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Post by Kuya on Aug 30, 2012 3:54:00 GMT
I've seen this done before on some swords. Is the blade/nakago hole on a tanto tsuba big enough to fit a katana's nakago in it, or do they grind out parts of it and mess with its "structural integrity?"
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Post by Unit731 on Aug 30, 2012 4:04:02 GMT
With a small file (or maybe even a jewlers hacksaw) you could remove material on the tanto tsuba to make way for the tang of your Katana blade. I often thought about this sort of modification too. I think it would make a Katana more... Streamline... Of course you could always file/cut a Katana tsuba down to fit a full sized Katana.
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Aug 30, 2012 4:23:11 GMT
Do you mean something along these lines? I believe that the style is referred to as being Aikuchi. I haven't found a vendor that sells them for katana. I believe that most people use either a coping saw, jewelers hacksaw or some jewelers files to widen a tanto tsuba.
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Post by Kuya on Aug 30, 2012 4:39:15 GMT
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Post by Elheru Aran on Aug 30, 2012 4:41:50 GMT
I think you can find aikuchi tsukas some places, but don't take my word for it. It will definitely take a good bit of work to widen the hole for the tang. Tantos are skinnier than kats when it comes to the tang, trust me...
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Post by Kuya on Aug 30, 2012 5:50:24 GMT
So is it the "thickness" of the hole, or also the height/width ("vertical") part that generally needs to be ground out? Also, would tanto/aikuchi fittings work easier on a wakizashi? I've never disassembled a wakizashi, so I don't know the general thickness and width of their nakagos.
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Post by Elheru Aran on Aug 30, 2012 14:25:00 GMT
Both thickness and height would need to be ground out.
Tanto tsuba might work easier on a wak than a kat; what matters is the size of the tsuka, as you obviously don't want a tsuka bigger than your tsuba!
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Post by Jussi Ekholm on Aug 30, 2012 20:58:16 GMT
That style of koshirae is hamidashi.
Aikuchi koshirae is without tsuba.
Both of these styles are rare in daito length blades, although there are few historical examples. Most commonly these styles are seen in tanto.
I think it's fairly easy to make one of these (plain) yourself if you have some tools and iron plate of good thickness, or modify existing tsuba into a plain hamidashi tsuba.
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