u/banditkeith

▲ 22 r/urushi

Cup: 3d printed core, hand placed raden chips all around the base, blue exterior fading to black base and black interior, nearly finished

Key caps: three mechanical keyboard caps, two commercial abs and the round typewriter style cap is printed

Cat: a 3d printed pen rest done following master flower the cats tutorial from YouTube

Pen: a jinhao fountain pen in green urushi which will be finished tamenuri style

Chopsticks: pre made chopsticks from my lacquer supplier, also green, "nearly done" which my wife has learned can mean days to weeks away from completion

Chopstick rest: 3d printed, I needed a chopstick rest and wasn't in a hurry

Pendant: an art Deco style 3d printed pendant being done alongside the cat with the same technique

Red box: cheap wooden box from AliExpress, done in red with sprinkled raden chips and butterflies on top and black interior

Gourd: my most ridiculous project, a full sized bottle gourd I hollowed out and cleaned, it'll be finished in shiny black with some sort of design on the lower portion. the mouth of the bottle is handmade from maple and fitted in place with mugi urushi. The interior will be coated with beeswax and pine resin mix for sealing and a simple tapered stopper will be made as a closure and also lacquered. This will, in fact, be a water bottle I will take with me in public, like a crazy person.

Ask anything you want about the pieces, the techniques and materials I've used, my next steps, what's fundamentally wrong with me as a person, where I get my supplies and ideas, how itchy I am and how strongly I suspect it's lacquer related, etc.

u/banditkeith — 12 days ago
▲ 32 r/urushi

The saucer is zelkova wood, bought as a blank project piece from my usual urushi supplier. Just layers of red, wet sanded and then buffed with dilute aka-roiro for gloss and polished with roiromigakiko powder in oil.

My cats toy banana for scale

u/banditkeith — 26 days ago