September 5, 2015 09:12:05 PM
Posted By Thomas L. Buck
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Occasionally I have the opportunity to convert a Showa era shin-gunto tsuka into an older, more traditional style. Here is one example. Earlier this year I took a tsuka much like the one pictured above, and modified it by moving the rayskin's large nodes to the opposite side, inserting a wooden shim to fill the gap cut for the spring, then fitted and wrapped it with handachi style gold mounts. Below is the finished project:
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