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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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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This video shows final polishing of black. After this is gold. There is also a nyu, a fine crack, which I applied lacquer to and sanded off.
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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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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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This video shows applying sabi. I cut the sabi that was in place way back since it was so hard from sitting around so long. Super hard sabi is difficult to shape.
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This video shows removing sabi from a piece that has been sitting around for over a year. The sabi is very hard and I am removing most of the parts in order to reapply it.
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This video isn’t about kintsugi but kasugai, staple repair. 鎹 修理,
The video shows fitting pure copper staples to the body of the bowl. I am using regular hand held burner to heat them, the staples are held on kiln bricks which are fireproof. The third staple fitting fails and that is the end of the video. I straightened out the points of that staple and then refitted it.
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These videos aren’t about kintsugi but kasugai, staple repair. 鎹 修理,
These videos show filing pure copper in order to make staples. I am using a flat file. The copper is from electrical wiring.
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This video isn’t about kintsugi but kasugai, staple repair. 鎹 修理,
This video shows sharpening of the tips, the parts that will go into the holes in the ceramic body. I am using a flat file. The staples are held in place by a mini vise. These staples are the ones in part 2 that are the 3rd set I made, from steel.
I will probably make 1 more set from pure copper.
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