From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/26/02-05:43:57 PM Z
Chris,
The trick is not to let the solution boil or even start to boil.
I don't guild plates. I like them in their original silver. Guilding is
supposed to harden them and make them last longer, but it the package is
well sealed, guiulding should not be necessary.
Bob Schramm
>From: Christopher Lovenguth <zantzant@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Was someone asking about printing daguerreotypes from film?
>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:05:26 +0000
>
>I have recieved almost all my information (when not from someone on this
>list) from a website called: www.newdags.com
>
>This site explains all the different steps including gilding to make a
>daguerreotype.
>
>For me I'm still learning the gilding process. It either works or destroys
>my plate. I think my problems come from the heating process. My image tends
>to start disintegrating. I have gone to a reduced mixture of gold chloride
>and that is helping. It is suppose to be a 5% mixture but I have reduced it
>by half. So I have my 5% mixture and doubling it with water. Then I add the
>same amount of sodium sulfite (I forget what the percentage is, I think it
>is .5 oz to 500ml of water) solution. So 100ml of my reduced gold chloride
>solution and 100ml of the sodium sulfite solution
>
>
>BTW does anyone know the dangers in heating a gold chloride/sodium sulfite
>mixture? The first time I did it I got a little woozy and have become
>afraid of heating without all windows open and pretty much holding my
>breath when I'm next to the pan it's heating in. Has anyone had that
>experience or was that all in my head the first time it happened? -Chris
>
>
>>From: filmpro <filmpro@mac.com>
>>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>>Subject: Re: Was someone asking about printing daguerreotypes from film?
>>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:55:01 -0700
>>
>> > I come home around 6pm and fix it with
>> >hypo, wash and guild. Thatís it.
>>
>>
>>Can you describe the guild process?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Mac
>
>
>
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