Sando / Steve

[PaceSetter]

Steve. I feel you are going to see a lot of posts from me. I just noticed the "Tanto" knife you finished. Excellent work. Regarding that knife, where, if you do not mind me asking, did you acquire the same~, or rayskin, and where did you learn your wrapping techniques for the handle. I have heard and seen both the traditional and "battle" wrap for Katana's. Thank you in advance.

Pace

 

[Sando]

Pacey,

The Rayskin is from some guy on ebay. Nice fellow, fast with orders. Search this site, I posted his URL not too long ago.

RE: wrapping.

Personally I think my wrapping job sucks. Here's a couple of links I got from Michael Burch I'm using to learn:

http://www.n-p-s.net/tukamaki1.htm

http://pages.prodigy.net/tlbuck/tsuka/tsuka.htm

RE: Clay

That particular blade was clay treated by my teacher Michael Vagnino. Can't take credit for that one!

You have a lot of things to study. Sounds like you want it all at once. I STRONGLY recommend getting lessons. Even a few days can save hundreds of dollars and hours.

They say knife making isn't rocket science. But it's pretty darned close.

Steve

 

[PaceSetter]

Thanks for the lead, Sando. I need to sign off now, but I will contiue my search. I know exactly what you mean when you speak of doing reserch and things of that nature. I have been online for the past week doing nothing but searching Katana parts, steel information, tempering, so on and so on. I just finally broke down and decided to come here and ask for help. As far as going big, yes, a Shira-Saya is going to be my first project. I feel I will more than likely do better in building a saya, or scabbard for the sword that I will with the sword itself. We'll see. Thank you again.

Pace