How much work is it to make a HABAKI?

[ROKUJURO]

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[Kantaro]

Much

[Bugyotsuji]

Sat in on a two-day workshop as a habaki creation interpreter for a shirogané-shi and was stunned by the serious amount of detailed work and the numbers of materials, tools and processes.

[Curran]

Last sword I bought was a few years ago.

Double mukansa blade (from province D) that was made for the head of the LDP (also from province D).

 

Blade, habaki, and shirasaya were made in 2002.

I admit part of the appeal was the price included a double gold habaki.

In hindsight, it looks like I bought a habaki with a sword attached to it.

[lonely panet]

I nearly feel asleep watching this, its so relaxing. The filing the hammer.

 

The perfect sounds for relaxing

[eternal_newbie]

Just now, lonely panet said:

The perfect sounds for relaxing

 

There's something comforting, almost meditative, about observing master artisans doing their work.

[PNSSHOGUN]

A finely made Habaki is such a pleasant object, thank you for sharing. 

[Hokke]

For those fluent in Japanese, any idea why it was translated to "wax" soldering for both the copper base and gold outer? 

[OceanoNox]

7 hours ago, Hokke said:

For those fluent in Japanese, any idea why it was translated to "wax" soldering f

In Japanese, brazing is called ロウ付け (roh zuke). Roh is Japanese for solder, but it's also the pronunciation of the Japanese word for wax. The latter being much more common, I suppose whoever did the translation got it mixed.

[Hokke]

1 hour ago, OceanoNox said:

In Japanese, brazing is called ロウ付け (roh zuke). Roh is Japanese for solder, but it's also the pronunciation of the Japanese word for wax. The latter being much more common, I suppose whoever did the translation got it mixed.

Perfect, thank you the clarification. 

[Bugyotsuji]

Traditional Ro-zuke (at over 450 degrees) is different from modern Handa-zuke (at less than 450 degrees).