Ceramic and Pottery Restoration Levels:

1) Best Level Budget: This option provides you with a complete restoration process for ceramic, china, pottery and porcelain items. It includes removing old glues (if any), preparing surfaces for cementing, mending broken pieces using clear two part heavy duty epoxy with 3,700 PSI tensile / shear strengths. This restoration level also includes filling in gaps, chips or missing pieces. Larger missing pieces will be made out of clay and fired in our kiln. Repaired surfaces will be sanded, polished and primed. This process includes testing and verifying surfaces with UV and Black Light for perfect smoothness. The last step is matching shades and colors, glazing to the right reflection level (e.g., matt or glossy) with a clear epoxy coating providing very hard finish similar to fired ceramic. This level of restoration is not "Liquid Resist". See before and after repair pictures

2) Mid Level Budget (save about 20 - 25% of Best Level cost): This option is similar to the above with the exception of surface smoothness and color matching. Choose this option if having a perfect surface area and / or precise color or glaze matching are not that important to you or it might not make a major difference visually if compared to Best Level option above (decided case by case). At this repair level one might see the repair lines under certain angles or light conditions. This repair level is it is not "Liquid Resist".

3) Lower Level Budget (save about 40-50% of Best Level cost): This option includes removing old glues (if any), preparing surfaces for cementing, mending broken pieces using two part heavy duty clear epoxy with 3,700 PSI tensile / shear strengths. This restoration level also includes filling in gaps, chips or missing pieces. Larger missing pieces will be recreated with fillers (not fired clay). Sanding, polishing and priming repaired surface areas to a reasonable level smoothness (not perfect). Mechanically, the restored vessel or sculpture will be exactly like the original form but without color matching around the repaired areas and white hair-lines will show (see picture on right as an example). This selection can be restored to the Best Level at any future time. At this stage it is "Liquid Resist" but not food safe. Note that this level repair might not prevent from yellowing if exposed to UV light (e.g., day light, florescent light).

Cementing and filling in

4) Lowest Level Budget - Cementing Only (save about 60-70% of Best Level cost): If you wish to just get your broken china or ceramic item back in one piece and perhaps decide to proceed with a full restoration later, we can remove old cement (if any), prepare for mending, and glue all pieces back together. The cemented object will represent it's original shape and be protected from further degradation but not from yellowing if exposed to UV light (e.g., day light, florescent light). Missing pieces or shards will not be filled in. At this stage it is "Liquid Resist" but not food safe.