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C:SI – Chinese Dao Sword III

Filed in C:SI Projects, July 14, 2010, 11:57 pm by Haruko

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C:SI – Chinese Dao Sword II

Filed in C:SI Projects, July 13, 2010, 10:11 pm by Haruko

Progress update.

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C:SI – Chinese Dao Sword

Filed in C:SI Projects, July 12, 2010, 5:27 pm by Haruko

Preliminary stages.

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Katana Part VII

Filed in C:SI Projects, April 9, 2010, 1:19 am by Haruko

Minor tweaks, beauty shot. I keep going back and forth between the Battle Style tsuka maki and the more common design.

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Katana Part V

Filed in C:SI Projects, April 8, 2010, 11:23 am by Haruko

Finished the Menuki. I changed the Ito to a Katate Maki Battle Style wrap. Still haven’t named this sword, which is unusual since I typically do that early on.

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Katana Part IV

Filed in C:SI Projects, , 4:25 am by Haruko

Menuki WIP.

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Katana Part III

Filed in C:SI Projects, April 7, 2010, 10:33 pm by Haruko

More Progress.

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Tsuka Ito Part 2

Filed in C:SI Projects, , 3:39 am by Haruko

Well, after more tinkering here’s what I came up with.
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Tsuka-Ito Testing

Filed in C:SI Projects, April 6, 2010, 12:41 am by Haruko

All of us have been very busy with other projects, but i’ve been squeezing some C:SI stuff in-between. I have been messing with some new techniques for making Ito. One of the most common and reconizeable patterns is the center twist, i’ve been expiermenting with better ways of achieving that effect [...]

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Katana Blade – Finished!

Filed in C:SI Projects, January 19, 2010, 8:30 am by Haruko , ,

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Finished the blade for the new sword today. It’s usually something I do last but I wanted to start fresh with this Katana, so I made a completely new blade from scratch. As mentioned in a previous post, the blade is one piece and all the details [...]