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E&Cplus3



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:48 pm    Post subject: questions about using enamels Reply with quote

I have a question about employing translucent enamels in geocoin design. Is it possible to layer enamels?

I am thinking of a coin design where parts of the coin are filled with soft enamel, and then the whole coin is covered with a hard translucent enamel. This would create a coin with the normal metal texturing under the translucent enamel... but would also have some coloured areas as well.

Is this even possible? I am thinking it would create an extra step. The colour enamel would have to be fired first before the translucent enamel is added.

Just to add another twist, could glow-in-the-dark enamels be used under translucent enamels? Would enough light penetrate to 'charge' the glow enamel?

These are probable wierd questions, but it all relates to a personal coin project I have in mind.

Thanks for reading all the way through! Very Happy
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Tooey



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why not ask the mint direct - they are the ones that will be able to tell you what is and what is not possible. I posted the contact details in here somewhere.

Here it is http://geocoins.easyphpbb.com/viewtopic.php?t=274
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fox-and-the-hound



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:14 am    Post subject: Re: questions about using enamels Reply with quote

E&Cplus3 wrote:
I have a question about employing translucent enamels in geocoin design. Is it possible to layer enamels?

I am thinking of a coin design where parts of the coin are filled with soft enamel, and then the whole coin is covered with a hard translucent enamel. This would create a coin with the normal metal texturing under the translucent enamel... but would also have some coloured areas as well.

Is this even possible? I am thinking it would create an extra step. The colour enamel would have to be fired first before the translucent enamel is added.

Just to add another twist, could glow-in-the-dark enamels be used under translucent enamels? Would enough light penetrate to 'charge' the glow enamel?

These are probable wierd questions, but it all relates to a personal coin project I have in mind.

Thanks for reading all the way through! Very Happy


Yes it is possible. I've done a couple times already. Check out Team A.C.E.'s personal coin. We did multiple colored enamels for the Attitude Indicator side and then covered the whole side with a thick clear enamel afterword to give it the feel of the actual glass and metal guage. I also did it with the Cache Critters geocoin (spider side) for the same effect. I'm guessing the glow would work the same way.
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