An interesting way to go about tsuba... Lets make a cast.

[kusunokimasahige]

Check these two auctions of the same person on Ebay.

 

1: Quite a nice tsuba, pity about the dents.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMURAI-Katana- ... 1e92689122

 

2: A cast in two parts of the same tsuba :

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMURAI-Katana- ... 1e92745342

 

Now about the price for both Items I am not making this topic, It is just quite interesting that someone made a cast of what looks like a fair tsuba with nice workmanship.

 

An idea for the tsuba makers ? Obviously some Chinese persons will have seen this too so lets wait for the first crudely reproduced items.

 

KM

[Uechi]

Really,sorry$5,000 not for me or anybody with more brains then money.

[kusunokimasahige]

As I said, it is not about the price.

 

It is about making casts of tsuba which are nice. You would have to be a very proficient modeller to paint this so it looks real.

 

KM

[Mantis dude]

There are a lot of different products to make castings these days that you can get at stores like michaels arts and crafts supplies. I have some clay like stuff, you mix the 2 colors together and then just press on the piece, makes a rubber mold in about 10 minutes. It you press correctly, you can get a very detailed mold. Have another material which is cool - they are plastic beads that when heated (dipping in hot water) basically melt together and can be used to create a hard plastic mold (you can reheat it to use over and over). I have used both to try and capture signatures that were hard to read and they were able to capture the detail. I know other products exist so in this modern era, making molds is fairly easy with a little practice to get air bubbles out you can mold fairly easily within 10 minutes on some products.

 

When bored I will email people that are obviously clueless to what they have and fill them in, I think that seller needs to be educated but I don't feel like researching the piece at the moment.

[kusunokimasahige]

True Ken. I also use PU rubber to make molds.

 

Still have an EK I mold of the original I once sold.

 

Love working with SFX materials.

 

KM