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Miyamoto Musashi Tsuba

Miyamoto Musashi Tsuba

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Miyamoto Musashi Tsuba

Making your katana more 'personal' can be done very easily by changing it's tsuba. By removing the mekugi (bamboo pins) you will be able to take your sword apart.

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  • made by Paul Chen
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Miyamoto Musashi Tsuba



Inlaying of soft metals such as gold, silver, copper or brass alloys became prevalent in the 14th century. Initially inlaying utilised the baser metals and a degree of crudity in execution.



A depression was cut in the surface by chisel. The sides of the depression are burred up while the sides of the inlay are beveled. The inlay is also domed slightly so it has a smaller footprint. Once the inlay is in situ the dome is flattened to spread it into the depression and the burr is pressed back down trapping it in place. By the end of the fourteenth century raised inlays were used so that they could be relief carved.



In other surface techniques a chisel was used to create a crosshatch pattern in the parent metal then a layer of gold foil was laid on the pattern and hammered into it with a wooden punch after which it is burnished. Another method involved using thin wire and small pieces of soft metal fused directly into the surface to create detail.



Overlays were also created by fire gilding an amalgam of soft alloy and mercury into the surface. The heat drives off the mercury leaving the gold or other metal fused to the iron. Thats how they got the coppery color on the surface of those WW11 brass koshirae.

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Rewrapping the tsuka with the material and or color of your choice, changing fuchi & kashira , tsuba, menuki and or seppa are all possible.

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