Tag Archives: Chinese vase

Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 5, polishing #4 silver, Chinese vase

This video shows step #5, polishing #4 silver.   I started this yesterday and thought I had taken a video and only hit the camera button so I restarted it today which is why it looks partially done at the beginning.  Unfortunately today while taking the video I broke through in 2 places down to red so I may take all the silver off and re-apply it.   I am using a #1,000 stone to polish.

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Traditional, lacquer based kintsugi, step 2, applying first hardening lacquer, Chinese vase

This video shows step #2, applying first hardening lacquer to #4 silver.   I applied the silver last Friday and this application is 7 days after that.  After applying the hardening lacquer I dab it off with tissue. Each dab shows a lighter colored stain than the time before and dab until there is no stain.

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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, 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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