technical type

Ji Mo followed Mo Bingzhong, watching him operate the whole process step by step, choosing the right oil, and controlling the soaking time and temperature. This aspect of temperature is really ignored by Ji Mo. In fact, there is a A little trick, the right oil temperature can allow time to blur the boundaries on the wood surface and accelerate the soaking effect.

If you want to understand it in a simple way, it is the principle of natural discoloration of food during frying. Of course, such a high temperature is not required here.

When it is taken out again, it needs to be scrubbed and dried in the shade, and then it is re-polished. The last step fits two-thirds of the previous one. Check whether there are too many gaps left, which need to be filled with wood powder. After filling, it can be polished again, so The repair is complete.

Ji Mo has not seen the finished product yet, and Ji Mo is already looking forward to it.

Mo Bingzhong put the one-third wooden comb in a corner of the studio to dry in the shade, and Ji Mo followed like a tail, and asked curiously, "If Dad came to repair it, would he do the same?"

"The latter methods are the same. In the front, I will make it simpler."

Next, Mo Bingzhong took out a small tool and showed how to punch holes in the waste wood. The whole process was actually simpler than Ji Mo thought. There was no need for any fitting mortise and tenon structure, as long as the two sections that needed to be connected were connected. Just punch holes, two holes on one side, a total of four, the thickness of a toothpick, and then take out two suitable wooden nails and insert them one by one, like a door bolt.When closed, the protruding wooden nail head can just be inserted into the small hole on the opposite side, and glue is used after such a simple splicing.

With the combined use of glue and wood powder, plus the addition of grinding and polishing, the final product can hardly be seen as being repaired. It is the same as the complex repair method Ji Mo thought of. All the interfaces are inside, and the outside I can't see it.

After listening to Mo Bingzhong's method and seeing the nifty little hole he punched, Ji Mo always felt that if there was a mocking one in the little hole looking at him, what does it mean to be clever but be misunderstood by cleverness? He slapped himself on the forehead with his backhand. He couldn't think of such a simple method. Can he demonstrate his skills by using mortise and tenon joints to complicate simple problems?

If it is not done well, according to Mo Bingzhong's restoration method, if the first level cannot be completed, you can continue to work on the second level, but it is just to plug the small hole with wood powder. Well, maybe it will be as famous as Jiao Wei.

And Ji Mo's method, if it can't be repaired like this, there is no need to think about the second and third levels in the follow-up, and there is almost no possibility of taking a step back. .

This kind of recklessness can be said to be confidence in his own skills, but in fact, he still has a bit of brilliance.

Ji Mo deeply reflected on himself. The deviation of his thinking here shows that his mentality is a bit drifting, because he has already mastered so many skills, and when he encounters this kind of comprehensive synthesis, he seems to be able to apply some of what he has learned before. When it comes to skills, it is inevitable to be self-confident, thinking that one's skills in a certain aspect are not weaker than others, and while showing off to one's heart's content, one forgets what is fundamental.

Seeing Ji Mo lowering his head and seeming very unhappy, Mo Bingzhong smiled: "You will know later, the repair needs to save labor and materials."

The profits of this industry, excluding those high profits that seem to be counterfeit, are not really worth earning.

The porcelain bowl was broken and I chose to restore it. It may be because it is a favorite thing and I can’t bear to see it broken. It may be because I have no money to buy a better one and have to continue to use it.

The former may charge a high price, the latter, most of the latter, if they can buy good new ones, who will use the repaired old ones?

The value in it is hard to earn.

If every repair is so meticulous, I am afraid that the final result is that the restorer will starve to death before spreading his reputation.

From this point of view, many restorers choose to engage in counterfeiting, and it cannot be said that there is no reason.

Ji Mo didn't know the deep meaning of Mo Bingzhong's words, but thought this "province" was thought-provoking!

As far as their family background is concerned, it is indeed necessary to save the various materials used for restoration. If it is always used for this type of restoration work, it will not be a serious waste if it is used for a long time, but if it is like Mo Bingzhong From time to time, repairing across categories will cost a lot. Some ingredients, such as oil soaked in wooden combs, are not cheap in themselves. After soaking, they are useless. Isn’t it a waste?

If you want to restore woodenware and use these oils, it may not be the case again. There is no fixed number. In this way, a large part of the restorer's cost estimate is also these things.

Then there are porcelain powder and wood powder. If you can grind it yourself, it will be cheaper if you spend some time. Price, two options, no matter how you can see where the advantage is.

It’s a waste to buy too much and not use it, and it’s painful to buy too little and pay a high price.This kind of problem related to money is enough trouble.

Poor families cannot train a restorer.

