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Post by randomnobody on Aug 11, 2011 23:15:28 GMT
All you have to do is cut off excess. A short, straight line across the nakago. The nakago should be (relatively) soft metal, and a good file would cut it without issue. Perhaps a hacksaw or other metal saw might be a better option, but failing that, the file. As to the chisel, that's easy. Get one the width of the nakago, line up, and beat it with a hammer a few times. Should bite right through.
Sandpaper isn't a common tool for polishing because it's tedious, rather, it's common because it's easy. Ever seen a proper sword polishing? It takes days to weeks. Starting with coarse sandpaper and working to finer grits takes hours to a day or two.
Remember, the guys who shortened swords in the old days didn't have angle grinders. :roll:
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Post by zentesukenVII on Aug 11, 2011 23:42:24 GMT
I always loved that scene, no matter how ridiculous it is. I'm gonna have to think on this whole thing. ...and maybe swing a really long bokken around a bit haha.
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Aug 12, 2011 0:26:49 GMT
my 36 inch blade version with 10 inch handle is wieldable, but im 6ft, 280ish. any longer and your talking unwieldale with a normal tsuka, and th 12-15 inch tsukas are ridiculous to wield too, hence why i cut mine down in the first place. but a 36-40 inch blade with a 12 inch tsuka is doable.
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 12, 2011 0:50:47 GMT
I used to have a 15" tsuka. Blade was about 28", mind, but I found the tsuka very comfortable. A bit tricky, but some minor adjustments and it was peachy.
Then again, I'm also 6'2"+ so big isn't much of an issue for me.
Anything over 30" definitely needs at least 12" tsuka, over 40" I'd not go under 13". Then again, a "standard" 10" tsuka to me is just unbearably tiny, even on a 28" sword.
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Post by mikejapan on Aug 12, 2011 1:17:09 GMT
15 inch tsuka can be tricky. And i'm not tall... only 5'8 and 185lbs. But for something like Sephiroth's sword you need a long tsuka. Me, I just gave my sword that name because i thought it sounded rather entriguing You might want to lift heavy weights and do high reps. It'll benefit you. And to make the blade you want more accurate. From what I saw on Crisis Core it's a Shobu Zukuri odachi. But in Advent Children. Though, a little hard to tell even with slow motion. It looks a Shinogi Zukuri. Pick which one Michael
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 12, 2011 1:35:43 GMT
Whatever you do, if you make a custom go of it, you'll probably want a high shinogi. Keep the meat in the muddle of the blade for support, but taper that mune down to cut some weight off. This with or without bohi.
I never paid enough attention to the Final Fantasy franchise to take a guess at whether Sephiroth's sword is shinogi or ahobu, but I'd probably go shobu, myself. Many old odachi and nagamaki were, so it just seems to fit better to me.
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Aug 12, 2011 1:42:15 GMT
Actually, in the official art of Sephiroth where he's holding the Masamune, it looks more like a kiriha-zukuri (with the so-called "Americanized" tanto point) with saki-zori. Of course, its shaping seems to change with every incarnation, so it really doesn't matter in the least which style you go for.
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Aug 12, 2011 2:25:28 GMT
i like shinogi for the masamune
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