Two hospital veteran tsuba

Bugyotsuji · December 22, 2021

A friend handed me a couple of Tsuba recently. “These were in a junk box, and I tried to clean them up” he said. “What can you do with them?”

Well, I know *what I can do with them, but they are, uh… sorry, they were genuine tsuba once upon at time.

*Bury them.

Detail of lifting zōgan

Spartancrest · December 22, 2021

Do you know any magicians?

Number one might make a recovery but number two looks terminal to me. :sad:

Shugyosha · December 22, 2021

Give them a decent burial, they’re past help. :-(

Spartancrest · December 22, 2021

If you are going to 'bury' them send number one to me! I've brought back worse than that.

vajo · December 22, 2021

Zombie Tsuba - dead but happy being alive.

mas4t0 · December 22, 2021

Did he tell you what he did to "clean them up"?

It looks like he gave them a Hydrochloric acid bath, or they were underwater for a long time.

Spartancrest · December 22, 2021

Chris: Zombie tsuba do smell a bit funky! :laughing:

Mark: Maybe they had already been buried?

Bugyotsuji · December 23, 2021

Apologies for the poor lighting last night on the kitchen table. Jeez, you should see them in daylight.

(I’ve placed them on a coarse file to protect the window sill.)

Bugyotsuji · December 25, 2021

Reading the ‘iron Tsuba - cleaning’ thread, I thought I’d play around with the larger of these two here and see what happens. If there’s any improvement at all, I’ll post the result. :dunno:

Bugyotsuji · December 27, 2021

After several days of near fruitless effort, I have decided to show this tsuba under very strict conditions.

Following presentation of a QR code with triple vaccination certificate, and wearing a mask, preferably a black one like Zorro, the visitor must:

A Keep your eyes shut at all times.

B Not peek, or try to focus in any closer than the deliberately distant shot it is set at.

C Spend more time enjoying the surroundings and setting, (preferably your own) and thinking about what you will have for your next meal. Note the length of one Shaku.

NB For all intents and purposes this is as far as I am going with it. Decorative at a distance. To erase the mottled surface would take more radical action than I am prepared to attempt.

Also, it is worth noting that it would still perform its basic function as a tsuba, as long as the owner did not wish to take any pride in it as a work of art. Not close-up, anyway.