How to gild the Buddha statue?

There are many ways of gilding, gilding and tracing the Buddha statue. Gilding is more suitable for large clay Buddha statues. In order to set off the golden color, it is necessary to paint the clay statue of Buddha with a yellow background, and then paint the surface with tung oil (now it is also varnished). After drying a little, you can paste the gold foil. Drying temperature is very important and should be moderate. It's too dry for the gold foil to stick, and too sticky for the gold foil to stick. So this is a work done by experience. After the gold foil is gently attached to the surface of the Buddha statue, it is compacted bit by bit with a brush, so that the gold foil is completely attached to the tung oil that has not been completely dried. When the surface of the Buddha statue is completely attached, it is basically completed.

Gold plating method of Buddha statue

Traditional bronzing technology

The traditional bronzing process has different bronzing effect on handicrafts, mainly because the glue used to treat the primer is different.

Now commonly used glues mainly include hydrosol and toothpaste glue. Hydrosol is easy to prepare and operate, but the gold pasting effect is generally not as good as that of toothpaste glue. The use of toothpaste glue solvent is to paste gold directly on the surface of gold-plated objects without protective paint, which truly reflects the primary color of gold. The disadvantage is that the gold foil on the surface can be scraped off with a little force and will not collide. In the previous process, the surface of gold foil was protected by varnish, but it could not reflect the primary color of gold.

High strength bronzing technology

High-strength bronzing technology is to coat high-strength protective paint on the surface of gold foil, which is often used for high gloss and matt. The handicrafts made by this gold plating process have a great relationship with the quality of periodic protection paint. The transparency of protective paint directly affects the effect of golden texture.

Gold-plating Buddha protection method

1. Crystal gold-plated glue

In the past, the color of glue used to paste gold was different, so the color of gold pasted on transparent objects could not be consistent inside and outside. The appearance of crystal hot stamping glue just makes up for this defect and provides a new starting point for the development of hot stamping technology. Using crystal gilding glue, you can make a gold effect with the same color on various transparent materials such as transparent film and glass materials. This adhesive is characterized by long curing time, transparency, colorless, strong adhesion and thick golden texture.

2. Purple high-strength hot stamping glue

In order to solve the problems of peeling, peeling and insufficient adhesion when pasting gold on smooth and hard surfaces, Jinwen has successfully developed a high-strength gold paste after more than a year of development and research. This kind of glue has strong adhesion when sticking gold foil on smooth bronze, stainless steel and other surfaces, and the stability of the glue is strong, and the gold foil attached is strong. However, due to the addition of special materials, the curing time of this glue is particularly long, which takes 64-70 hours under normal circumstances and more than 80 hours in cold weather. Only by mastering the best starting point of gilding time can we make the best gilding process.