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Post by Sam H on Jan 31, 2011 13:10:29 GMT
[quote="Mad Hax"I rent and the owners semprini bout my neighbor growing it. Someday hopefully :cry: [/quote]
I understand exactly your situation. I'm in the same position myself. How I do miss my bamboo grove.
Now on a slightly more devious side of things you could always just plant some bamboo in public land and let it grow wild. If the climatic conditions are right bamboo is nearly impossible to kill off without some pretty drastic methods being used. In that case you could just return to the "wild" grove and harvest from it year after year. Of course I could see several downfalls to this idea (the least of which being the chance of a ticket). Your choice there bud. Personally if the climate I lived in were conducive to growing a running type bamboo that would grow to a good cutting size I'd do it but well that's me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2011 22:17:18 GMT
I understand exactly your situation. I'm in the same position myself. How I do miss my bamboo grove.
Now on a slightly more devious side of things you could always just plant some bamboo in public land and let it grow wild. If the climatic conditions are right bamboo is nearly impossible to kill off without some pretty drastic methods being used. In that case you could just return to the "wild" grove and harvest from it year after year. Of course I could see several downfalls to this idea (the least of which being the chance of a ticket). Your choice there bud. Personally if the climate I lived in were conducive to growing a running type bamboo that would grow to a good cutting size I'd do it but well that's me.[/quote]
Yes guerrilla gardening had crossed my mind but the thought of releasing an evasive species into the wild with out knowing the ecological effects sounds like a bad idea.
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Post by Sam H on Feb 1, 2011 0:14:51 GMT
There used to be a cold hardy variety of bamboo that grew in the northern regions of the US till it was eliminated from most wild areas with extreme prejudice by people who considered it a weed. As such consider it more of a re-introduction of a species that had been driven out of existence in this part of the world. I suppose though that the government would disapprove of that happening. Hmm... maybe I'd do it anyway just for that effect! lol
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2011 2:21:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2011 1:26:35 GMT
Is there any post about how to sharp ur blades on a sharping stone?... Or do you only use sand papers
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Post by Sam H on Feb 2, 2011 2:14:07 GMT
If you use stones its pretty time consuming and difficult. You'll have to make sure you sharpen each part of the blade exactly like the other parts you've sharpened. Its easier with sand paper because the paper can be wider than a stone and you can be a little more precise with it.
I'd advise looking up hybrid polishing for katana.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2011 11:03:48 GMT
I live in Portland and I've seen alot of bamboo by some off to the side rivers, but nothing fatter than 1" , maybe 2" at most. Seems common enough though, re introduction sounds fine. How much is bamboo? Do you buy it by the lbs?
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Post by Sam H on Aug 20, 2011 13:53:07 GMT
If you can get bamboo growing wild a 1 to 2 in. culm is perfect for cutting. Just take a good sharp hatchet out to the patch and cut it as close to the base of the culm as you can. Its a bit softer there and easier to cut with a hatchet or knife than it is higher up.
I don't buy bamboo - too cost prohibitive after shipping and frankly its rarely ever "green" when it arrives. I'll just have to wait till I get to a locale that has bamboo growing wild so I can harvest it myself - or wait till I can grow my own bamboo. In that case you buy the bamboo per container and its not cheap after shipping.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2011 8:00:10 GMT
But is it safe to polish/ high grit sand a sword that has etchings/engravings in them? Can a beautiful shine be achieved?
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Post by Jakeonthekob on Sept 5, 2011 8:54:03 GMT
For polishing engravings/horimono I believe the traditional way is to use charcoal and rub it in. You may be able to also take a cloth with mothers mag or some other sort of metal polish applied to a cloth and try to polish it up that way.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 5:43:25 GMT
I heard Mother's might be a little too abrasive. I have a Metal Glo Magic Cloth, but a little fearful of letting it touch the blade. I just ordered some Ren Wax micro polish... I really like the charcoal option, have you used this method just "rub it in"?
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Post by Jakeonthekob on Sept 6, 2011 7:15:59 GMT
No because I don't own any katana with legit horimono. However if you look on youtube, you can see artisans who polish out and clean engravings on tsuba/menuki/etc using charcoal. They take a solid piece of charcoal and rub it into the negative space. I honestly don't think that mothers or equivalent metal polisher is too abrasive. You're not exactly cleaning out the engravings monthly.
Here are some videos showing the charcoal method-
Skip to about 14:15. It may be that he was darkening parts of the negative space but it seems that he is also refining it a little as well by using the charcoal. I may be wrong though XD.
Skip to 20:00.
Dunno if I'm totally correct but it sure looks like they're doing some sort of refining.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 22:26:52 GMT
Thanks onthekob Yeah that really seemed to do the trick, I might give it a try a little down the line, after I'm done babying my sword for a while.
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Post by Jakeonthekob on Sept 8, 2011 1:28:09 GMT
NP man. We all learn by asking questions and researching XD
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2011 10:27:34 GMT
I was just wondering if I could protect the etchings in the fuller with an application of Renaissance Wax in the fuller ONLY, or just in the etchings. Continuing regular treatments with Singer Sewing machine oil. Will the oil and wax work together in this way, or will removal/re-apply be needed on the wax? After cutting:?:
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