Recent content by jblakey

Had a chance on a beautiful spring day last weekend to sit outside for an hour or so and get the fittings on the tsuka. It's always surprising how chunky the Chinese-made tsuka are when I try to put Japanese-made fittings on them. Lots of wood needs to be removed to get them on. Just go...

Polished up the fittings, and I’m thinking of sticking with this finish. Maybe some silver rub and buff, but I’m liking this look. cleaning that black paint off the fittings was no fun. Acetone didn’t work, paint remover didn’t work much, Mothers Mag and Aluminium polish worked the best.

So, after a number of years of hunting down parts and FINALLY getting a set of the handle fittings (fuchi/kashira), I can finally start on Budd's sword from Kill Bill! It didn't get a lot of screen time, but I guess I needed to make all the Hanzo katana:) ProTip - if you watch closely in...

Here's what I've got so far - I've been playing with a few different 3d modeling apps (mostly OnShape and Fusion360), but I don't know them well enough to really model a super-accurate version of the kojiri. This TinkerCAD model is pretty close on the general shape, though. I'll probably need...

Nice job - really inventive work! That kojiri really is the hardest part. Most saya are too thick for the accurate kojiri to fit. It's always a problem (if the saya is not built from the ground up to fit that kojiri). I've been working on trying to come up with a 3d-printed kojiri myself...

A lot of the content is still up here: Hattori Hanzo Sword Build Thanks, jason

Thanks much:)

I'm still making them:) Feel free to send me a DM. Thanks, jason

:) That was a really great project to work on, and a great guy to work on it with! Really nice video, and nice to see he's still enjoying it! And yes, my wife did sew that cord!:) Hard to believe Adam remembered that 8 years later:) Thanks for the link, Odin82, I appreciate it.

btw, great screenshots!

Those studs look like they could also be a kind of furniture tack/nail... there are many, many styles available in that school... http://mascofabrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/DadsCatalog_Nails.pdf And if all else fails, they could always be 3d printed and finished...

They look like simple pyramidal / circular studs/rivets, which seem pretty common. Between these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33061987549.html and these...

These guys seem to have a nice rolled edge technique... https://www.subverseindustries.com/products/pinkerton-top-hat-oxblood-red-rolled-edge-band jason

Now I want to make one of those skull caps!:)

I've been wanting one of these since I was a widdle kid, and I figured since I have a 3D printer, I'll finally make it happen:) Did the design up in TinkerCad, epoxied on a buckle backing from "Rings and Things", and bingo-bango, there it is! Here's the link to the buckle back - really, it...