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Post by Please Delete on Jan 11, 2009 22:10:35 GMT -5
Thought I would share my new toy:  I got it primarily for use with court wear, but I'm very happy with it. Now I just need to find out how to properly tie it on. I've been experimenting, but I'm sure there's something out there to show how to do it properly. -Ii |
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Post by roninpenguin on Jan 14, 2009 23:23:54 GMT -5
Wow. Nice. I could really use something like that for court wear as well. Where did you find it?
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Post by Please Delete on Jan 15, 2009 6:07:53 GMT -5
I picked it up at Shoubudou, on Suidoubashi (second martial arts store as you head up away from the station). It is a great place for budougu if you are in the neighborhood, and they had a few other things I would have liked (I couldn't justify spending the money I wanted on a longer iaitou... but this worked out just fine). The weight is surprising, as I figured it would just be one of the light, whippy pieces, but it has a real heft to it. Not sure I care about the two metal aglets(sp?) on the ends of the leather cord hanging off of the kashira--I may try to change that out for some kind of braided himo, as the aglets keep hitting me as I walk (they aren't light) and the cords don't seem quite as long as they should be.
The tsuba is also so-so, but I'm not going to complain. Finding a tachi with a decent tsuka is difficult enough (although you can see they cheated and the menuki are actually just applied on, while there is a black mekugi holding it on).
-Ii
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Post by Yamamori on Jan 21, 2009 16:34:48 GMT -5
This looks very nice, Ii-dono.
I look forward to seeing it when you move back to Atlantia. How do you find the draw? Do you think you could cut effectively from the draw?
Yamamori
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Post by Please Delete on Jan 23, 2009 21:55:16 GMT -5
I'm still playing around with it. When worn, it doesn't have the same range of motion as an uchigatana, due to the ashi (I can easily rotate a katana 180 degrees in the belt, but not the tachi). It also hangs lower, which is an interesting feel. My biggest worry is how to draw without cutting into the saya (this has no edge, but when doing anything like this you always treat it as if the edge actually were there).
I found a website on how to wear it, which has helped. Very different feel. One thing of interest--when bending over, it has more give, so is more likely to stay horizontal and not fall out of the saya.
As a final note on cutting, I feel it can be done, but, like all things, requires practice.
-Ii
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Post by Razaredge on Jun 23, 2009 18:12:11 GMT -5
Ii Katsumori, do you have a link to the website on how to wear the tachi?
thanks
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Post by Yamanouchi Eidou on Jun 24, 2009 0:05:42 GMT -5
Are you still drawing it blade up?
I'd read somewhere that the tachi is generally draw blade down. Also, when drawing a tachi, you actually grab the scabbard and lift it to drawing level. This difficulty in doing so was one of the reasons for the development of the katana in the obi.
I imagine you may well know this already, but if you didn't I thought it might be helpful.
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Post by magnus on Jun 24, 2009 1:22:36 GMT -5
The katana edge up in the obi was developed as more samurai became footman....tachi and katana being drawn from horseback edge down is not difficult given body position. =)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 13:20:45 GMT -5
This one is more of a ko-tachi, but I thought I would hijack Ii-shi-i-dono's thread since I bought this one for basically the same purpose he bought his ten years ago: complete a garb project.  I saw this offering while searching around for a tachi, and really liked the look they'd put together. There are few very nice reviews of the vendor, Sinosword (JKOO), around the net, so I decided to just order and hope. It took about a month from ordering to receiving, which is pretty good. The sword itself is weighty and feels substantial. I have not removed the tsuka to see what the tang looks like. The blade is not super sharp, and I will probably not sharpen it. The hamon is supposedly real clay tempering. I don't have any reason to doubt them, but I don't know how to separate real from good fake. You can see a little bit of the hamon in the photo. It's interesting, but not stunning. I wiped off all the oil that shipped on it, gave it a light polish, and re-oiled it for this photo. The sageo is leather cord, but I probably would have replaced this no matter what, so no big deal. The samegawa is "panel" (as advertised) and not a full wrap. At some point, I may remove the ito, re-skin the tsuka, and re-wrap, but I would not expect to see that soon" if I were you. I probably have placed a custom order if I absolutely wanted a full wrap. The furniture is attractive, but they decided to go with the "antiqued" look that people expect rather than the "shiny and fancy" look that would be better for SCA use. There's copper seppa where a seppa should be, and a somewhat fancy brass habaki where a habaki should be. Overall, I would say I am happy.I paid about $400 total, to get a decent looking sword for my court garb in about a month with zero trouble from the vendor. Sometimes ordering from the other side of the world you have no idea what will happen, but this was smooth. |
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Post by thomas on Feb 17, 2019 2:22:12 GMT -5
This one is more of a ko-tachi, but I thought I would hijack Ii-shi-i-dono's thread since I bought this one for basically the same purpose he bought his ten years ago: complete a garb project. I saw this offering while searching around for a tachi, and really liked the look they'd put together. There are few very nice reviews of the vendor, Sinosword (JKOO), around the net, so I decided to just order and hope. It took about a month from ordering to receiving, which is pretty good. The sword itself is weighty and feels substantial. I have not removed the tsuka to see what the tang looks like. The blade is not super sharp, and I will probably not sharpen it. The hamon is supposedly real clay tempering. I don't have any reason to doubt them, but I don't know how to separate real from good fake. You can see a little bit of the hamon in the photo. It's interesting, but not stunning. I wiped off all the oil that shipped on it, gave it a light polish, and re-oiled it for this photo. The sageo is leather cord, but I probably would have replaced this no matter what, so no big deal. The samegawa is "panel" (as advertised) and not a full wrap. At some point, I may remove the ito, re-skin the tsuka, and re-wrap, but I would not expect to see that soon" if I were you. I probably have placed a custom order if I absolutely wanted a full wrap. The furniture is attractive, but they decided to go with the "antiqued" look that people expect rather than the "shiny and fancy" look that would be better for SCA use. There's copper seppa where a seppa should be, and a somewhat fancy brass habaki where a habaki should be. Overall, I would say I am happy.I paid about $400 total, to get a decent looking sword for my court garb in about a month with zero trouble from the vendor. Sometimes ordering from the other side of the world you have no idea what will happen, but this was smooth. The Position of the ashi is wrong. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2019 11:53:57 GMT -5
The Position of the ashi is wrong. Some more detail on that would be helpful, please. The current position is about right for a horizontal hang, given the balance of this sword. If you're saying the ashi should be closer to the mouth of the saya, this would indicate that the tang isn't long enough, which seems likely. It's also not curved enough, in my aesthetic opinion. I can reposition the ashi, but that would throw off the balance of the hang. Which is more important? |
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