Kintsugi Pot Repair

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While I wait for the pot to cure, I figured I'd post some pictures of some other repaired work I've completed. Here is a repaired Sara Rayner piece that had a small chip in it. The gold is very matches the clay very nicely.

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Chips are my all time preferred repairs because they're fully functional.
 

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One nice thing about broken pots are, that at raffles, they don't get picked. But I pick them. This chipped pot was repaired with silver. A much larger chip which requires a natural composite of flour, clay, wood dust, and lacquer creates a material that is very dense, very hard and very strong. This is the same pot I showed earlier with a design, but I stripped the design off and regilded it with silver.

I'm going to just leave it as silver.
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Not bonsai related but this is one of my more labor intensive repairs. Lots of missing bits and pieces on this yixing zisha tea pot. It get's renewed life. Quite proud of this one. It's for my sister's boyfriend. This teapot used to belong to his dad and he's no longer with us. This is a nice sentimental piece.

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I was able to fill in the very obvious voids and also had the time to apply the finishing as well. The pot is now ready for refinement polishing to make the surface very smooth to receive the gold powder. Will likely have to go through 2-3 cycles to get this to look flush. But so far so good!
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This may look wet but it is past its tacky phase and is now unreactive to the touch. The foot is very sturdy and the pot feels very solid. Can't want to further refine this pot.
 
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