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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2007 19:05:46 GMT
I'm trying out different things with saya painting before giving my tiger daisho a facelift, so this is the new (and improved ?) PPK saya. Pics taken in full sunlight, so it looks a bit lighter than it is. It's a maroon basecoat on which I sprayed a special marble-effect paint. Then a lot - 20 or more coats - of clear lacquer. Sanding between layers to smoothen things out. The problen here, was that the marble-stuff comes out in a pretty thick layer, so for every two layers of clear, i sanded it down as far as I dared. I did ruin one paintjob just like this one, by sanding too deep. That was one weeks work waisted So what you see is the second try. The kurikata, kojiri and koiguchi are all real horn, so I left them in their naturel color. I like that a lot better than just painting over them. Takes a little paitience with the masking tape, but i think it's worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2007 20:25:06 GMT
Mighty fine work sir.
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For clarification, the marble-effect paint was over the maroon? I only ask this because some of the faux finishes available are a three step process. For example, a crackled finish would use a black base followed by the special crackle coat. The third coat would be a contrasting color that would "crackle" or glob together showing the black in some areas.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2007 20:35:07 GMT
are you planning on changing the tsukaito as well?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2007 21:23:12 GMT
That is one cool looking saya! Nice work!
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Post by tajima on Jul 16, 2007 21:35:04 GMT
Looks great, @ j I think it needs a nice red-black speckle ito now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2007 6:26:07 GMT
Yes. The maroon is simply the darkest carpaint I could get. The marble is a speciel effect-paint that sprays out a totally uncontrolable "net" of paint. It's made by a german company, called Dupli-color. It's surposed to copy the look of marble on any surface you want, but as some areas get quite thick, I'd only use it on vases and such. The clear coats wouldn't be needed on such items either. So it's not a special three step process here - simply the colors and finish I've chosen. I did that a long time ago. The sword is now known as the " Practical Frankenstein " ;D This is because I decided to make it a little different than normal, so I hunted down a lot of Hanwei "spareparts" for it. Here's a list from memory: Tiger F/K Bushido tsuba W&T menuki Shinto seppa (changed to goldplated) PPK blade + tsuka Then I changed the same' to some really nice stuff too. The ito is golden yellow, which won't work with the new saya color so I'll change it again. I just bought some PC Orchid menuki which will be used under the new wrap. I consider using ivory colored silk. This what it looks like right now:
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