Porcelain Patch in Dallas, reviews by real people. Yelp is a fun and easy way to find, recommend and talk about what’s great and not so great in Dallas and beyond. Many times a porcelain sink will become chipped making you wonder if it is possible to repair yourself. The answer is YES. Your sink can easily be repaired with the right porcelain fix it kit and by repairing it using the best method possible. Choosing the best repair kit can make a huge difference.
We have generated a few lessons covering several aspects of repairing and restoring ceramic, china, porcelain, pottery, stone sculpture and statue . Note that we could not have possibly cover all the required steps, thus some practice is required to increase your success. See lessons index and links below.
IMPORTANT: Ceramic restoration materials are not food safe, liquid or heat proof (over 190 degree F) and repaired items should not be used on cooking or food serving-ware more...
Video: Ceramic Repair Process, How To, Materials Used and Studio Tour | ||
Video: Kintsugi, How it Done and Materials Used. Real Gold and Gold Effect Methods | ||
How to repair and restor broken pottery, ceramic, china, sculpture, figurines and porcelain? Repairing cracks, chips and objects with missing piece? | ||
Questions and Answers This page lists some of the most common ceramic repair and restoration questions we receive regularly (e.g., what glue to use, what repair options are available, can the repair be invisible, etc.) | ||
1) Basic Ceramic Bowl Repair This tutorial may assist you in mending and cementing your broken ceramic or pottery using easily available tools and materials saving you the cost of professional repair. Click picture for lesson details | ||
2) More Complex Plate Repair Lesson How to: Cementing, filling, painting and 'cold glazing' broken porcelain / china with missing pieces. This page include a detailed video. Click picture for lesson details | ||
3) Chipped Pottery Repair Lesson How to: Cementing, filling and preparing surface for painting, painting and glazing chipped pottery, ceramic or china vessels. Click picture for lesson details | ||
4) How to Replace Stoneware Crock's Rim Seamlesly How to: Replace rare crock's broken rim using the pottery wheel and cold materials (paint and glaze). Click picture for lesson details | ||
5) Filling a Large Gap Pottery Repair Lesson How to: Filling a large gap, hole or missing piece repairing pottery, sculpture or ceramic. Click picture for lesson details | ||
6) Earthenware Vase Repair Lesson How to: Cementing and filling broken pottery with missing pieces using fiberglass resin, filler, painting and antiquing. Click picture for lesson details | ||
7) Bowl Repair Lesson With Missing Pieces How to: Filling in missing pieces with fired ceramic impression. Click picture for lesson details | ||
8) Figurine Repair Lesson with Missing Finger How to: Adding missing miniature part (e.g., missing finger) using pins for strength. Click picture for lesson details | ||
9) Ceramic Sculpture Repair Lesson How to: Repairing and restoring sculpture with missing parts. Click picture for lesson details | ||
10) Broken Plaster Sculpture Repair How to: Repairing and restoring large scale lamp. Click picture for lesson details | ||
11) Bronze Sculpture / Bust Repair Lesson Antique Napoleon Bronze statue made with 'Lost Wax' with the original plaster mold remaining in the statue contributing to present of moisture. The present of moisture oxidized to bronze and eroded to plaster structure. Click picture for lesson details | ||
12) Broken Sculpture Figure Repair Lesson How to: Restoring broken sculpture (woman's bust) with missing pieces. Click picture for lesson details | ||
13) Removing Old Adhesive Lesson How to: Separating cemented repaired ceramic and removing old adhesive from ceramic or pottery. Click picture for lesson details | ||
14) Broken Stone Sculpture Repair Lesson How to: Repairing and restoring broken stone sculpture. Click picture for lesson details | ||
15)Removing Scratches from Soft Shona Stone Sculpture How to: Repair scratched sof stone (e.g., Shona, Spring) sculpture. Click picture for lesson details | ||
16) Replacing Missing Hand in a Figurine How to: Restoring a Royal Doulton Figurine with a missing limb (hand). Click picture for lesson details | ||
