Here is a cup I am working on right now. It was broken when it got to me. I am about to finish the sanding of the middle layer and filling some of the hairline cracks. There haven’t been any problems with this cup, it went back together easily and fit well.
This video shows kintsugi gold Step #3. It is the second application of jozuri. This is the final step of pre-polishing for graded metal. It is possible and sometimes necessary to do another application of jozuri, it depends on how well your previous applications covered the metal.
This is the first application of jozuri. You apply jozuri in order to ‘harden’ the metal in preparation of sanding or polishing it to a finished brilliance.
This is something I am doing as a learning project with a teacher who studied makie.
The carved lacquer has come off this very old whisk. The whisk itself dates to at least the Edo period but since it is damaged no one wanted it at the antiques auction I picked it up at.
The first step was to remove all the loose lacquer and then to apply a middle black in order to stabilize the remaining lacquer. Kamakura bori whisk
