If you’re handy, have a set of tin snips, small vice and metal files, you can make springs from hacksaw blades. I can send you pictures that will get you close to final fitting.

PS, Don should start giving me kickbacks…I refer a lot of business to him. Haha. Kidding aside, he’s a huge asset to the Japaneseicon collector community.

I second posting your urushi experiment…I’d love to see what it looks like when done.