Homemade Kabutowari saya and tsuka.

[dimitri]

Good evening everyone. I hope I am in the right section. First of all, I would like to thank @Kurikata for the blade and @Stephen for the raw material for the seppa and other accessories. I bought on the forum a blade of kabutowari, having a small and species tsuba which could I have been told well to be placed in a set of Kabutowari, I started to make the set but it was not conclusive. I had the idea of making a homemade saya and tsuka. I realized what was on my mind.

Be honest with me and tell me what could be strange or other, size, thickness, missing engravings? I didn't put anything on it, should I oil the saya or color it?

Another question, for the kabutowari blade, there are stains, is it the same cleaning process for nihonto blades or is there something I can apply while waiting to see my polisher?

Thanks in advance.

Dimitri

[dimitri]

Here is a video of the saya with the engravings of Koi carp.

Since a post on homemade Tsuba, I really want to try and have a whole imperfect but homemade set. And then to succeed one day you have to start well.

Personally I am happy but the contribution of criticism is essential to continue and not to reproduce the errors.

Thank you very much. 

[Stephen]

I'm going to tell you what one of my Pottery instructors told me.

It's O k, now make 10 more.

Not to be taken as criticism..

[dimitri]

Thanks Stephen.

I understand the rhetoric, I'll get back to it later for a second and another form. It's just complicated for the shapes, the photos of a kabutowari koshirae are not too common or there is a lot of sculpture but I'm motivated to do something finer.