Drilling, Sawing, Filing

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SteveM
Raw Log Import
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Re: Drilling, Sawing, Filing

Sat Nov 12, 2016 10:43 am

Finished:
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Brian
Deshi
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Re: Drilling, Sawing, Filing

Sat Nov 12, 2016 12:10 pm

Really beautiful work!
SteveM
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Re: Drilling, Sawing, Filing

Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:19 pm

Thank you. It only took me 11 months (lots of interruptions and pausing tho').
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Chris Hall
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Re: Drilling, Sawing, Filing

Sun Nov 13, 2016 4:31 pm

Good job! Is it modeled after an existing example, or style of maker?
SteveM
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Re: Drilling, Sawing, Filing

Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:55 pm

Thanks Chris. I hesitate to say its my own design, because there is obviously very much influence from other tsuba I've seen. But it isn't a copy of an antique (which all of my other "creations" so far have been). The arrangement of the iris is a copy from an antique (a fairly common motif), but the inspiration for the heron against the sun comes from a local artist friend who painted something similar and gave me the idea of using a similar composition. So I've blended the two and as such, its doesn't conform to a particular school, but would just be classified as "sukashi" (open-work) style or technique (used by a great many of the tsuba schools historically). Also, I'm not very accomplished at carving, so the emphasis is on the silhouette rather than surface detail.

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