This video shows step #1, applying #4 silver. Also, it is horsefly season here in Japan and you can hear 1 or 2 buzzing around.
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Category Archives: Methods/techniques
Methods and techniques of kintsugi
Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, applying red for silver, Chinese vase
This video shows applying red for silver. I stopped the video after about 4 minutes because I am using an old brush and I needed to hold the vase closer to me which would have been out of camera range. Also, it is horsefly season here in Japan and you can hear 1 or 2 buzzing around.
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Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, sanding black, Chinese vase
Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 6, applying sabi, Chinese vase
This video shows manipulating sabi. I applied this sabi made with lacquer and tonoko yesterday. Usually I use jinoko to make sabi and wanted to try tonoko. It looks like I got a bad mixture of lacquer to tonoko as it is still very wet.
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Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 5, shaping sabi again, black bowl 3
This video shows removing and shaping sabi. The sabi I applied a couple of days ago I made with lacquer for glass since I have a tube I want to use up. The sabi is still too soft, it is still cold here in Japan and it isn’t curing fast.
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Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 6, applying sabi, black bowl 2
Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 5, shaping sabi, 1
Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, 鎹 修理, kasugai repair, making staples part 2
This video isn’t about kintsugi but kasugai, staple repair. 鎹 修理,
I made staples from 3 types of metal.
The first is from the copper looking staples that hold cardboard box together. It looks like copper but is just a regular metal with copper color. It is too thick to make a good, flush fitting staple.
The second staple is made from pure copper from electrical line. I flattened it on an anvil. It is easy to bend and file to a point on the bent part which fits in the hole.
The third type of staple is made from a 1.5 mm diameter steel rod, regular steel, not stainless. It was the easiest to bend precisely to size and file points on.
The last photo is of one of the damaged staples which I took out to replace. It is flat, less than .5 mm thick.
The bowl
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Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, 鎹 修理 kasugai repair, staple repair part 1
This video isn’t about kintsugi but kasugai, staple repair.
I bought an antique, large, Chinese bowl that already had 15 staples in it but 3 were missing. I am going to replace the staples and since the holes are already there for them I just need to make 3. This video shows making one, I have already made the other 2. I use a round file in the video since my flat file isn’t very sharp. I am making the staples about 1/10th. mm smaller than the width of the holes to account for heating and contraction.
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Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 5, polishing gold.
Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 5, polishing #3 gold with #3000 stone. I will do subsequent steps in following videos.
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