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No picture! You're killing me @Bok!

alejandro2high wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:18 pm

I got the pot from Daniel at The Chinese Tea Shop. It might be possible, in accordance to what you're saying, that the pot is from the 90s and not the 80s.

Daniel exaggerates, is the word I've heard.

About 10-15 years ago you could buy these pots in museum gift shops across the U.S. for $15-$45 dollars. Same with the other plant-themed pots I've seen here recently. They are modern and use doped clays. I certainly would pass on these. What makes you think that my teapot is a modern knockoff and ...

Hey everyone. I hope you're all having a nice day. So, I bought this vintage Ju Lun Zhu, and the spout was a little wonky. I decided to use a file to try and get it looking better. My perception is gone from working on it so much, so I can no longer judge whether it looks even/good. What do y'all t...

Drank the Naked Yiwu from @Teas We Like today. Powerful cha qi, very energetic. Made me want to write. Quite the tea -- nice and sweet, but not overly so. Definitely gonna pick up a cake.

How is a patina like this even possible? Is this even patina?

Quite the interesting article. This would probably account for why I feel a fine mesh strainer thins out the mouthfeel of a tea.

You won't find a farm that doesn't use ANY herbicides, pesticides, etc. -- just one's that use organic ones.

Mark-S wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 12, 2020 3:02 pm

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Oh, that would be a disappointment. The set did not look wonky to me at all.

Wait til it arrives -- lens distortion could account for the weird proportions

It’s very common for ZhuNi of any era to appear glossy after cleaning and a light buff. Zhuni shines more than the other clays? I did not know that. Thanks for the explanation. :) If anybody here has bought a shiny teapot from Yinchen: Could you please tell me how realistic/natural their pictures o...

90% of Yixing professional product photos are heavily photoshopped, because it's basically one studio in yixing taking these product photos for everyone. I'd direct you to my post on color science for a more detailed overview, but I'd also just like to point out that while obviously photoshop can b...

@Mark-S

I know that you *can* get artificially shiny results from simple buffing/polishing the pot, though unless we saw their lighting setup for those photos we couldn't really gauge how shiny that particular pot is.

Is that pot from 70s-early 80s? It looks nice. Show us some pictures of the inside when you get a chance. yeah, should be green label period. Here's the inside, though wet from previous brew. You can see one of two small firing spots. https://imgur.com/4toYiOW The coating is very even, and if it we...

New pot from @Bok came today!!





150ml-ish NWLH

aet wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:02 pm

where is the "tea discord" ?

communiTEA, here's the invite link: https://discord.gg/tea