How To Repair Broken Animal Figurines

How to Repair Broken Stone Sculpture or Statue

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Ceramic & Sculpture Repair Lessons
(click pictures)

Cementing only lesson

Chipped pottery repair lesson

Complete ceramic repair lesson

Restore vase lesson

How to supercede Stoneware crock'south rim

Kintsugi - mending with gold

How to set ceramic crack

Restore basin lesson westward/ missing pieces

Restoring ancient pottery steps

Sculpting missing pieces - Lladro

Painting pottery after repair

Miniature repair westward/ missing finger

Making missing part w/ fired clay

Repairing broken rock sculpture

Bronze sculpture repair

Restoring stone sculpture / statue

Plaster effigy / statue reapir

Plaster lamp repair w/ missing parts

Heavily damaged ceramic figurine repair

Miniature Porcelain

Removing stains

Removing old glue

More Lessons

Repairing a Stone Sculpture | Detached Head and Missing Fragments

This tutorial / illustration was put together equally an case showing how Lakeside Pottery generally repairs and restores stone sculptures. The key elements are: Choosing the right pins for strength, drilling accurately on both sides of the intermission lines, using the right bonding adhesive, using the right filler adhesives, hiding the repair lines and preserving the repair areas. In this instance, the sculpture head broke off and was glued back on with the wrong agglutinative. The one-time adhesive was hard to remove and increased the repair cost. The main issue with this repair was the break line was not clean and many fragments were missing . So even if it was aligned perfectly, the interruption line would exist very visible and therefore had to be filled. Once filled, the complex sculpture surface texture was required to exist duplicated to hide the filler.

Tools used: Drill, carbide tipped drill bit, pencil, brush, paper, scissors, vice, hacksaw with metal cutting blade, putty knife, metal brush, air compressor, torch, Dremel, diamond bits, airbrush, brushes, pivot tool.

Materials used: Rock dust (drilled from sculpture), Elmers mucilage, stainless steel threaded rod, high strength ii-part bonding epoxy, 2-part filler white epoxy mixed with stone grit, acrylic paints, matt protective clear coating.

Stride-by-Step Illustrations:

The option of drilling location needs to be in the center of stone mass on both parts, the head and the body. The drilled rock dust is saved for later to be used to make full in the large gaps betwixt the two parts one time cemented.
Broken stone sculpture - about lxx lbs	Drill holes using carbide tipped chip
Collect the drilled dust for subsequently use	Mark outline of suspension area
Mark the pigsty location on paper	Cutting newspaper
In one case you have drilled the holes on one side of the work, how exercise you match the holes in the other side? Identify a paper over the drilled surface, mucilage it down with water soluble gum (tape did non work in this example - it did non adhere to the soft rock surfaces) and outline the hole and the edges of the stone. Then, poke holes through the paper marking drilled holes. Follow the steps below and mark the exact hole location on the other portion of the sculpture (head) for authentic alignment location transfer.
Place Elmers mucilage on the head side	Identify head on newspaper
Make sure newspaper does not movement	Align perfectly
Paper glued to the un-drilled part	Mark location for the holes
Note that the epoxy, once cured, is much harder than the rock in this example and therefore drilling the holes wider will not be a problem and will ease the fit requiring less accurate holes alignment. Remove grit from holes, remove former cement and clean surfaces well.
Verify mark and drill the holes	Make clean dust with air pressure
Clear quondam adhesive (in this instance torch)	Scrape
Brush	Cutting metallic threaded pins to size
Cut rod to size (in this instance almost 4-1/2"). Place in holes and verify alignment
Place pins and verify fit	Mix Clear epoxy
ii-parts epoxy in holes and surface
Mix enough epoxy to make full holes in bottom and top and cover the surface. If using 5-minutes epoxy, brand sure you are all prepared and peradventure have an assistant. The 5-minutes epoxy starts to set after ii-3 minutes. Once clear epoxy is cured, mix the filler epoxy with the stone dust you lot have saved (about 30% grit and seventy% epoxy) and make full all the gaps. In this case, nosotros used the PC-11 slow cure filler epoxy. Wait 24 hours before handling.
West ait 8 hrs or more for epoxy to cure	Mix the drilled dust with white epoxy
Grind, drill, poke, and scratch surface to duplicate the rest of the sculpture surface texture
Using Dremel diamond bit for texture	Texture phase 1
Texture accomplished - close upwardly	Match color and mix with sands More than about painting repair lines
Pictured below are before and later on results of a similar process.
Broken Shona lather rock sculpture	Zimbabwe sculpture repaired
Verdite stone elephant cleaved	Verdite rock sculpture restored
Cleaved Chinese horse sculpture	Chinese horse sculpture repaired
Large stone sculpture before repair	Large rock sculpture repaired

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