Geeetech Silk PLA Gold Filament 1.75mm, 1KG Metallic Filament

This is my first time trying Geetech filament. I needed a good fossil/bone color for some prints I am making for an upcoming birthday party, and my wife and I liked this color the most. I grabbed it during Prime Day for $10 off, so I was willing to take a chance. The spool is noticeably more narrow than what I am used to. I actually checked the box again to make sure I really ordered a 1 kg roll. Even with the smaller profile, it worked fine in my AMS HT, so no concern there. The next question was how well it would print. I have run several prints using the standard Bambu PLA profile and the results have been solid. No adhesion issues, no stringing problems, and the overall finish looks good. The bone color is excellent. The dinosaur fossils I have printed so far look great and match the theme perfectly. At the price I paid ($14.52), this filament is a very good buy. The current price is $24. At $24 I would probably pass, not because the filament is bad, but because there are many filaments in this range that perform just as well. If you catch it at the right price, it is absolutely worth picking up.

Yeah, when your 3-D print something or something is made of plastic, it’s not going to be 100% like metallic gold even if you see metallic gold in real life it doesn’t look like metallic gold so people saying this doesn’t look like metallic gold well that’s it’s gonna be impossible because only metallic gold looks like that. This is product of a good imitation gold look how uses for coins plastic coins I mean, you know and I’ve used it for other highlights on my work and it works really well. You know frankly it is a little yellow but for a layer to layer thing on 3-D printing, you really can’t do better than this kind of color gold you gotta sand it down or use some kind of you know like smoother which most people are not gonna do and I think this is a good substitute for using a real luster or shine gold? I can’t find anything closer on Amazon so this is really the best you’re gonna do when it comes to metallic gold imitation however like any 3-D printer thing you have to know what surface it’s going to to see the effect beforehand because if it’s just too thin a layer or it’s just not configured properly doesn’t have the right settings there you go I think this product is what is advertised. It actually provides a gold look of plastic. There’s certain things you can do to smooth it out, but you know those are on the printer operator to do not the plastic company.

Apparently I can't write a separate review for a different color, so I'm adding the Silk Black to this review. It turned out very nice. It was shiny, and the quality was great. I dried it for about 4 hours after I got it, just to be sure. This is the 2nd Geeetech filament I've purchased and both were as good, or better, than some more expensive brands. I bought some black and red PETG, so I'll see how those turn out. *UPDATE: I upgraded from 3 to 5 stars based on their customer support. I gave this product a 3 with the explanation below. They responded quickly through Amazon and were sincerely concerned with my issues. They made an offer and suggestion that I did not expect, and was pleasantly surprised by. They said they would contact manufacturing and would resolve the issues. GREAT customer support! The product printed perfectly fine. I just had an issue with the final finish - so I will definitely buy filament from Geeetech again! Unless there are better settings, my X1C prints are not as pretty or shiny as the picture. It printed with layers that had different shades. Maybe with an acetone vapor bath it may look better, but I wasn't overly impressed. The bottom (contact with plate) layer, however, looks fantastic. I didn't bother to dry it, but it printed just fine with no stranding or clogging. It's good quality filament, but the finish is underwhelming.

EDIT: The seller contacted me, refunded me, and even sent me a spool of a different gold they have. This gold is AMAZING. The best gold I've used so far. It looks the most like real gold and printed fantastically. I have included a picture of the new GOOD gold. The seller should remove the 3-pack since it seems to be a completely different product. OLD REVIEW about the gold/silver/copper pack which appears to be a totally different product: Absolute garbage. I don't know if other people are using a different gold because their pictures look great and the gold looks like a different color. I have the gold + silver + copper bundle. I've only tried the gold but man is it bad. The layer adhesion is so bad. It looks like an old stretched out slinky. My first print did immediately detached from the plate, which I haven't had happen in 50+ prints. After that, my print failed part-way through because a piece fell off. Even if it hadn't, I'd still throw it away (see my pic). I printed a third time and it was hardly passable. I tried changing several settings to make it work. Only minor improvements each time. I even tested printing the exact same thing with another PLA silk filament and it looks far better. Don't get the bundle and be wary of any of the other products.

