Tempo??

[Stephen]

did a buy it now just for GP as the ebay pix were out of focus, asked for ones where i could see somethng thinking it was just repo, was sent these via PM on ebay and used cellphone to catupre as i dont think ya can save in there format. So i'll show better when it gets here, obviouse repos? or cast? or 85$ cast out the window?

 

Need to change my tag to bottom feeder .>>LOL<<.

[Brian]

No, not repro or cast. Imho, a nice old iron (Tembo?) tsuba that has decent iron. Looks like a score to me.

Hope I'm not wrong, but I think you did great.

 

Brian

[Stephen]

he put up better photos as I was BIN, does this match a larger one posted some time back, was it yours David S.?

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tempo-tsuba-/30 ... true&rt=nc

[cabowen]

nice "air" about it..... :lol:

[Stephen]

nice Chris, any other kanji, head slap as I did not get the air,,, thought you meant err..lol

[Soshin]

Hi Stephen C.,

 

I have a big brother version of this tsuba mounted on my martial arts training sword. The measurements are 8.0 cm wide by 8.8 cm high. Here is a iPhone photo of it mounted on my katana. The Kanji stamped into the hammered surface is kaze (風). This matches your tsuba Stephen and is fairly common to Tempo tsuba. Not sure what the ko-sukashi design is on my tsuba. Any suggestions would be helpful.

[sabi]

No, not repro or cast. Imho, a nice old iron (Tembo?) tsuba that has decent iron. Looks like a score to me.

Hope I'm not wrong, but I think you did great.

 

Brian

 

Agree, shape looks right, surface texture and stamping are also spot on.

[Thierry BERNARD]

Hi Stephen C.,

 

I have a big brother version of this tsuba mounted on my martial arts training sword. The measurements are 8.0 cm wide by 8.8 cm high. Here is a iPhone photo of it mounted on my katana. The Kanji stamped into the hammered surface is kaze (風). This matches your tsuba Stephen and is fairly common to Tempo tsuba. Not sure what the ko-sukashi design is on my tsuba. Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

Hi David

if your tsuba is the big brother of the Stephan's one they clearly don't have the same father!

[Soshin]

Hi Thierry,

 

Ok, half brothers they had different mothers. :lol:

[laowho]

Hi Stephen C.,

 

I have a big brother version of this tsuba mounted on my martial arts training sword. The measurements are 8.0 cm wide by 8.8 cm high. Here is a iPhone photo of it mounted on my katana. The Kanji stamped into the hammered surface is kaze (風). This matches your tsuba Stephen and is fairly common to Tempo tsuba. Not sure what the ko-sukashi design is on my tsuba. Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

David,

 

I really like the wrap on your training sword. Is this jabara? Any special/particular type/style of wrap that I can research and reproduce for my mounting project? Thanks,

 

Doug C

[Marius]

No offence, but the wrapping on your sword looks rather sloppy, David. Or are my eyes failing me?

[laowho]

No offence, but the wrapping on your sword looks rather sloppy, David. Or are my eyes failing me?

 

It looks like it may have developed some "lumpiness" in spots from use, but what interests me is the apparent lack of braiding whilst giving a full roundness with interesting crossovers. Nothing that I know anything about, I simply like the "fullness" of it all, and the richness of the appearance of a variegated texture strand by strand. Much more organic looking than most of what I've seen..

 

Doug C

[Soshin]

No offence, but the wrapping on your sword looks rather sloppy, David. Or are my eyes failing me?

 

Hi Mariuszk and Doug C.,

 

My hands don't slip so I really don't care to much and the handle is strong. The menuki are reversed like on a Yagyu koshirae. I like menuki like that. One menuki is a Gunto menuki the other is a small pice of copper shaped into three stars. The fuchi-gashira are done in a handachi style but might also be from a Gunto. The saya is nice and fits the blade well.

[laowho]

David,

 

Looking again, I guess that the silk is not jabara after all but a "standard" ito wrap of 8-10mm. However, it has a "gauze" appearance that I can't get away from and now have to have for my project. Do you remember where you ordered it? I was planning to get my remaining koshirae components--saya blank, same, silk, etc--from Namikawa Hebei, but will go where needed for such a "cloth-like" ito wrap like yours.

 

Thanks,

Doug C

[Soshin]

Hi Doug C.,

 

I purchased my training sword from showa22 on eBay. He is just a dealer and moves many swords since 2001 on eBay. He is based Sacramento, CA but travels to and from Japan. He is a customer since he purchased a tsuba from me a about two years ago. Some people don't like him but I have never had a problem.

[laowho]

Thanks David.

 

Stephen, what a find! It seemed to me that I'd seen one of your hot stamp characters somewhere else, either at Haynes' site or possibly at Greg's. And so I did

 

http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.c ... iron-tsuba

 

Namely, the boxed squiggly, appearing once on the front and 3 times on the back. Noticed also that yours shows once on the front and 2 times on the back. Must be a common mark?

 

Doug C

[Stephen]

Doug

 

Heres its big brother ..no bid yet , looks to need some rust resto

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extra-Large-Tsu ... 3ce7839e40

 

amd mine ...would make a great daisho for the sho being a tanto or small wak

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Japanese-Sword- ... RTM1562572

 

Id like to see you win!!! LOL

[laowho]

Well Stephen,

 

Nothing would make me happier than to make you happy. At 94mm it's a beauty, but as I was ogling it my wife told me to post a pic of our 95mm shi shi, and her jest came with a free raised eyebrow. Beware the man whose belly doesn't shake when he laughs.

 

Doug C