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Originally Posted by Jelly Terror
Colin,
My understanding is that gilt brass, is brass that has a gold coating. Gilding (in this sense) is a finishing process. If something has a gilt finish, it has been gilded or gilt, whereas gilding-metal, is an alloy.
One is a coating process, and the other is an alloy.
Am I correct in thinking that you may be confusing 'gilding metal' (the process of coating metals with a gold finish) with 'gilding-metal' (i.e. brass)?
Regards,
JT
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Thanks JT!
Yeah - as you can tell, I'm out of my depth here, but trying to get my head around it 
Cheers
Colin
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