Kintsugi on a Harry Potter Gryffindor Goblet
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2021
- I've wanted to try the art of kintsugi for a long time. So when I broke my wife's favourite glass I saw the opportunity I needed.
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Vallejo Glorious Gold
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Superglue Accelerator
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If you've never heard of kintsugi before it's made up of the two words for Golden and Joinery in Japanese. The idea being not to discard a broken object, but carry on and let it bear the scars that show a story.
And here is the glass itself. It's the house glass of Gryffindor (I think, oh God I hope I didn't get that wrong!). I seem to remember it being a lot more broken than this so this is going to be a quicker project than I imagined. Examining things more closely it seems to be a very clean break. I had first considered using araldite for this, it's definitely strong and comes with a 90 minute working time.
I also looked at using some 5 minute epoxy, but this is probably overkill here too. In the end I settled on some superglue and some activator so I don't have to stand there like a lemon waiting for it to dry.
For the gold aspect, I had looked at getting gold powder or gold leaf for this. But seeing as it's a small job I decided to raid the model painting box for some Vallejo Game Colour in Glorious Gold.
And this is my first time using an actual camera, I'll learn how to focus it, I'm sure. :)
Putting some vinyl gloves on so I didn't end up gluing myself to the glass, or the table, or even the glue pot (don't ask). I ran a line of glue along the broken piece and slotted it nicely into place.
Then sprayed some activator to keep it there. I'm glad I didn't have to use some tape to keep it in place because the glue left a pleasing raised line on which to paint later.
A blob of paint in a palette, some practise swipes at the glass and it was done. This is going all rather quickly isn't it?
For the clean up I have this convenient wooden scraper with a wedge at one end and a pointy bit the other.
But you could use a toothpick/cocktail stick.
Or hack a point onto the end of a lolly pop stick!
Then we set about the task of tidying up the edges where my ability to paint in the lines is beaten by the average 4 year old.
And here we have the finished piece, all scared and covered in gold. I think I'd use this very same method again in a fix.
I hope this video was in any way of interest to you and I plan to make more general making and crafting videos on this channel.
If you're interested in seeing me trying to make guitars, I have another channel for that. There will be links on screen and in the description for that.
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Interesting repair, haven't heard of this technique before
I think there's a lot of potential for rescuing broken things :)
Kintsugi is great for hiding crimes! 😁 Clever trick to paint on the gold after the glue up, instead of mixing the gold in the glue!
Thanks, it's not very robust with the acrylic paint, someone could pull it off. But it's fine for decoration. :)
@@chrisfranklynmakes True. But considering kintsugi typically isn't used on everyday use objects, so as long as you are careful it's probably fine. As long as you don't consume paint flakes... 😬
plot twist - you broke your wife's glass on purpose, so you can get the video going.
what camera did you get?
plot twist - it's my wife's camera and we've had it all along! It's a Nikon Coolpix B700 and it seems to be a lot better than my phone camera :) SO many options, I've got to learn what they all do. But I don't necessarily want to have it in the garage when I'm making sawdust or painting, so we'll see... Thanks for being on my much ignored second channel with a yearly upload schedule :) (I've picked up many guitar specific subs over there now, so I think I'll do random things here)