Shooter

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The gold leaf is "shot"

A Anschießer is a from the roof -, camel or squirrel hair produced about 25 to 100 mm wide brush .

The shooter is electrostatically charged by stroking the arms, cheeks or hair of the user and the leaf metal "sticks" to the brush until it is transferred to the prepared surface. With the tips of the grouped in cardboard or wood brush hairs is in gilding the loose gold leaf or -silver removed from the paper and onto the substrate shot . The trim material must be soft enough that the gold leaf does not tear or be pierced.

Nowadays, gates are also made with synthetic hair.

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