George D Gabert
During a Roy Brewer seminar, I saw a demonstration of laserbits laser foil in polished gold. It looked pretty good. Lasered pattern in wood and then placed foil over wood and then vector cut foil. You might then be able to clear cost wood and foil.
Another method might be to engrave wood and fill with gold guilders paint, prior to sealing box.
I tried some Laserfoil but I just vector cut it. If you raster out a recess, doesn't the foil get the texture off the bottom of the recess when you burnish it? Seems it would. I have a roll of Laserfoil on order so I will have some to play with.
Jeff in northern Wisconsin