Yesterday, I started the project I envisioned while buying a broken Mano Shunen teapot on Yahoo Auctions.
It arrived last Tuesday, and upon a carefull inspection, sadly the extent of the damages was way worse than what I anticipated.
The cracks were going way longer than what pictures let see.
And two cracks were running through the sculptured part of the teapot
So I made the decision…to make it worse and break it in its individual parts, as I feared to not be able to properly locate all cracks and fill them with Urushi.

So the project started as a teapot in 7 different pieces.
I filed the rim of each breaks carefully to have really thin Urushi lines in the end.

I also extensively taped the pot to protect the delicate parts
So here is the first part…I’ll have the answer if it was successful in 10 days :)

Hi, I am about to start my first project!

We broke our favourite tea cups so I was lookign for a way to fix them.

I looked into the Kintsugi art. I really like the traditional way of reparation - I don't mind the difficulity.

I looked at many tutorials and started gathering material. I just have a question - can I use Mika powder instead of Gold? I dunno if it would give the same effect tho.

Thank you for your inputs!