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Goldsmith
19-10-2015, 01:34 PM
Check out this 12 minute video of Ford Hallam making a Tsuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhWh19fTG4

James

metalsmith
19-10-2015, 08:36 PM
Check out this 12 minute video of Ford Hallam making a Tsuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhWh19fTG4

James

That's amazing!

TeeDee
20-10-2015, 08:32 AM
I was was spellbound watching this. Apart from the optical instruments hardly any use of high tech tooling.
I have to confess I needed to look up what a Tsuba was.
What was the metal that he cast in what I assume was water that formed the initial disc Was it a type of bronze?

ps_bond
20-10-2015, 08:40 AM
Much of Ford's ethos is to stick to traditional tools wherever possible - so few power tools, traditional tagane (chisels), abrasives etc.
It may have been copper, might be shibuichi; I'll find out.

Sent him a batch of finely-ground malachite last week for patination experiments :)

trialuser
20-10-2015, 08:48 AM
The workmanship was fantastic, the arty farty editing had me squirming in my seat.
Another clip of water casting copper and shibuichi here here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sJl3PFsmZk), there's quite a lot on youtube.

ps_bond
20-10-2015, 08:52 AM
The workmanship was fantastic, the arty farty editing had me squirming in my seat.

It's been done for a different audience.


Another clip of water casting copper and shibuichi here here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sJl3PFsmZk), there's quite a lot on youtube.

...Almost all Ford.

trialuser
20-10-2015, 10:05 AM
[QUOTE=ps_bond;82947]It's been done for a different audience.

:-) yes, more sophisticated than me :-)

metalsmith
20-10-2015, 01:07 PM
Sent him a batch of finely-ground malachite last week for patination experiments :)

I'm sure you took good care with this - malachite dust is pretty toxic, for general info...=:-O

ps_bond
20-10-2015, 01:11 PM
Wet ground & (I wore) a full face respirator, worksurface washed down afterwards. Sludge evaporated to dry.
All rock dust is nasty to varying extents.