Dagger gilding

The dagger is our hardest print. There are lots of faulty prints because of that - some are shifted, some are warped, some are both. They are not good quality enough to sell them.

These daggers can be assembled, just harder then normal. Lots of work and practice to cover everything. So we thought they are good subjects for our experiments with gilding.

We used both golden and silver leafs - imitated ones, of course - to try how the different colors work.

Both colors seems to be working, but of course the silver one is the genuine Bellatrix dagger.

The gilded surface is very fragile, so we used varnish for protection.

We used some green paint mixed into the varnish to color the handle.