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2 years, 9 months ago

How are “gilded” items made with metal plating? Such as flowers or leaves coated in gold?

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever heard been gilded?
I heard that someone did deceased turtles (gross) in copper but I don't know if that is myth.
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badaspie | 2 years, 9 months ago
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There are several methods for plating metal onto delicate organic objects such as leaves and flowers. The easiest is to use a paint containing metal particles. Other methods include two-part treatments, where a metal salt is combined with a reducing agent to precipitate metal onto the surface, and preparing the material with a spray-on conductor prior to conventional electroplating.

Although there are undoubtedly plenty of weird things that have been plated in metal, the most lucrative may have been the product (literally!) of an artist who sold an exhibit of what he claimed were his gold-plated feces for $500,000 (no images available--is that fortunate or unfortunate?).

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geekmiser | 2 years, 9 months ago Report

eww, gross - don't drop that art!!!

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videopia | 2 years, 9 months ago
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Not an expert on this one, but I think "gilding" is a physical process and means hammering or painting thin sheets of metal onto a surface, like gold leaf to highlight parts of a picture frame.

You probably mean "electroplating" which involves using an electrical current passing through an object to attract metal particles in a solution to adhere to the surface of the object.

As near as I can tell, you can electroplate almost anything that will pass a current, so "weirdest" thing is probably whatever you can imagine, with "dead turtle" probably not being all that weird!

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geekmiser | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I actually purchased a rose for an ex-girlfriend that was coated in silver - but the process they said they used was dipping, not electro-plating. So I think it depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

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