Can a small CNC engraving machine succeed in the “revolution” of the jade carving industry?
Now in some shopping malls, you can often see the same kind of Hetian jade pendants, such as the zodiac cards, Guanyin, Buddha pendants, etc. These Hetian jade pendant materials are mostly low-end materials. The price is a few thousand or over 10,000, and the final transaction price is hundreds or thousands of dollars.
The low transaction price means low cost. There are two main factors affecting the cost price of jade. The first is raw materials, the second is engraving. The material is low-end material. The cost of engraving is naturally not high, so engraving There is a machine carving hidden behind it.
History of machine carving:
In fact, the machine carving has appeared in the traditional jade carving industry. In the early stage of machine carving, the main method of embossing was to engrave the embossing technique. It was only in the plane carving, such as the brand, but later, with the development of science and technology, it began to evolve into a three-dimensional sculpture such as a round sculpture. And laser engraving in recent years.
In fact, in the jade carving industry, the development of machine carving is a double-edged sword, which not only enhances productivity and reduces the cost of production, but also exacerbates the competition of the same quality underground jade. Stimulate the constant innovation of the jade carving industry. Therefore, the machine carving is a double-edged sword.
The jade products of machine carvings are often ingeniously crafted, the subject matter is very rich, and has certain attraction. It belongs to the current hot topic and can be recognized by most people. Only then can it be copied in large quantities to flood the Hetian jade market. . Because the efficiency of the machine carving is several times higher than that of the manual, the cost of Hetian jade is greatly reduced, and a batch of hand-made jade carvings are also eliminated.
The high level of machine carving development is not likely to completely replace labor:
Jade carving itself is a traditional Chinese craft. The reason why Chinese jade carving works can be recognized by the world is not only because of the scarcity and expensive raw materials. It is because on these raw materials, it can show the creativity and aesthetic taste of Chinese jade carvings. It has been recognized as the spiritual wealth of the development of human civilization.
In the jade carving process, according to the shape and color of the raw materials, after careful design, the engraving and polishing are started. The problems encountered in the engraving process are thoughts and cleverly processed by the human brain. This is also not achieved in the short-term machine carving.
How to distinguish between manual or machine carving?
Then, for ordinary collectors, they face such jade carving market, how to distinguish which are hand-carved and which are machine-carving?
1. The raw materials of the machine carving works will be cheaper. We can distinguish the machine carvings from the price positioning of the products and which are hand-carved.
2, the machine carving is relatively dull, there is no inward concave arc, it looks more flat, and the edge of the hand-carved will have some inward curvature.
3, the details of the subject matter, the effect of machine carving is not as good as hand-carved, such as the characters in the subject hair, wrinkles and animal hair, not as natural, vivid and expressive.
4, machine carving is a large number of copies, when you see a store with many themes and the same shape of the work, you should be clear, it is likely to be polished by the machine.
The difference between small CNC engraving machine and hand engraving:
The jadeite finished with the super-sonic engraving machine has no craftsmanship, the lines are very stiff, and they all look exactly the same. The machine-pressed things are like the ones cut out with an axe. A Yinxian is a deep pit, and the portrait carvings are not What a vivid expression, blunt and rigid. The most pressing parts of the machine are the Buddha, Guanyin and the pieces. The machine parts are not engraved with knife marks, and the entire surface is orange-skin structure. For such finished products, machine polishing is generally chosen (because the machine pressure is chosen to reduce the cost). After the wax is waxed, the surface of the naked eye is difficult to see that the position of the negative line is not thrown into the light (not to exclude the inside of the finished negative line is not polished), but the nail can be used to pick up the orange peel structure, which is the kind of resistance The feeling of stagnation, or with a magnifying glass, can clearly see the orange peel structure, not the knife marks. Moreover, the lines are rigid and rigid, and the Yinxian (the lines that dig into the recesses) are as thick, deep, and hard as a gully, without excessive and arcing.
The craftsmanship of human hand carving, the matching and application of coloring and enamel, can be from pattern design to craft, throwing away imperfect parts, highlighting perfect or special parts, beautiful and smooth lines, and overall flexibility. Each piece is different, and a good sculpture can be perfectly displayed in terms of craftsmanship, cultural connotation and stone characteristics. A good craftsman can use his own hands to give the stone a spiritual life. Therefore, we must distinguish the difference between hand and machine engraving, its grade and price are vastly different.
