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Well I'm making an aikuchi like object and practicing my coreless paracord wrap. I completed the full length today for the first time except for finishing the butt wrap and it's definitely better than yesterday! That's blue richlite scales underneath and nothing's been glued up yet. I added the nubby guards because I can't abide a smooth transition from handle to edge, seems too dangerous if one's hand slips. My plan is to eventually add a turk's head knot to the front maybe. I do have a couple of questions:
You can see my diamonds aren't near good enough yet and my twists seem to migrate out towards the tang edges instead of staying centered. Do I just push them in with a fine tool or something? I've seen repeated references to hishigami, tiny little paper triangles that go under each wrap but don't know if they are for holding the twists toward the center.
In the vertical view you can see it's kind of a mess. I did not tap these down with a mallet in this picture, haven't tried that yet. Is that what I need to do?
My plan is to finish by brushing on cyanoacrylate and a source for a small can would be helpful, I need a bunch of other supplies and would like enough to do many more of these. Hopefully it would have a long shelf life cause it will be a while.
Here's links to the 2 sites I'm using: http://www.cottontailcustoms.com/tsukamaki/ and
In the video the guy goes slow so that's pretty helpful and cottontailcustoms is a pictorial/written. both seem pretty good.
And finally, I wasn't planning on using the blaze orange except for practice but either red or black as shown, for aesthetics what do you prefer?
You can see my diamonds aren't near good enough yet and my twists seem to migrate out towards the tang edges instead of staying centered. Do I just push them in with a fine tool or something? I've seen repeated references to hishigami, tiny little paper triangles that go under each wrap but don't know if they are for holding the twists toward the center.
In the vertical view you can see it's kind of a mess. I did not tap these down with a mallet in this picture, haven't tried that yet. Is that what I need to do?
My plan is to finish by brushing on cyanoacrylate and a source for a small can would be helpful, I need a bunch of other supplies and would like enough to do many more of these. Hopefully it would have a long shelf life cause it will be a while.
Here's links to the 2 sites I'm using: http://www.cottontailcustoms.com/tsukamaki/ and
In the video the guy goes slow so that's pretty helpful and cottontailcustoms is a pictorial/written. both seem pretty good.
And finally, I wasn't planning on using the blaze orange except for practice but either red or black as shown, for aesthetics what do you prefer?
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