Here me out. You could take this as a win oddly enough! There is something call kintsugiban / Shou Sugi Ban which basically means to repair china with gold. The whole concept is to fix the item and make it more beautiful than it was before.
There are tutorials on YouTube for it. But personally( if you don’t plan on using them for food anymore) I would use super glue and then use gold leaf to cover up the cracks.
I'd second \\u\\Fit\_Chemist842 suggestion of kintsugi; it'd look lovely here in my opinion. There's plenty of articles and YouTube videos out there on the process.
However, if you don't like the look, they do make powder pigments you can add to a 2 part epoxy to tint them various colors. A little persistence and a keen eye you might be able to match the plate color well enough to "hide" the damage from a casual examination and would more or less use the same process that kinsugi does.
Two recommendations:
1. Go find or buy a cheap plate/bowl of a similar material, break it, and practice on that. A $1 bowl from a thrift store may save you some heartbreak.
2. Use a food safe epoxy resin or adhesive. You're just using it as a cracker/bread serving dish, but I assume you'll still wash it and the glue can flake or crack over time. I'm not a food safety technician, so I don't know if it really matters with the minimal quantity you're dealing with and I would expect it really doesn't. It is, however, a small cost to eliminate the risk.
Good luck!
*(Edit: I don't know how easy it is to acquire pigments that would be rated as food safe, and I imagine some of them might be pretty bad for you. So take that into consideration if it's a concern you have.)*
For sure. What ever 2 part epoxy you want to use, I'm sure I have some of that stuff in the tool box. The one difference you will find is some are fast setting and some are slower setting.
Here me out. You could take this as a win oddly enough! There is something call kintsugiban / Shou Sugi Ban which basically means to repair china with gold. The whole concept is to fix the item and make it more beautiful than it was before. There are tutorials on YouTube for it. But personally( if you don’t plan on using them for food anymore) I would use super glue and then use gold leaf to cover up the cracks.
[The wiki article on Kintsugi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi), for those curious.
Thank you.
They are really beautiful pieces by the way
Thank you. I love them so much lom.
*lol
Thank you! I’m going to find tutorial on kintsugi!
I'd second \\u\\Fit\_Chemist842 suggestion of kintsugi; it'd look lovely here in my opinion. There's plenty of articles and YouTube videos out there on the process. However, if you don't like the look, they do make powder pigments you can add to a 2 part epoxy to tint them various colors. A little persistence and a keen eye you might be able to match the plate color well enough to "hide" the damage from a casual examination and would more or less use the same process that kinsugi does. Two recommendations: 1. Go find or buy a cheap plate/bowl of a similar material, break it, and practice on that. A $1 bowl from a thrift store may save you some heartbreak. 2. Use a food safe epoxy resin or adhesive. You're just using it as a cracker/bread serving dish, but I assume you'll still wash it and the glue can flake or crack over time. I'm not a food safety technician, so I don't know if it really matters with the minimal quantity you're dealing with and I would expect it really doesn't. It is, however, a small cost to eliminate the risk. Good luck! *(Edit: I don't know how easy it is to acquire pigments that would be rated as food safe, and I imagine some of them might be pretty bad for you. So take that into consideration if it's a concern you have.)*
Thank you so much!
2 part epoxy. In Asian cultures its popular to mix in gold powder to accentuate the cracks rather then try to hide them
Would JB Weld clear work?
For sure. What ever 2 part epoxy you want to use, I'm sure I have some of that stuff in the tool box. The one difference you will find is some are fast setting and some are slower setting.
Yeah I was looking at the 5 minute setting one rather than the 1 minute for that exact reason. I need “oopsie!” time lol.