So,i been looking in Amazon a lot of urushi items,some expensive,some not,i was wondering what is the best for beginners and,ehat materials or things i should be aware or need to buy?
[If you are asking,im trying to make a snuff box a-like,black outside and red inside if you are asking]
Main challenges here were to drive my brush, charcoal and stone around rings as well as to make custom raised urushi ring on the body. I used kijiro for the ring with finest raden dust. That dust part isnt as easy as I thought. Had to lay it down in many thin layers to preserve transparency. Well, I hope as kijiro ages the floating raden dust will sparkle more and more!
My first range of home-made Urushi & Urushi/ Raden Fountain Pens are finished and ready to write!
They’re definitely a long way from perfect, but we’re really fun to make and have definitely taught me a lot for my next set!
I've been working with urushi for over a year now with kintsugi, and my last trip to Japan I took a class on maki-e, and I was thinking of trying to make some basic lacquerware myself. Anyone do this?
I have some wood pieces to practice with and have tried to watch some videos on how it is done and it seems like it is:
*A later of slightly thinned urushi
*Layer of washi paper with nori urushi on top
*Layer of urushi
*Layer of clay ? + urushi Some things make it look like it's *maybe tonoko powder in that layer
*More urushi
*More urushi
*More urushi
If I wanted to put in a maki-e design, it would be in between the last few urushi layers, another layer of clay urushi maybe? More layers and of course, all the sanding in the world lol
Anyone have any good websites for the steps? Or the type of washi used? Nori urushi is with rice flour instead of wheat, correct?
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.