Gary Navarre on sat 22 jan 05
Hay Crew,
I've seen the method used in the Orient to repair special pots in a book
somewhere and think the piece is somehow wired together with ocher and
gold in the seams but don't remember the entire process or it's name.
Got any information?
Why I'm wanting to know how to do this is Bruce Dibboll gave me the last
piece "Jack" Foster worked on before he pased and after I glaze fired it
in my last kiln I was about to refire it in Western Michigan
University's salt kiln and I broke it before firing. Right now it is
super glued together and in my shrine. Can I take it to bisquet to burn
off the super glue before repairing the bowl? I need to properly repair
this piece or Bruce won't stop teasing me about breaking Jack's last
pot.
Thanks for the cards and letters folks, I am feeling better but need to
build stamina back. That won't happen overnight. Stay in there!
G in Da UP
Navarre Pottery
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
Lee Love on sun 23 jan 05
gnavarre@uplogon.com wrote:
> I've seen the method used in the Orient to repair special pots in a book
>somewhere and think the piece is somehow wired together with ocher and
>gold in the seams but don't remember the entire process or it's name.
>Got any information?
>
Hi Gary,
As Rick mentioned, traditionally it is done with lacquer and
gold, but I remember seeing on NHK, a demonstration where the pieces
were glued together with epoxy and then gold powder was sprinkled on the
epoxy seams while the glue was still tacky. I imagine you could use
gold leaf on the epoxy seams too. Unlike superglue, epoxy dries
slowly and gives you time to apply the gold. As I remember, the
gold is later gently polished with a cloth.
Maybe you could bust up a less precious pot and practice on that?
At our local antique/junk shop (I've also seen it at the flea
market), they use a gold magic marker to color in the cracks where
they suerglue piece together. Sort of a "hillbilly" repair. ;-)
Gary, did you know the original useage of hillbilly was: "backwoods
Michigan dirtfarmer"? :-)
A friend of mine dug up a very old Korean pot from a
pile a garbage once, while he was visiting Korean. He repaired a chuck
missing out of it that was broken off the rim with Bondo or Black Magic,
and then painted it with gold paint. Looked pretty good.
--
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