Posted on 06/01/2006 1:08:49 PM PDT by Buck Ninety-Nine
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"You are out of order.
The chair does not recognize the speaker.
Please sit down."
Neil Diamond sits back down.
LOL!!
That is the only one of Barry's examples I remember. It was about 15 or more years ago.
if I were to go into this as a business - which is not something I have considered - I would definitely work out some kind of arrangement with a machine shop to knock out at least the tsuba blanks, perhaps a few variants of the weight-reducing piercings, but each being standardized with a 3.10"diameter x .250"thick with a milled hilt oval of standardized dimensions.
Hi KP!
Happy Independence Day long weekend.
:-)
Re-enactor types are the guys who won't spend $150 on a good sport coat, but will spend $500 for one made in the correct style of their time period...even if it's really not made all that well, when you look at the tailoring niceties...$100 for some really badly made shoes, but that are period correct, $1500 to $2000 on a fire arm they really won't want to use too often, because black powder requires such careful cleaning,$400 for a scrimshawed powder horn cause it looks just like the one someone made in Lancaster county in 1750....and so on and so on....and $30-70 a pair for simple wool socks, long as they are hand knit.
But for some reason or other, my period glasses ended up costing about the same as my current prescription...but the period ones only have my distance correction....and I still haven't found the right shoes...
he's the one asking me to do it, at the price named.
I know I do quality hand-craft, don't mistake.
It just strikes me as ass-backward to pay One Large for a wood practice sword when you can get a damn good real sword for less than five Benjamins.
*scratching head*
If he says he wants it, and fronts half the money cash down, I'll do it, but that won't make me stop feeling like I'm robbing him.
unlike many folks, I'll be working tomorrow. and possibly some of tuesday as well. I'd be at work now were it not for my neighbor's dog's incessant bawling and a case of leg-twitchies keeping me up all night. "off days" are a good time for me to get stuff done - no interruptions :)
It looks as though, for your purposes, an ornately carved tsuba would add a great deal of realism and artistry to the product.
It doesn't seem too costly, according to that link. And it appears that the customer (you) would need to do most of the work as far as loading up the program with the artwork to be carved into the blank.
Personally, I would like to see a good dragon drawing, like the one on Bentfeather's About page, turned into an ornate tsuba.
You do realize that you could produce and sell the tsuba only, for the price you determine it should be?
(Didn't mean to disturb you, Miss 'Feather, just pinging you because I was talking about you.)
It's too bad you have to work, but you're right, you get more done.
How's the neighbors dog now?
;-)
I suppose I'll just have to adjust my way of thinking - people who cannot do precision hand fabrication yet who love the stuff will set their own values on products, irrespective of my opinion.
one thing, though - if I'm going to make these and by necessity sell 'em for what I consider highway-robbery prices, I really must find a supplier of the proper silk braid grip-laces. Shoe-laces simply will not do, not at those prices.
most tsuba throughout the feudal period were plain - like shields in the Legions, they hadda work for a living.
Japanese tastes in weapons went through several evolutions in the Edo (Tokugawa Shogunate) period, flip-flopping from utilitarian to highly ornate and back to utilitarian.
Most kendo/kenjutsu "purists" today favor simplistic utilitarianism, letting the elegance of the design show its own beauty uncluttered by adornment. And there is good reason for this - the way the various mechanical solutions come together in pure functional harmony produces a remarkably beautiful blade, to which adornments add nothing of value to a practicioner.
otoh, there are a lotta folks out there who buy swords meant to be wall ornaments, and they have a different sense of aesthetics.
It is a useful link. I'll definitely keep it on my Favorites bar, in case someone wants that "little something extra"
Suggestion: Plenty of VietNamese immigrants in America. I thought of my sister-in-law. They may also be a source for silk braid.
Well now that would depend.
After all what is Pop?
pop
Informal adj.
1. Of or for the general public; popular or popularized: pop culture; pop psychology.
2. Of, relating to, or specializing in popular music: a pop singer.
3. Of or suggestive of pop art: a pop style.
However that tells us exactly nothing as certain songs may be popular and yet not be Pop.
As far as I can tell Pop is a general category under which music that is not C&W, Rap, Rock, Jazz, Soul, Classical or Metal is placed.
Does this mean that this music is uniformly bad?
just measured the cord on my chisa katana's hilt
it comes out as @8mm wide
http://www.toraba.com/restoration-odoshi.htm
that'd be $45 (plus S+H) for ten meters - enough for three hilts, I think.
not a bad investment - it isn't like I would NOT find a use for the braid if it is not appropriate for the hilt.
and damn me if I don't feel like I have posted this before. deja vu in spades. wierd.
You got her!
Woo-Hoo!
That's three sevens.
try saving enough to purchase a complete CSMC "kit"! that gives NEW meaning to HIGH!
free dixie,sw
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