Original filament or third-party?

[curious aardvark]

I tend to use whoever has what I need in stock. Not had any bad filament in ages, but I am not too choosy and my CTC printer isn't fussy either.

I was disappointed with some filament advertised as silver, but was definitely grey!!

Yeah the only actual silver filament I['ve had is the reprapper tech aluminium stuff. Comes in stiff and flexible and really does look like metal.
It only seesm to be available from their website though. the guys I buy their stuff from in the uk - 3dfilaprint, just have never stocked the metallic filaments. I got samples from globalfsd (which is essentially the same people) but never yet seen a decent sized roll for sale in the uk. Shame as both the alumnium and copper look like actual metals without any farting around with sanding and polishing like the colorfabb stuff.
http://www.reprappertech.com/reprapp...l#.WGkH8blr1D0