Re: japanese stars

I dug out my copy of Shimizu. The Toro is used as the moisture base
while being productive in coating the stars with some comp at the same
time. Powder is still shaken on to the wet stars to build them up.


Here's the excerpt from page 186 of Shimizu's F.A.S.T:

"Here is a description of the method of pasting stars, using
water, and commencing with cubic cut stars. First prepare a slurry
with water from the same composition as the cut stars of the core. The
slurry is called "Toro". The viscosity of the Toro is important; at
first the viscosity must not be too high, because the cores are light
and apt to stick to each other. Add water to the Toro to adjust the
viscosity so that the cores do not stick to each other during the
operation. As each star grows and becomes heavy, the grains do not
stick to each other as much.The next operation increases the viscosity
so that the water in the slurry does not soak into each grain quite so
much or so deeply during the operation. Place well dried cubic stars
in a bowl which has a round base. Pour the Toro on to the stars in
small amounts pasting the surface of each cubic star with it by
shaking the bowl constantly. Sprinkle powder of the same composition
on to the stars and shake the bowl again. The powder adheres on each
grain. If the grains stick together separate them by hand or sieving.
Repeat the operation; adding Toro and then powder two or three times
and then place the grains in the sunshine. If they are left in the
shade, the water soaks into the grains, and the grains crumble. When
the grains are perfectly dried, repeat the same operation once more,
and all the grains will become spherical. Next the grains are coated
with a new composition by the same operation according to a colour
change plan. The grains thus grow step by step by the repetition of
the coating process. If the Toro remains at the bottom of the bowl
during shaking, the amount of Toro is too much; if the powder remains
at the bottom, then the amount of the powder is too great. Under ideal
conditions the bottom of the bowl glistens."


--
Andy H.
"Clean up your workspace or die..."

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:07:29 GMT, Gomez Adams <railgun@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So the Toro is what is actually used to build up the star? I imagine
that there is a considerably wait between additions to let the water
evaporate a bit before the next application?

.

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