Check out this 12 minute video of Ford Hallam making a Tsuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhWh19fTG4
James
Check out this 12 minute video of Ford Hallam making a Tsuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhWh19fTG4
James
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?
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
The workmanship was fantastic, the arty farty editing had me squirming in my seat.
Another clip of water casting copper and shibuichi here here, there's quite a lot on youtube.
It's been done for a different audience.
...Almost all Ford.Another clip of water casting copper and shibuichi here here, there's quite a lot on youtube.
[QUOTE=ps_bond;82947]It's been done for a different audience.
:-) yes, more sophisticated than me :-)
Wet ground & (I wore) a full face respirator, worksurface washed down afterwards. Sludge evaporated to dry.
All rock dust is nasty to varying extents.
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