Jianbao life

Chapter 483 Live Carving
Wu Ke was amused by Chu Chen's words, but Gu Jianming took it seriously. Otherwise, why could Chu Chen be able to carve such extraordinary objects after only learning jade carving for a few days?What's more, there is an element of luck in it.

Thinking of this, Gu Jianming couldn't help sighing inwardly. It's really annoying to compare people to others. I, a teacher who has studied for more than ten years, can't compare with a newcomer who has only studied for a few days. Thinking about it, I feel very frustrated.Fortunately, he also knew that people like Chu Chen were rare, otherwise he would have fallen into self-doubt.

Chu Chen handed one of the pendants carved with a phoenix to Wu Ke, and said with a smile, "We each have one piece."

"Ok!"

Wu Ke happily agreed, and then couldn't put it down to play with it. You must know that this was carved for the two of them by Chu Chen himself, and it was the first master-level jade carved by Chu Chen. It has a very special meaning for her. significance.

Gu Jianming looked very keenly. You must know that the material used for this pair of pendants is the bright green of Laokeng glass species. Needless to say, the collection value and economic value of the Laokeng glass pendant carved by a master jade carving. If it is put on the market, let alone how popular it is.

He didn't expect to get a glass pendant like this, as long as it was an ice pendant, he was already satisfied.

"Boss, when you are free in the future, can you carve a jadeite ornament for me to collect?" Gu Jianming said a little embarrassed.

"Yes!" Chu Chen smiled slightly, indicating that there is no problem, and then said: "But I don't even know when I will become a real master of jade carving!"

"It's okay, it's okay!" Gu Jianming waved his hands again and again: "For me, your knife skills are already at the master level, and I am already very satisfied with the carved jade."

"It's better to hit the sun than choose the day. I happen to be free now, so I will help you carve one now!"

Chu Chen said: "And I feel that I still have some things that are not in place. Now I can let you give me some pointers. What do you think?"

Of course, Gu Jianming would not have any opinion on this, and quickly agreed.

Next, Chu Chen selected a piece of jadeite on Gu Jianming's workbench that was more suitable for a pendant. This jadeite was made of high-ice sun-green material, and the emerald color was fairly uniform, and the quality was still very good.

After carefully looking at the piece of jadeite material, Chu Chen said, "I will carve a statue of Guanyin from this piece of material, what do you think?"

Gu Jianming originally planned to use this piece of material to carve a statue of Guanyin, so he didn't have any objections.

"Master Gu, I can only borrow your knives for a while today, and mine is still at home."

The pair of dragon and phoenix pendants Chu Chen carved in Yuhuating the day before yesterday. He didn't expect to carve jade today, so he didn't bring the knives, and it happened that he could also try the feeling of using different knives.

The knives used by Chu Chen and the two jade carving masters were all made of imported alloys, but when Chu Chen bought them, there were only two sets of knives of the same material, so Chu Chen chose another set, although the knives The characteristics between them are similar, but there are still some subtle differences.

"Okay, you can use it!"

After Gu Jianming agreed, Chu Chen first carefully sketched the pattern on the jade, and then picked up the carving knife.

Just when Gu Jianming wondered why Chu Chen started to carve without observing the material, he saw that Chu Chen chose a piece of leftover material on the workbench and carved a few knives. At this moment, he realized that Chu Chen was just trying first. test knife.

After Chu Chen became familiar with the knives, he picked up the piece of jade material and observed it carefully. Of course, this was just what it looked like on the bright side. In the dark, he had already used Lingbao Eye to take a good look at this piece of high-ice jadeite. Transparency, the material and details of the emerald have been deeply engraved in his mind.

After a few minutes like this, Chu Chen officially began to cut the sword, but in order to avoid arousing Gu Jianming's suspicion, he had decided in advance to be naive in some places, but even so, Gu Jianming was quite surprised.

In Gu Jianming's eyes, although Chu Chen's carving techniques seem a little rusty, they are often done in one go. Even if some places are not handled properly, they don't stop because of this, and they are very coherent.This also makes Chu Chen's performance look quite confident.

Gu Jianming was amazed by this, and felt in his heart that it was probably because of Chu Chen's self-confidence that was different from ordinary people, coupled with his very powerful talent, that in just a few days, To be able to have such incredible results.

On the other hand, Gu Jianming also discovered that Chu Chen also had his own unique views on the priority of knife work, forming a relatively unique knife work, and the places treated by this kind of knife work looked more natural.

