Kintsugi is the wonderful Japanese practice of taking a near worthless, broken object such as a ceramic pot, and repairing it with a precious or semi precious material, like gold, silver or platinum.
A few days ago I was turning a couple of oak burr pots, one for a commission and one for stock. The commission pot went to plan, but the pot for stock was another matter. it had a big dead knot in the base and, whilst I was shaping the outside of the pot, the knot split into three parts, one of which dissected the tenon that I'd just formed as a chucking point.
The solution came via ca glue to hold the pieces together, then a liberal amount of 2-part epoxy with copper powder. not wanting to fill just a few splits in the knot, I decided to fill all the open features in the grain.
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This made it into the shop yesterday morning and sold within 24 hours....I might just have a go at a few more!
C&C always welcome....les