An Unusual Crack

[Sigmund]

I think Speakeasy has it right. Its end grain so you have limited glue strength. Looks like a good project for your metal work.

 

[Searock Fan]

Super glue. Make it the thin kind so it will penetrate.

 

[Hillcrest]

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Is that how the Falcon got invented ???

 

[LotusEater]

For a quick fix you could rig up one of these to keep the two halves connected

 

[didimauw]

I'm starting to think the gold dust idea might be the way to go!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I was thinking about just leaving two 5” C clamps on it, but I’ll have to weigh it to make sure I can still clench it.

 

[MisterBadger]

Is it called Wabi Sabi? Maybe I could fill the crack with gold. Ha ha

Or is that the green stuff that burns your tongue like hydrochloric acid?

Mending cracked porcelain with gold is Kintsuge. Wabi-Sabi is about the perceived beauty of ugliness, as with some of those avant-garde Danish pipes one sees that fetch amazingly silly prices. I think a gold or silver bonding would look really cool, and the bowl temperature wouldn't come near the melting point of either. Or the temperature of Wasabi, the notorious Japanese horseradish.

 

[xrundog]

Will any metal be in your grip zone? I was enamored of silver inlaid pipes for a short time. That metal got hot! I would vow not to grab the pipe. But I would eventually forget.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Will any metal be in your grip zone? I was enamored of silver inlaid pipes for a short time. That metal got hot! I would vow not to grab the pipe. But I would eventually forget.

The C-clamps would serve as a heat sink.