loempe
July 24th, 2010, 07:35 AM
HI everyone
I had a day off from the familys low budget holliday at home. We have great fun...but I got the urge to do something new in wood.
I have an old japanese red oak bokken and it was severely worn out along the mune and ha from many years of training. It also suffered greatly from my early days of chopping and clumsy sparring :blackeye:
This bokken has sentimental value to me, since it was my first, some 20 years ago. So I was thinking of a way to give this piece of 'demolished' wood a new life.
This is what I ended up with from a days work in the 'custom shed' - a new kodachi in tensho/Katori Shinto Ryu style.
I used power tools and all sorts of abrasive paper and finished burnishing the wood grain with a piece of the old tsuka - wood against wood gives a nice even shiny surface. After the final soak in linseed oil I polished the grain with a cotton cloth. Dimensions: 'nakago': 15cm, 'nagasa': 42, 'Motohaba': 4cm, 'motokassane': 2,5cm, 'sakihaba': 3cm, 'sakikassane': 1,8 cm.
I quess all of you gyus have an old bokken laying somewhere in a corner. My hope is that this thread will inspire you to revive your own - in your preferred style and show it :)
I had a day off from the familys low budget holliday at home. We have great fun...but I got the urge to do something new in wood.
I have an old japanese red oak bokken and it was severely worn out along the mune and ha from many years of training. It also suffered greatly from my early days of chopping and clumsy sparring :blackeye:
This bokken has sentimental value to me, since it was my first, some 20 years ago. So I was thinking of a way to give this piece of 'demolished' wood a new life.
This is what I ended up with from a days work in the 'custom shed' - a new kodachi in tensho/Katori Shinto Ryu style.
I used power tools and all sorts of abrasive paper and finished burnishing the wood grain with a piece of the old tsuka - wood against wood gives a nice even shiny surface. After the final soak in linseed oil I polished the grain with a cotton cloth. Dimensions: 'nakago': 15cm, 'nagasa': 42, 'Motohaba': 4cm, 'motokassane': 2,5cm, 'sakihaba': 3cm, 'sakikassane': 1,8 cm.
I quess all of you gyus have an old bokken laying somewhere in a corner. My hope is that this thread will inspire you to revive your own - in your preferred style and show it :)