Yixing repair - "Tinkers"

[drinking_teas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTt4rQ2Z9wU

thought this was an interesting video, love the aesthetic that those clamps/staples create.

[Tead Off]

Thanks for this video. The guy is terrific. Good to see. Maybe Tingjunkie will have a new career path.

[Poseidon]

Great post DT. Truely an art.

[tingjunkie]

Amazing craftsmanship and awesome video. Thanks for posting.

If my math is correct, the video says he makes less than $10 per repaired teapot??? That can't be right.

[Tead Off]

Amazing craftsmanship and awesome video. Thanks for posting.

If my math is correct, the video says he makes less than $10 per repaired teapot??? That can't be right.

I think 5000 Yuan was the figure, =$805. You can make a lot more than that in NY!

[drinking_teas]

dooooo iiiiiiiiit tingjunkie, i'll be there for your grand opening

[tingjunkie]

I think 5000 Yuan was the figure, =$805. You can make a lot more than that in NY!

Yeah, that's $800 for repairing 100 pots per month. I sure hope that's not right. I know money goes a bit further in China, but come on.

I actually have a beautiful pot with a barely visible hairline crack that has never cracked open (and may never open either), and I've contemplated the staple method for a preemptive repair. I think it looks awesome, and would take away the 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' feeling when I use it.

[Tead Off]

I think 5000 Yuan was the figure, =$805. You can make a lot more than that in NY!

Yeah, that's $800 for repairing 100 pots per month. I sure hope that's not right. I know money goes a bit further in China, but come on.

I actually have a beautiful pot with a barely visible hairline crack that has never cracked open (and may never open either), and I've contemplated the staple method for a preemptive repair. I think it looks awesome, and would take away the 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' feeling when I use it.

If he were in Shanghai he'd probably make $8000 per month! labor is cheap in small town and rural China. You can become 'the' master Yixing repair guy in America. Sky's the limit. The Japanese charge a lot for kintsugi.

[tingjunkie]

At these prices, I'd just outsource and mark-up.

[Jaymo]

Around 2:07 the narrator says, about the clamps, "They're usually made out of bronze, lead, or sometimes even silver or gold."

I don't know how I feel about lead clamps in an Yixing!

[Tead Off]

Isn't this a TCM sanctioned metal?

[chrl42]

Amazing craftsmanship and awesome video. Thanks for posting.

If my math is correct, the video says he makes less than $10 per repaired teapot??? That can't be right.

I heard the staple is like $10 a piece

[tingjunkie]

I heard the staple is like $10 a piece

If made out of 14K gold perhaps...

[Tead Off]

I heard the staple is like $10 a piece

If made out of 14K gold perhaps...

In Asia, the chances are they use 22k gold. I wonder if there is any adhesive involved along with the stapling. And, I wonder if the staples go through the pot to the other side or just into the body?

[tingjunkie]

My guesses would be no, and no. But just guesses.