When it prints right it looks great! I have printed many awesome things with this first try. Only issue is it seems slightly too brittle and hard to print for any fine detail prints which is a shame since I planned on using the gold for small halos on top of an angel figure. The best print i got has a variation in thickness of 1mm which is alot But that geometry without supports isn't super easy for any filaments. It doesn't have the best layer adhesion, i brushed the one in the photos slightly too hard and the halo broke off towards the bottom where i ended up superglueing it back. The Halo was maybe twice the thickness of spaghetti but even easier to crumble. Definitely not an amazing filament for printing small details like a halo but great for ones without the small details The photo of the angel is after doing every calibration print I could, making sure it was completely dry and probably my 10th-15th try, which was my best one BTW Geeetech is an amazing company though that cares about its customers and providing the best products, they contacted me on their own terms about my struggles with printing the halo and listened to my feedback. They passed along my concerns to the factory where they will see about fixing the issues i had and ensure they are selling the best products they can as well as made sure they did everything they could to compensate me for the trouble i had with the filament without me having to ever ask. you can trust that if you order from them they will do everything they can to make sure your experience is good so you don't ever have to worry when buying from them.

I am absolutely thrilled with this Geeetech Silk Gold PLA. Right off the printer, the models have an incredible, deep metallic sheen that looks like polished armor. The knight bust came out looking spectacular without requiring any post-processing or polishing.It feeds perfectly into my printer with zero tangling issues on the spool. I printed at 210°C with the bed at 60°C and slowed my outer wall speed down slightly, which really maximized the glossy silk finish. Layer adhesion is surprisingly strong for a silk filament, and I haven't experienced any clogs, stringing, or bubbling. The dimensional accuracy is highly consistent throughout the entire roll.If you want a luxurious, eye-catching gold for statues, cosplay props, or display pieces, this is hands-down the best option out there. I will definitely be stocking up on more spools!

I honestly will no longer purchase from this brand. It messed up numerous prince that I tried to make. Everything came out blotchy or stringy, and somehow it actually ended up messing up my heating plate. I normally use bambu labs or sunlu, but they were out of the gold that I needed, and this was the perfect tone of gold. I gave it one more shot and was trying to create dragon eggs for a customer nine hours of me working on this project and it completely destroyed. Everything string started going everywhere. It started coming out in clumps and clogged my machine. It messed up my printing plate let alone it messed up nine hours of work! I am completely upset! I have been 3-D praying for a very long time and I have used plenty of different filament. But this one is very cheaply made. It seems like. And it does not like to adhere to the plate very well at all. I don’t know if it’s because the delivery driver left it out in the rain or if it’s just crappy filament. But I am completely mortified at this point, I really would like to give the seller another shot. Because I’m really hoping maybe I just got a bad batch. But at this point, I am just fuming! Maybe the seller will reach out to me and fix things if so, I will leave an update… now that I have to buy a new plate and figure out how I’m gonna print three dragging eggs for a customer that takes nine hours by 6 AM… yay! FYI there was much more string everywhere that I had to clean up and didn’t get a chance to take a picture of all of that. But here is some of it. Also, for some reason, it purges out very, very, very, very big clumps, compared to any other silk I’ve ever used.

Awesome filament. Gold color is smooth and shines.

COLOR BONITO Y BRILLANTE.

一般的なフィラメントのリールに比べ、リールの直径が大きい為、BambuLabのX1のABSのケースに収まらず使えませんでした。。最悪です。

Buen color

Filamento più resistente della media in termini di resistenza meccanica ed estetica, anche a velocità abbastanza alte (mi sono spinto fino a 100mm/s) Clog poi assente rispetto ad altri PLA normali e adesione ottima anche su PEI Consigliato, spedizione Amazon velocissima

j'ai commander cette référence pour changer du filament esun et faire un comparatif. Au moment de l'ouverture des bobines, aucune des bobine n'est sous vide et l'enroulement du filament sur la bobine est catastrophique. Cela rend les bobines inutilisable sur des chargeurs de filament motorisés. Vis a vis de l'impression, je rencontre beaucoup plus de warping qu'avec le filament esun. Je déconseille fortement.