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Jon Masutatsu

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Hello everyone , 

 

My name is Jon Saito , member of the Japanese Armour Society (JAS) , Samurai Arms and Armour Forum (SAAF) . Budo enthusiast who practiced 

Judo , kendo and karate. Passionate about Katchu in particular and caretaker of my family's Nihonto/Katchu collection. Under the guidance of Katchushi

David Thatcher I graduated in the fine art of lacing Odoshi-Ito. Currently I am working on an Eboshi Nuinobe gusoku in Kebiki. I live in Amsterdam , Holland.

 

Please feel free to use my services.

 

Best regards ,

 

Jon S.

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Nice to see you Jon! As a Japanese Armor Society member, you know that preservation and restoration are important to maintain the beauty of armor for future generations.

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Making the odoshi to the correct thickness and width for your armour is now a possibility as it is produced in the UK.The colouring we use are made of natural organic pigments.Also our odoshi is pre stretched so there is no distortion. Matching the colour of the existing old odoshi on your armour is an option but bear in mind that this process requires a lot of testing and is needless to say very time consuming.

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I carefully removed the shikoro from the hachi making sure the shanks of the byo remained intact as 

well as the ukebari liner. Before proceeding to remove the disentregrating odoshi I made plenty of 

photo's of all angles for references. Stripping the odoshi ever so gently away from the lames so

not to damage the urushi. Some holes were the rust particles merged with the odoshi became

as hard as concrete and had to be drilled out. After this was done I treated the lames with kikko mol polishing paste and consolidated the hairline cracks.

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