Manupropria
October 7th, 2014, 08:23 AM
I allow myself to show you an ebonite fountain pen I have finished today.
Raden (abalone) particles are sprinkled into wet Roiro (black) urushi lacquer.
After hardening a thick coat of Roiro-urushi is applied and dried over a period of several days.
Then the surface is ground and polished.
Normally for raden-nashiji the pre-polished surface is impregnated/saturated with Kijiomi-urushi several times and then finally polished. This prcess is called "uwazuri"or "roiro shiage" On this pen I have applied a solid final layer of highly transparen so called "skari-urushi" that was again treated "uwazuri". The advantage is, that the surface is completely smooth and the raden particles are not laying on the surface.
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Raden (abalone) particles are sprinkled into wet Roiro (black) urushi lacquer.
After hardening a thick coat of Roiro-urushi is applied and dried over a period of several days.
Then the surface is ground and polished.
Normally for raden-nashiji the pre-polished surface is impregnated/saturated with Kijiomi-urushi several times and then finally polished. This prcess is called "uwazuri"or "roiro shiage" On this pen I have applied a solid final layer of highly transparen so called "skari-urushi" that was again treated "uwazuri". The advantage is, that the surface is completely smooth and the raden particles are not laying on the surface.
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