What's the difference?

Simple, gold leaf balls last for decades. They also don't reflect the sun back in your eyes. Gold leaf absorbs much of the light so the gold looks really like gold.

The gold's sun absorption creates a luster to your gold ball that gives your Flagpole a totally unique, modern but traditional, sophisticated, highest quality, commanding look that people will admire for no understood reason; other than they know something is special about your Flag and Flagpole setup.  The gold leaf ball is key.

A serious point to be made: gold leaf balls will keep your Flagpole looking brand new for decades.  Standard aluminum gold balls that you see on most to all Flagpoles are oddly shinny and a bit unpleasant to look at when compared to gold leaf.  

Where gold leaf stays the same for decades; aluminum fades quickly into a old beer can yellow and or silver.  Also gold leaf copper ball "ferrels" [the part that connects the gold ball to the Flagpole pulley truck] are very strong.  Aluminum gold balls are weak and will bend over time.

Remember what the job of the gold ball is; it is to help the Flag slide back off the top of the Flagpole after an updraft has draped the Flag over the top of the Flagpole.

This is why flying an Eagle on top of your Flagpole is risky business; because if a tattered Flag lops up on top of your Flagpole, especially with an spread winged Eagle, then you are going to get a snag.  That snag will now create a sail. That sail is going to rip back and forth and tug and pull and finally either the Flag will rip off of the spread winged Eagle or the Eagle's wing will snap off and you'll have a broken winged Eagle.  We have seen it happen. Many times.

Here at ApexFlags.com we like gold leaf copper balls. All of our Flagpoles come standard with a gold leaf copper ball.  Also standard on all ApexFlags.com Flagpoles is wire-core rope halyard, hardened brass hardware, and all the quality you should expect when investing in a Flagpole.

If you have any questions, please contact our Flagpole Division at Flagpoles@ApexFlags.com.

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