Kintsugi for beginners

Starfox said:
That is super cool and looks like even I can pull that off, thank you for sharing.
Out of interest could you use silver leaf or some of the coloured leafs?
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If you use fine silver it works quite well. By “fine” means pure silver, just as this is fine gold. Both are inert and do not tarnish. Pure silver leaf is also available on amazon. Sterling silver has copper content which makes it tarnish.
 
That was amazing! I would not have imagined that could be done. Excellent job and pictures! Thanks for the show.
 
Good work but one must ask why not hide break instead of emphasizing it:confused:?
 
Potawatomi13 said:
Good work but one must ask why not hide break instead of emphasizing it:confused:?
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FWIW, the hard truth is that it depends on what broke and how it broke. This is a pretty clean break on a pot that might be worth the trouble. In my breakage, it's usually more than one piece on a pot that isn't worth saving. Kintsugi in Japan is typically reserved for finer work--the emphasis on the break lends to the ceramics esthetic--in a "chicks dig scars" kind of thing. Break shows history and perseverance...
 
I did this to a pot that I broke that I really liked. I did not do as fine a job as the OP, but the result is a useable pot again. I used a powdered gold and just added it to the two part epoxy that was the glue component. That way it was really only one step, although since the pot was large with many breaks, I had to do it over a period of two weeks to allow each new piece to harden as I rebuilt it. I may try to go back and clean up the excess of the glue someday, but I'm pretty happy with the overall idea of having a unusable pot back.
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JudyB said:
I did this to a pot that I broke that I really liked. I did not do as fine a job as the OP, but the result is a useable pot again. I used a powdered gold and just added it to the two part epoxy that was the glue component. That way it was really only one step, although since the pot was large with many breaks, I had to do it over a period of two weeks to allow each new piece to harden as I rebuilt it. I may try to go back and clean up the excess of the glue someday, but I'm pretty happy with the overall idea of having a unusable pot back.
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Bonsai Echo just did this on his YouTube channel, but not to the same extent as you
 
ABCarve said:
Well here is a lesson in not picking up your bonsai by the trunk!!!!! This was the 2nd pot I ever made. It was soda fired, a favorite type of firing for me. It's now going up on Bonsai Pot Auction.
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Okay.
Now I'm waiting for your kintsugi demo.

waiting .... ;)
 
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