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I just had to share the pics I just received of a Patrick Hastings piece that I've been really looking forward to.
A while ago I'd purchased a nice 'Shoki' theme'd tsuba & fuchi that really caught my eye. Great pieces sized for a wakazashi that I really wanted to do something with, but the missing kashira was going to make it difficult.
Around the same time I'd also been talking to a dealer about aquiring a Hastings wakazashi that he had. Of course I took the opportunity to see about having Patrick create a kashira to match the set.
Flash forward to this morning when I open my email to see a pic of kashira Patrick has worked up.
While I haven't been able to see it in person yet, even from the pics it's remarkable just how close to the original in both style and finish the new piece is.
Original fuchi:
New matching kashira:
A while ago I'd purchased a nice 'Shoki' theme'd tsuba & fuchi that really caught my eye. Great pieces sized for a wakazashi that I really wanted to do something with, but the missing kashira was going to make it difficult.
Around the same time I'd also been talking to a dealer about aquiring a Hastings wakazashi that he had. Of course I took the opportunity to see about having Patrick create a kashira to match the set.
Flash forward to this morning when I open my email to see a pic of kashira Patrick has worked up.
While I haven't been able to see it in person yet, even from the pics it's remarkable just how close to the original in both style and finish the new piece is.
Original fuchi:
New matching kashira:
