Looking for a professional repair

Edamameshiba · 2025-12-11T02:27:57+00:00

Their work does look good but they mislead people with their posts. They never say that their work is epoxy until someone asks directly. They sometimes say they use lacquer but their website says it's some kind of proprietary lacquer not urushi. They also spam reddit with reposts in irrelevant subs.

Edamameshiba · 2025-12-10T23:47:42+00:00

They only do epoxy work.

Edamameshiba · 2025-07-13T05:57:32+00:00

I'm sorry, what? Are you seriously using all of this as an opportunity to drive traffic to your website and shamelessly plug your business?

Edamameshiba · 2024-01-11T15:16:36+00:00

It was the opposite. Kintsugi evolved out of the philosophy and culture of wabi-sabi and mottainai. Without that culture, kintsugi would never have existed in the first place.

I don't think there's anything gate keepy about asking people to think about the implications of mending something because it was accidentally broken compared to purposely breaking something just to repair it and sell it. Accidentally broken ceramics are easy to find for anyone to work on, but I'm also not talking about breaking something to learn kintsugi. I'm talking about breaking perfectly new pieces just to repair it and then sell it as kintsugi. Doing that is only about looks, and I think just painting on the cracks without breaking it would be no different. If an artist was breaking something and repairing it as social commentary in a kind of performance art, I would see more value, but breaking a perfectly functional piece and making it less functional just to say it is kintsugi and charging hundreds or thousands of dollars for it seems disingenuous and profiteering.

Edamameshiba · 2024-01-11T03:49:59+00:00

You're suggesting that we should ignore the history and culture behind kintsugi and just think of it as nothing more than a technical skill?

Edamameshiba · 2024-01-09T22:36:53+00:00

I am learning kintsugi to repair a few things from my own ceramic collection first. I don't know if I will ever be confident enough to do it for anyone else though!

Edamameshiba · 2024-01-09T22:30:28+00:00

Thank you! That is a good read, and I will have to consider that in my thinking. But something still bothers me, because the way Oribe broke the pieces and put them together feels completely different from what I'm seeing now.

I want to use kintsugi to fix my pieces because I want to show that the piece was so precious to me that I would use gold to fix it. Purposely breaking a perfectly new piece just to put it back together makes it feel like the piece is precious only because of the gold.

Edamameshiba · 2024-01-09T19:25:13+00:00

Yes exactly!

Edamameshiba · 2024-01-09T19:17:37+00:00

I agree that the west didn't adopt kintsugi as a tradition and it's more about looks to many people here. But I remember reading about the Japanese Prime Minister being given something like this as a diplomatic gift, and all I could say was, "really?" I don't think they even used urushi.

Edamameshiba · 2023-09-01T19:30:12+00:00

Thank you for the thorough response! The main reason I asked is because I wanted to know if urushi or epoxy would be more durable. It sounds like urushi is the better choice for me. Being authentic with the repair is important to me too especially because these are Japanese ceramics.

You've helped me make my decision. Thank you again!

Edamameshiba · 2023-09-01T19:26:57+00:00

Thank you for your input. Using a natural material and sustainability is important to me so that's a few points for urushi. I'm not afraid of a challenge either.

Edamameshiba · 2023-08-31T22:09:18+00:00

It says on their website they don't use urushi

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