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Post by sluggy on Aug 21, 2007 9:37:10 GMT -5
Oh, I am just full of projects... Here is my nearly complete nodawa made from black barrel plastic and dollar store shoelaces. I used the Yama Kaminari pattern (Thank you!) I apologize for the cruddy cell phone picture taken at my dark desk here at work, but I forgot to take a nicer one at home. What is left to do is to pad the collar and add a buckle and strap. Now that it's nearly done, any critiques or suggestions?  Sluggy!  |
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Post by Katayama Hiromoto on Aug 21, 2007 11:14:26 GMT -5
Dono, Nice job thus far. I would make a couple of suggestions, purely from an aesthetic stand point mind you. 1) You might add an additional lame' to the rear of your nodawa. This will make it look a little more symetrical. 2) You might also add an additional row of odoshi to the rear lame's as well. Again, this will make things look a little more symetrical. 3) If memory serves, mimi ito should run up the outside edge of your lame's. I think... 4) Some nice sort of scalloping along the top edge of each lame' will give them a little more class than they already have. Just a couple of thoughts off the top of my head. Again, nice job. Keep up the good work. Katayama |
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Post by sluggy on Aug 21, 2007 13:00:42 GMT -5
Do you mean that this lace should be closer to the edge of the lame? It would be easy enough to trim the lame a bit narrower without compromising protection... I thought I might add another lame to the back anyway because when it's on, it doesn't cover as well as I prefer. That is due to the build of my shoulders and neck. My lady hates making any garb for me that requires a collar because I am very hard to fit there. |
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Post by roninpenguin on Aug 21, 2007 21:21:44 GMT -5
I, personally, am not a fan of the straight color style of neck protection. When I had neck protection like that it seemed to rub the upper part of my shoulders and felt as though it left my lower neck unprotected. For my last Nodawa I combined my dangly bits with Baron Effingham's guruwa pattern ( sengokudaimyo.com/katchu/graphics/patterns/guruwa.PDF ) and I think that it turned out fairly well and is pretty comfortable. |
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Post by Katayama Hiromoto on Aug 21, 2007 22:25:38 GMT -5
Do you mean that this lace should be closer to the edge of the lame? It would be easy enough to trim the lame a bit narrower without compromising protection... Dono, It appears I didn't make myself quite clear. You don't need to trim anything at the moment. You might however, want to add an additional lace to the outer most sets of chord. Traditionally, to the best of my faded recollection anyway, when armour was laced sugake odoshi, the outside laces were done up in sets of three chords. The outer most chord in that set of three was called mimi ito (ear chord?) and was usually of a contrasting color. For example, if your armour was laced in red, you might have white mimi-ito. Mimi-ito was typically the same colour as For further clarification, you might wander over to Baron Effingham's website www.sengokudaimyo.com. Take a look in the armour construction manual, in the chapter on odoshi. Look at the illustrations regarding sugake odoshi and you will see what I am referring to. Hope this helps. Katayama |
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Post by sluggy on Aug 21, 2007 23:28:23 GMT -5
Between the time I asked my question and saw your above comment, I dug around and found what you meant. Indeed, I continue to refer to His Excellency's amazing site daily. I have even cloned it onto a CD and a memory stick for use offline! I have laces that are red and black varigated, much like the yellow black on the hishinui (of which I suppose I should add a row also) that I think will make very nice mimi ito. I think I will use this one as is, mostly to shake down the fit and proporions, and make another using the suggestions made here. Afterall, I have 4 barrels and 100 Effingham Plates... Sluggy! |
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Post by Katayama Hiromoto on Aug 22, 2007 11:13:41 GMT -5
Dono,
Sounds like you are the right track.
Keep up the good work.
Katayama
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