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Bought a $45 mug repair kit from a craft fair in Tulsa and it made my favorite chip look worse
I have a stoneware mug my daughter made in her 7th grade pottery class back in 2011, and it has a chip on the rim that has never once bothered me. A vendor at a craft fair in Tulsa sold me a $45 kit with food safe epoxy and some kind of colored filler powder to fix chips, and I figured why not. I followed the directions exactly, waited the full 72 hours for it to cure, and the patch came out a weird grayish yellow that does not match the glaze at all. Worse, the spot is now slightly raised, so every time I take a sip my lip catches on it like a little speed bump. It has been 4 months and I cannot scrape the stuff off no matter what I try, so I am stuck with a mug that looks like it has a wart. Has anyone actually had luck with one of these kits, or do you just learn to live with the chip?
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milesp386h ago
My buddy did the same thing with a bowl his mom made and the epoxy turned this nasty brownish color that stood out way more than the chip ever did. He tried sanding it, picking at it with a knife, even soaking it, and nothing worked so he just uses it as a pen holder now. Maybe it's just me but those kits seem to cause more harm than the chip ever did, and a little chip on something your kid made is honestly just part of the story.
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