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  • Home
  • REPAIR SERVICE
  • Shop & Booking
  • what's on
  • Kintsugi in Kyoto
  • What is kintsugi ?
  • Repairing a single break
  • Repairing a chip
  • Applying Urushi and Metalllic powder
  • Sealing, Polishing silver and gold finish
  • Filling in a missing piece
  • How to re-do.
  • Badly-damaged lamp to repair
  • Mugi Urushi
  • Kokuso
  • SABI
  • Shita-nuri, Naka nuri
  • How to repair leaking crack
  • How to use starter kit

How to make and apply
fine Urushi putty 
Sabi

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To fill a small chip, pin hole or gap in a break, you use Sabi. Sabi is much finer than Kokuso, but  this technique is not strong enough for a large repair.
Youtube link:
Kintsugi, Sabi . Urushi Putty,
 

You need, 
​Tonoko (polishing powder), 
Ki-Urushi, 
A dash of water,
Acetone

 
Tools
Disposable gloves , 
A white plate, or glass work surface, 
A spatula , 
#3000 wet and dry sandpaper, 
Box to keep your plate safe 
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Preparation
When you use urushi, always wear disposable gloves.
 

Apply diluted Ki-urushi with gum turps (50:50), using cotton swab or brush on areas where you need to apply Sabi. Then place in Box. (Keep for a day in a box if you have time.) The photo is for preparation of Urushi Glue, but the work is the same.
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Making Sabi / Fine Urushi putty
Make wet Tonoko by mixing Tonoko and water to form a moistened solid ball then add Ki-Urushi little by little to wet Tonoko. Proportion
: Ki-urushi : wet Tonoko≒1: 1.2
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Fill the chip and gap also cover rough surfaces with Sabi by using a spatula or a stick.
You can make runny Sabi mixing Kiurushi and Tonoko in equal  amount to apply to any tiny gap in the repair. 
Keep in a box for about three days till it sets.  Before it sets completely , clean excess Sabi with acetone.
 
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Polish Sabi with sanding paper with water. Take care not to damage surface of item with sand paper. 
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Repeat this Sabi application until you achieve smooth surface. 
When you finish application of Sabi,
 You can seal with diluted Ki-urush to harden Sabi. Please refer to Sealing, Polishing silver and gold finish. Now you can move on to Undercoat / Middle coat (Shita-nuri, Naka nuri)

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If it is small chip or gap of break, you can fill them with  sabi directly , no need to fill with kokuso before sabi.
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