Mona Lisa Metal Leaf Adhesive Made in USA - 2 oz Size for Gold Silver Copper Gilding - Water Based Craft Glue

Been using this on a few silver leafing projects lately. It’s adhesive is strong, easy to open bottle, priced well, and cures quickly!

Works well for affixing gold leaf

Good quality glue for gold leaf. I’ve tried many and this is the best

Works as described.

I’ve used this for many things already and I love it. It rubs off if you mess up. If you let it dry all the way it has very strong adhesion for the type of glue it is. It will work for gold leaf obviously, but it’ll work for leather straps being kept in place on a chest or for reapplying old stickers or making your own window stickers! I love this stuff and a little goes a long way! Stir it first!

This worked great. I never needed to wait 30 minutes for it to turn clear. I suggest practicing on something less important first. I watched many YouTube videos and people used tweezers , thus tearing the foil up to the put on large spaces. Drop the tweezers. Put the Mona Lisa Sizing on your item and set aside. If your foil is inside paper holders , lay out the amount you think you’ll need with the flimsier side of paper facing upwards. Now carefully fold the protective paper back half way and crease to keep open. Do this for several or all of your planned foil pieces. When the sizing turns clear, carefully pick up a foil ‘holder and have the side that’s half exposed facing outwards. Apply that edge to your item to be gilded. Then you can tilt item and move hand releasing the rest of the foil. Use smooth paper to slide over foil to smooth. You may want more area exposed at the beginning. It will definitely look better than if done with tweezers in small bits. Also buy the Speedball Varnish to seal your work after the glue has completely dried. It’s an important step and dries quickly.

Easy to use

It's ok if you know what you're doing. You have to pay close attention to the drying time because it does depend on the room temperature. I had a problem getting it dry completely. There were some places on the item I was using it on that are still a little tacky after a week. The main issue I have with it is that it doesn't work on some surfaces.

Excellent sizer when used with natural bristle brush, its water based so it takes really 24 hours to really dry. Use natural bristle brush for carved surface or canvas, on other plain walls pop after base coat use with cotton cloth or use spray version

Great leaf painting product

I was apprehensive to buy this after seeing reviews of the solution solidifying, but no problems from my experience. The bottle is very small but you don’t need much. I didn’t even use 1/8 of the bottle. I was applying faux gold leaf sheets to acrylic sheets for my wedding signs and they turned out great. Because I was using such little dabs of this with a paint brush I didn’t really “wait” for this to dry like recommended, applied the leaf sheets almost immediately and it worked like a charm. Really happy with the results, and now I want to gold leaf everything! I would recommend.

Used is a month ago and it still feel tacky now.

Saw this in a youtube video and was surpised to get it so quickly and cheaply. Awesome glue for gold leafing. Kinda hard to get off your hands,