BBL Silk gold PLA discontinued, new Silk + looks nothing like it

[frank.d]

Hi,
I have been very disappointed with the look of the new PLA Silk + gold compared to the discontinued old. It looks very yellow (cheep), like all the other silk PLAs from other companies.
If you are looking for something more like old gold check out Polymaker Silk gold. It is close to the old BBL filament, you will have difficulties differentiating them.
I have not tried the relabeled PanChroma Silk gold from Polymaker, but their support assured me it is has not changed just the name and packaging.
Hope this was helpful to someone.

Some more details and photos:

from left to right BBL old, Polymaker, BBL new

Polymaker left, BBL old right

Polymaker left, BBL old right

The main differences between the two are:

• Polymaker has less sheen
• Polymaker is more translucent
• Polymaker has better interlayer adhesion

If the old BBL Silk gold would still be available - I would buy it (Despite the terrible interlayer adhesion). It was the closest to my idea of a golden finish.

Has anyone tested the new Polymaker Panchroma silk gold and can let us, if it is really just rebranded?

[BambuBanker]

I got the red and green silk PLA+ and the colors are very rich and look great. Could kinda see that the gold didn’t look great on their website when I was going to order it.

[Olias]

Do you have pictures you’d care to share?

[frank.d]

I will take a picture under natural light tomorrow.

[STATERA]

I just got the new gold and it sucks. The old gold looked great. The new gold just looks like shiny yellow. Very disappointing.

[iammiro]

Same here. I wish I googled and saw this thread before I ordered mine a few weeks ago

This new yellow color is nothing even close to the original gold and noble.

[Jester99504]

I’m in the same boat as all of you. Just ordered two rolls of the new stuff assuming it would be similar to the old stuff. It is terrible. I was hoping for gold and got shiny yellow. Extremely disappointing.

[flabbyorca]

i just got some polymaker gold because it was similar to the old bl silk gold but it seems they may have also changed theirs because it looks more like a mustardy poop colour now than gold ):

[Bullocks]

iBoss makes a PLA+ variant of silk gold that prints well, looks like a deep and burnished gold (not vivid brightly polished gold) and despite being silk, seems actually as strong as a PLA+. Prints slow, but really good IMO

[frank.d]

Thanks @Bullocks ! Bought the iBoss PLA+ shiny silk and I like it very much. Looks good (actually not so shiny) and prints without nicely.

From left to right: BBL new silk gold, BBL old silk gold, iBoss shiny silk gold

[Brannor]

I miss the old gold… it was so good… mad that I have 2-3 spools of the new gold and we hate it…

Why?! Whyyyy?!!

[Eponymous]

The best upgrade for your home prints is a can of spray paint and a basic art school course.

(The process might not scale very well for print farms)

[Brannor]

Ok. So I tried out some different golds. I had this old 300 shield that I had done with the old BBL gold - top left. It was 0.1 layers with no smoothing. The other 3 are printed at 0.08mm with smoothing… I don’t think the smoothing looks good, but I wanted to try get as much shine from them to compare against the old one.

If looking at the 4 from the front:

Top left: BBL Original PLA Silk Gold

Top right: BBL New PLA Silk+ Gold

Bottom left: eSun PLA Silk Gold

Bottorm right: iBoss PLA Silk Gold

I printed the eSun and iBoss using the generic PLA Silk profile.

[Brannor]

Ok, added a 5th and final print. The bottom one is CC3D, and I think it is actually the closest to the original Bambu.