Greetings! I'm trying out gilding edges for the first time, and I've run into a problem that none of my resources mention. I can get a nice shiny gilt surface on the edge, but when everything's done and dried and I try to separate the pages, much of the gold flakes off. I bent the book first, then went through page by page and un-stuck the ones that were still together. When I separated the pages, gold from one page would come away with the page next to it rather than staying on the top of its own page. Have any of you encountered this before? Suggestions?
I'm using an egg-and-vinegar glaire to seal the pages, then my orchre base layer, then another layer of glaire to stick the gold down.