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  • Filling in a missing piece
  • How to re-do.
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  • Home
  • Plates and tools for sale
  • Home
  • REPAIR SERVICE
  • What is kintsugi ?
  • Tool Shop
  • ONLINE LESSONS and THE NEXT
  • 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
  • Kintsugi in Kyoto
  • Mugi Urushi
  • Kokuso
  • SABI
  • Shita-nuri, Naka nuri
  • How to use stater kit
  • Plates and tools for sale
  • Home
  • Plates and tools for sale

 Sealing, Polishing silver and gold finish

The final sealing coat is important to prolong the life of silver and gold finishes for everyday use and also can give a darkening antique effect on a brass repair.
You can skip sealing if you like much shinier finish. 
Sealing with Isehaya-Urushi (Sealing urushi)
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Dilute Isehaya with same amount or more of turpentine. Mix well.
 Brush Isehaya on Kintsugi metal softly.
 
Blot up Isehaya urushi with a tissue immediately after you brush it. Longer you keep Isehaya, sealing better, but get darker. Do not rub, just press tissue strongly on Kintsugi.
 
Leave the plate in a humid box for a couple of days.
Polishing silver and gold finish
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After repairing or sealing silver and gold finish, it’s good to polish the surface so it is shiny.
You can polish first and seal silver/gold.

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Polishing tools 

Top left  : tumbled agate
Bottom left : tumbled crystal
Middle : Japanese polishing tool, made from a bream tooth on a stick.
Right : Agate burnisher for gilding
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For sealing Urushi and Gold leaf powder set, Please refer page of  Plate and Tools for sale.
 
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