17) Repairing Crack in Pottery Lesson How to: Repairing a cracked ceramic or pottery object with an hairline crack using the 'pegging' technique. Click picture for lesson details | ||
18) Selecting The Right Glue Epoxy Vs. Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue, Crazy Glue) for Ceramic / China Repair. Click picture for lesson details | ||
19) Painting Lesson For Repaired Pottery or Ceramic Objects Painting & Glazing Repaired Ceramic or Sculpture. How to Mix Color: Basic Theory Air Brush or brushes? Click picture for lesson details | ||
20) Repairing Metal Sculpture Should I repair my metal or bronze sculpture? Is it real bronze, resin or Spelter and how I can I find out? Click picture for lesson details | ||
21) Removing Stain from Pottery, China or Ceramic How to remove and clean stains and crazing marks from old or antique pottery, ceramic and porcelain safely? Click picture for lesson details | ||
22) Illustrations of repairing small figurine Restoring a small porcelain figurine that was broken to many parts and had several missing pieces. Click picture for lesson details | ||
23) Illustrations of Repairing Ancient Pottery Restoring an ancient roman vessel that was broken to many pieces and some missing pieces. The challenge was restoring it's 'antique' look and putting so many pieces together. Click picture for lesson details | ||
24) Illustrations of Repairing Large Shona Stone Sculpture Restoring a large Shona stone sculpture broken to many pieces and some parts crashed to dust. Because it is a very soft stone, the challenge here was to restore it and maintain it's structural integrity. The other challenge was treat the added missing pieces with the same color and luster as 'waxed stone' look Click picture for lesson details | ||
25) Illustrations of Repairing Imari Platter Restoring a large high-end antique plate broken to many pieces is a challenge. In this slides how, we illustrate how to handle multiple broken pieces, removal of old repairs, making missing pieces out of fired clay and a lot of missing painting and aged gold details. This plate is a few hundred years old made by Imari, Japan. Click picture for lesson details | ||
26) Illustrations of Repairing Plaster Bust Restoring a plaster bust. This project is the personal plaster bust of David Deacon Jones awarded to him from the NFL PRO Football Hall of Fame. It arrived to Lakeside Pottery Restoration studio broken, cracked, with missing pieces and several layers of previous repair and painting attempts. The photos below show some of the restoration process steps.Click picture for lesson details | ||
27) Illustrations of Hopi Indian Pottery repair This Indian Hopi pottery vase made by Stetson Setalla, came to us very broken with missing pieces and several hairline cracks. Restored inside as outside. Click picture for lesson details | ||
28) Illustrations of Ancient Method of Repairing Pottery with Staples Ancient method of repairing pottery and ceramic vessels with metal staples or rivets before the availability of adhesives. More about modern use of pins and pegs.Click picture for lesson details | ||
29) Kintsugi / Kintsukuroi Pottery Repair Tutorial This lesson will walk you through some of the highlights of both processes, traditional Kintsugi and the Kintsugi effect repair using our proprietary metal alloy and epoxies. Click picture for lesson details | ||
30) Kintsugi Custom Made Heart Vase Video Video of custom made stoneware heart shape vase with Kintsugi art implemented using Opal gemstones and agate. Click picture for lesson details | ||
31) Antique Figurine Repair Process Over 100 years old badly damaged figurine. It broke to many pieces with some segments missing that required sculpting. Below are some of the steps taken. Click picture for lesson details | ||
Porcelain and China marking and Symbols Porcelain marks are the fingerprints of antique china. Serving as both evidence of its origin, age, and often times, quality, the makers mark on a porcelain item is the first place many collectors look before making a purchase. Click picture for lesson details | ||
Pottery and Metal Repair Restoring multimedia pottery / silver (Tagine) with missing pieces and multi breaks. Click picture for lesson details - short video |