My latest Tsukamaki

[Cottontail Customs]

Greetings,

I wanted to share my latest Tsukamaki. this is a Tsuka for a Kris Cutlery Katana 26a and features a full wrap samegawa, brown silk ito and Japanese fan Menuki.

thanks for looking

-Josh

 

[horseclover]

Your work always looks great Josh. I like this color for ito, also something in green.

Have you ever read/seen this fellows methodology?
http://www.montanairon.com/tsukamaki.html

Keith Larman used to occasionally post in progress shots of his tsuka work and I always found it fascinating, even though not much drawn to modern work at all. I do appreciate all the work that goes into the traditional methods for Japanese swords.

Cheers

GC.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

VERY nice! :thumbup:

 

[blankityblankssupply]

Josh,

That is excellent work - very impressive! I don't make swords and I have never seen anything like that on a handle. What exactly is the technique called? I would like to find a book on it - it looks really interesting. What are the white beads under the wrapping? My name is Renee Borek (Blankity-Blanks) and I sell wood on the knife forum. I was just looking around the forum pages tonight and saw your post. I have had several sword handle size pieces of Afzelia (snake skin) xy-lay and also some cochin rosewood that are longer sword handle size as well as other things. Do you sword makers have a special section I could show you some of the pieces I have for sale? Most of the things I am selling on the forum are standard knife handle sizes, but I would like to help the sword makers too with their needs as well. For now, we are selling our wood at wholesale cost - not retail. If I can help you or your fellow sword makers in any way please let me know how I can do that. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know how much i like your handle.

Take Care,

Renee

 

[broe]

The 'white beads' are probably plastic underlayment, I am not sure. Usually the color is a bit more cream. Normally the material is ''same'" or stingray skin. The bumps are dentition scales on the skin.

 

[horseclover]

The 'white beads' are probably plastic underlayment, I am not sure. Usually the color is a bit more cream. Normally the material is ''same'" or stingray skin. The bumps are dentition scales on the skin.

Per the craftsman, "full wrap samegawa". Not plastic.

Cheers

GC

 

[BePrepared]

Can you do leather ito Tsukamaki?

 

[Cottontail Customs]

Thank you for posting your comments. the white material under the silk cord is genuine rayskin applied in a "full wrap" around the entire wooden core.
I can wrap handles like this in a variety of materials including silk, cotton, leather, suede, nubuck, doeskin, etc.
here are some additional pictures of the KC 26a pictured above.

[video=youtube_share;eR4M4JgIzb4]http://youtu.be/eR4M4JgIzb4[/video]


here's one in black leather

-Josh