unpainted white concave cove-line and it is suggested I use gold 'cove tape' along here to enhance the appearance. Whilst accepting this marine 'go faster' stripe is unlikely to assist with sail trim or reduce my berthing fees, does the team think 'Bright Gold' is preferable to 'Antique Gold'...? Or put the money into the beer kitty instead.....? ;)
 
eat the gold

http://www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk/acatalog/Edible_Gold_Dust___Flake_1.html

and paint a colour stripe matched to your antifoul. Smart. Or colour coordinate with the canvas work on the dodgers and sail cover, AND the antifoul for real bonus points.


Or, if you know someone with a half decent hot air gun, some heat activated tape in a range of colours and materials could be chosen. Ah, turn the cove line into a passive radar reflector if you use a metallic ?

http://www.parafix.com/en/index.cfm/applications/masking-and-masking-tapes/
 
oldbilbo said:
I have an unpainted white concave cove-line and it is suggested I use gold 'cove tape' along here to enhance the appearance. Whilst accepting this marine 'go faster' stripe is unlikely to assist with sail trim or reduce my berthing fees, does the team think 'Bright Gold' is preferable to 'Antique Gold'...? Or put the money into the beer kitty instead.....? ;)
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The bright gold will look like antique gold after a couple of seasons.
 
Oldbibo you've just reminded me of one last job before she floats next week *blast :) My plastic go faster stripe is haggard and peeling...

Seeing as the plastic fantastic stripe is peeling away I thought about painting it, but is this going to be a long and arduous process that I'm going to regret starting?

Removing the old stripe with a heat gun, then cleaning with white spirit is a must, but do you need to prime before applying gold paint? If so I may opt for the pub as well....

Also what gold paint are you thinking about using, a hobby craft gold paint won't last much longer than it takes to sink that first pint :D
 
prime the cove line with a good enamel paint. Dry and then wipe clean with surgical spirit. Apply special gold size (it's clarified gelatine), then gold leaf from slips of paper with a dense very soft brush. Then burnish first with a small roller to compact the leaf into the substrate, and then with a rubbing stick.


I used to see this done each year in the 60's 70s at Lallow's yard in Cowes, on boats such as Morning Cloud, Sasha, Loujaine. However hard the yard hand burnished, the tiny bumps and hollows in the underlying paint reflected back, spilling points of light out as you walked round the boat. It usually lasted a full season, but contact with fenders abraded into the cove line.

We have a local monumental mason who gilds, using exactly the same tools and material.
 
sarabande said:
prime the cove line with a good enamel paint. Dry and then wipe clean with surgical spirit. Apply special gold size (it's clarified gelatine), then gold leaf from slips of paper with a dense very soft brush. Then burnish first with a small roller to compact the leaf into the substrate, and then with a rubbing stick.


I used to see this done each year in the 60's 70s at Lallow's yard in Cowes, on boats such as Morning Cloud, Sasha, Loujaine. However hard the yard hand burnished, the tiny bumps and hollows in the underlying paint reflected back, spilling points of light out as you walked round the boat. It usually lasted a full season, but contact with fenders abraded into the cove line.

We have a local monumental mason who gilds, using exactly the same tools and material.
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Thats super thanks. I'll give this a go and report back. I can see this taking a whole weekend to do well :)
 
I have a gold stripe that will be turning black next winter. Horrid sticky tape that is begining to peel.
 
I've just spoken to my father, who's had a bit of experience with gold leaf, and reckons it would be very difficult, and suggested a gold enamel paint would be easier to apply than gold leaf, especially if its a windy day :D
 
I considered using tape on my cove line, but remembered how the colour fades and tarnishes and the outer lamination breaks up in UV... I rubbed down the cove line, masked it and gave it two coats of acrylic paint, white in my case on a lt blue background. As alrteady said, match the colour to either the antifoul, boot top or canvas gear. It'll last much better than any plastic tape. However, I wonder how well a stripe like the material used by boat names would work. The tricky bit is usually trying to finish the finials to match (no problem with paint).

Rob.
 
if you size up properly, and use the leaf that placed onto slips of paper, you can transfer the gold initially by placing the gold leaf towards the cove line and pressing the paper to secure the leaf. There's not need to take it off the paper. There's a proper name fro this process, but like Cuchilo's asparagus, it escapes me presently. I'll probably remember it in the middle of tonight's NFU Committee meeting.
 
timmygobang said:
I've just spoken to my father, who's had a bit of experience with gold leaf, and reckons it would be very difficult, and suggested a gold enamel paint would be easier to apply than gold leaf, especially if its a windy day :D
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That's interesting. I had a bit of success with the gold enamel paint I used when refurb'ing our village post box a year ago. I must go down there and have a close look at how well it has lasted....

There's a little left in one of the little pots. If it's viable, I may try some on the round spots in the finial mouldings. Trubl is, if I start doing stuff like that, I'll attract the wrong kind of crew....who'll be too awed to pee over the side at night and insist on matching cutlery to eat their mugs of soup! :rolleyes:



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