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

Bambu Filament and Accesories
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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:

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from left to right BBL old, Polymaker, BBL new

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Polymaker left, BBL old right

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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?

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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.

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Do you have pictures you’d care to share?

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I will take a picture under natural light tomorrow.

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

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

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

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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.

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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 ):

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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