The resources spent on this learning path can directly make a poor family rich.

There is no need for a wealthy family to train a restorer.

They have good things that can be wasted, they don’t need to repair anything, just buy new ones if they are broken, and there is no need for their children to invest in this kind of industry that is strictly speaking at the beginning of the word “工”. .

Strangely, there are fewer and fewer restorers in later generations, and inheritance is not easy!

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On the day when the wooden comb was completed, the increase was a little gratifying. After all, Ji Mo did it by himself, and the subsequent coloring steps were completed by watching Mo Bingzhong, which was also learned.

Rubbing the wooden comb with no sign of splicing after it was finished, Ji Mo's sense of accomplishment came up, and he was eager to try the new task again, with the words "I still want to do it" written all over his face, which made Mo Bingzhong laugh , I can't hide my liking.

Mo Bingzhong also really gave him a few wooden repair jobs. Ji Mo took over and looked at them. They all focused on something. On the one hand, he took into account that he was still young and he was not sure about too many things. , The lack of strength, on the one hand, is a test that focuses on a certain aspect.

For example, the smoothing of the gaps involves the use of wood powder and glue, as well as the means of polishing, and the splicing of carvings, which is the technical requirement of carving, so that the broken flowers can be put together again and reproduced. That hollow pattern.There are also several practical coloring methods for Ji Mo’s reference. How to make the gloss like patina, besides oil immersion, there is also the method of waxing.

Compared with the value of oil, this wax is more expensive, which shows how much money is spent on the study of restorers.

Ji Mo knew that these resources were not easy to come by. Just seeing that they still live in no fixed place, three meals a day, two of which are porridge or vegetable soup, you can know how much money they have.

In order to minimize the loss of ingredients, every time Ji Mo does something, he will ponder over and over again in his head to make sure that the method is feasible, and only then will he carry out practical operations in reality. Occasionally there will be some mistakes, but they are all possible. The kind of rectification, one time is not good, next time you will be more diligent, and you can see the progress, which can be regarded as accumulating experience.

Ji Mo started repairing woodware, and Mo Bingzhong didn't let him touch porcelain until two years later, when he knew how to deal with all kinds of woodware and could easily repair any dry, cracked and crispy skin.Compared with porcelain, woodware is much softer. From soft to hard, the handle needs to be adapted first.In addition, porcelain is fragile, which is different from the toughness of wood, and the tools required are also harder. There are also various methods such as water grinding.

Porcelain is more fragile than woodware, and you have to be more careful when repairing. The old gaps are hard to be destroyed by tools, and the porcelain powder will fall if you touch it slightly. The pure internal porcelain powder is nothing. The key is Externally, most of the porcelain has patterned glaze color. When the porcelain powder peels off, it is easy to damage the patterned glaze color on the surface. The pattern can be painted and repainted. If the difference is almost the same, the glaze color is difficult to completely imitate.

Especially ancient porcelain, which has been aged for a long time, will be easily damaged, and its wall is extremely thin, and there is no possibility of nailing, so glue can only be used to make up.

Shellac, gum and isinglass are the three most commonly used glues. Occasionally, two or three are mixed together, and they are blended in a certain proportion before use.

In general, it is still the same steps, cleaning, filling, sanding, priming, coloring, glazing, and aging.Among them, the glazing step needs to use a kind of blending glue, which reacts after mixing several materials, and then uses them.

Ji Mo felt that what happened was a chemical reaction, that is to say, this kind of glue is no longer a natural material, just like paint, which is coated with a layer on the surface of porcelain, with its own soft light.

"When restoring porcelain, it is necessary to divide the colors into five colors." The color is too deep and light, and cannot be tiled. It must have a sense of hierarchy. Whether the restoration is good or bad, sometimes it is a journey of questioning for the restorer.

Many outsiders can't see the technical skills reflected under the glamorous surface, one step more and one step less, thinner and thicker, they can't see it, only the restorer himself knows.

There are many ways to save labor and materials for a restorer. If the price is low, the blue and white flowers are gaudy and can still be used in porcelain restoration, but they lack some artistic beauty. On the Wanzhang Cliff, it's rare to be obscene.

The difference here is the "color". If one stroke is missing, one level will be missing, and a certain three-dimensional effect will be lost, which will make the whole lose color, and it cannot be said that it has not been repaired. One thing is missing.

That is, the buyer has no good reason to find fault, because the repair is not as good as the original, so they don't buy it?Joke, if the repaired one is better than the new one, why are so many people buying new ones?

Restoration is originally a means of remedy, but whether it can be saved or not depends on how much the restorer is willing to save.This has become a conscience business, and most people have no conscience.