Metal Fillers

[jesse]

Members - I have been trying to figure out what type of soft medal is used to fill holes (Meguki, Tsuba, etc).

If any one can point me to the appropriate documentation/forum, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

Jesse

[Fuuten]

From memory alone, for tsuba, i think they used the same sort of materials they used for tsuba, so copper, bronze, silver, gold and shibuichi. And probably more than i can list now.

 

I'm not sure on what they used to fill menuki if needed, but i suppose its the same array of metal alloys.

[Teimei]

Hi Jesse,

 

for tsuba, i have seen shakudo, lead and Gold and a lot of alloys of such metals.

 

Did you mean menuki or mekugi? For mekugi, lead was the material of choice.

 

 

 

 

regards,

[Barrie B]

Jesse,

 

Do you mean holes in Tsuba - as in the Kogai and Kozuka ana..? because almost any soft metal is used, as previously said above…  This tsuba has a gold  plug in the kogai ana; however, almost any medium was used…

 

 

Barrie.

[Fuuten]

Hi Jesse,

 

for tsuba, i have seen shakudo, lead and Gold and a lot of alloys of such metals.

 

Did you mean menuki or mekugi? For mekugi, lead was the material of choice.

 

 

regards,

 

Sorry I must've read menuki - my bad.

[jesse]

Thanks for all of the info.

 

and now I know.

 

Jesse