Gold toner ingredients

[mermaid bicycle]

I'm doing some toning experiments and want to work with gold toner. I have recipes for the various gold toners such as Nelson's gold. I'm confused about which gold chloride I need to acquire though. Photographers formulary sells various solutions but I believe the recipes call for gold chloride in powder form. Could someone link to the correct product or provide guidance? I know it's expensive these days. This whole hobby is.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I'm doing some toning experiments and want to work with gold toner. I have recipes for the various gold toners such as Nelson's gold. I'm confused about which gold chloride I need to acquire though. Photographers formulary sells various solutions but I believe the recipes call for gold chloride in powder form. Could someone link to the correct product or provide guidance? I know it's expensive these days. This whole hobby is.

photography has always been for the rich

 

[xkaes]

Gold chloride comes in powder or liquid form. The only difference is that the gold chloride is mixed with water or not. If you get it in a powder form you can mix it to the percentage that you want. If it's in a liquid form, it's already mixed at a certain percentage -- usually 1% or 10%. The important thing is to figure out how much gold chloride you are actually getting in either form. The formula that you use will tell you how much powder to use -- but it usually says how much liquid at a certain percentage.

Even though gold chloride is expensive, you don't really need much at all to get into it. A little goes a LONG way!

 

[retina_restoration]

"Gold chloride" is a bit of a misnomer, but it is the name that persists because historically that's what it was called. But what you want is actually Chloroauric Acid. Artcraft sells it under both names: https://artcraftchemicals.com/products/gold-chloride-solid-part-1700?_pos=1&_psq=gold&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Unfortunately it has become extremely expensive in the past 2 years ($136 for 1 gram)

The simplest Gold Toner you can make (in my opinion) is the two part toner in which Part A is the Chloroauric acid and Part B is Ammonium thiocyanate.

 

[mermaid bicycle]

Thanks! I'm chemistry challenged so didn't really understand the solution vs dry situation. Now it makes sense!

 

[DREW WILEY]

The cost of gold itself is at an all time high. A 100ml bottle of 1% gold chloride went from $75 a couple years ago to around $150 now. I use a personal variation of the GP1 formula. It can't be re-used, but because only a tiny amount is needed per session, a single bottle of 1% will last me over a year. GP1 works best for cold toning. Lots of recommended formulas waste gold like crazy. It actually takes very little.

 

[mermaid bicycle]

The cost of gold itself is at an all time high. A 100ml bottle of 1% gold chloride went from $75 a couple years ago to around $150 now. I use a personal variation of the GP1 formula. It can't be re-used, but because only a tiny amount is needed per session, a single bottle of 1% will last me over a year. GP1 works best for cold toning. Lots of recommended formulas waste gold like crazy. It actually takes very little.

Care to share your formula?

 

[DREW WILEY]

I'll fetch it tomorrow maybe. It's out in the lab.

 

[Samu]

"Gold chloride" is a bit of a misnomer, but it is the name that persists because historically that's what it was called. But what you want is actually Chloroauric Acid. Artcraft sells it under both names: https://artcraftchemicals.com/products/gold-chloride-solid-part-1700?_pos=1&_psq=gold&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Unfortunately it has become extremely expensive in the past 2 years ($136 for 1 gram)

The simplest Gold Toner you can make (in my opinion) is the two part toner in which Part A is the Chloroauric acid and Part B is Ammonium thiocyanate.

Because gold price is very high at present, also chloroauric acid is expensive. This is what you get if you put gold in aqua regia.