Seeing this, Gu Jianming could only shake his head with a wry smile secretly, because this kind of knife work was completely integrated into Chu Chen's own philosophy, even if he wanted to learn it, he couldn't learn it. He can attack jade. If he can often study Chu Chen's knife skills, it will also be very helpful to improve his carving skills. Maybe he can break through the barrier that has troubled him for a long time.

Chu Chen devoted himself to carving the Guanyin statue, but now there are outsiders present, and he can't be as unsuspecting as he is at home, so in addition to being slower than at home, sometimes he has to distract himself to look at it. Gu Jianming's reaction, if there is anything unusual about Gu Jianming, then he can only hide his clumsiness.

Fortunately, Gu Jianming looked quite normal, otherwise, the quality of this Guanyin pendant would be hard to say.

Time passed by little by little, and the carving knife in Chu Chen's hand was changed one after another. When he replaced the last carving knife and finished the fine carving, he picked up the rag on the table and took the carved Guanyin pendant, Wipe it carefully, put it in front of Gu Jianming, and said with a smile: "Master Gu, what do you think?"

"good, very good!"

As he said that, Gu Jianming took the Guanyin pendant into his hand and admired it carefully, making "tsk tsk" admiration from time to time.

Finally, he sincerely admired: "Boss, your craftsmanship has improved rapidly. Let's just say that this Guanyin pendant is really good, with a dignified shape, a smiling face, a peaceful expression, well-proportioned body, and realistic hands and feet." Delicate, dynamic, and exquisitely carved!"

"Master Gu, you are too much of a compliment." Chu Chen waved his hand and said, "I think this expression is a bit unnatural, and the movement is a bit blunt. If these two aspects can be corrected, it should be better. , and I think it’s better to use another way to deal with these places.”

As he spoke, he pointed to a few places that he thought needed to be corrected.

Although Gu Jianming agreed with Chu Chen's opinion, he felt that the flaws did not conceal the merits, and these shortcomings could not cover up the advantages of this jadeite jade article. It can be said that, except for these places, this Guanyin pendant has already reached the level of a master. How could he not be amazed?
"By the way, boss, how much is this pendant?"

Chu Chen shook his head and said, "Master Gu, it's no fun for you to ask for money. No matter what, I can still afford a pendant of the high ice species!"

"This...how is this so embarrassing?" Gu Jianming said very embarrassedly.

Chu Chen smiled slightly and said, "What's there to be embarrassed about? You should also know that my eyesight for betting on stones is not bad. The cost of high-ice jadeite like this is not much, so you can accept it with peace of mind."

Gu Jianming thought for a while and said: "Okay, then I will not be polite!"

"That's right!" Chu Chen said with a smile, "But I'm not good at polishing, so I can only trouble you to do it yourself."

"No problem at all!" Gu Jianming said with a smile: "If you have time, why don't I tell you how to polish it now?"

Chu Chen looked at the time and found that it was still early, so he looked at Wu Ke.

Wu Ke said with a reasonable smile: "I'm fine, you can just listen to Master Gu's lectures for you!"

Chu Chen chuckled, and then the two followed Gu Jianming to the polishing machine.

"If we usually polish, there are generally two ways. Bare body jade articles such as bracelets and ring surfaces are mostly polished by hand. For various flower pieces of Guanyin and Maitreya Buddha, they are polished by dipping machines. The dipping machine takes a long time to polish. , It takes about a week or so to complete, but a large batch can be polished at a time."

Gu Jianming introduced to the two of them: "However, this is a general situation. What we make is mid-to-high-end jadeite, so we generally don't use dipping machines to polish it. Because of time constraints, let me show you the polishing of the ring surface first. "

After finishing speaking, Gu Jianming picked up an emerald ring surface prepared in advance, and then polished it while introducing it to the two.

"First of all, I want to apply a layer of polishing powder to the surface of the carved ring. The polishing powder is green chromium oxide and orange red is cerium oxide. This step is called paste. A protective effect."

After applying the polishing powder, Gu Jianming went on to introduce: "Next, I will polish the surface of the ring surface. Be careful in this step. It is better to be lighter than too heavy, otherwise more jade will be worn off, which will be very difficult. The utensils may be damaged."

After finishing speaking, Gu Jianming began to polish the surface of the ring with tools, and then repeated the steps just now twice.After finishing, he polished the surface of the ring with a bristle brush, followed by fine polishing, fine cleaning, waxing and finally drying the surface of the ring, and the entire polishing process was completely completed.

Gu Jianming washed his hands, and then said: "The polishing of the ring surface should be regarded as the simplest. If it is a jade article such as Guanyin and Buddha statues, before the fine polishing, it is necessary to deal with the small places that cannot be thrown by large tools. able to proceed to the next step.”

(End of this chapter)