[Patrick Hastings]

ford hallam, on Jun 7 2007, 10:46 AM, said:

Hi gang

I'm still working on getting all the ( clearly focussed! ) images and details of chisels together but in the meantime I thought you might be interested to see these 2 views of the angle of cutting using a 'V' shaped kebori chisel. It's moved with a hammer. I'd previously said there were no heels on this chisel, sorry!, I lied I didn't think of it but there is a sleight heel on this one. The next batch of images will reveal all. Also, do you think the black and white images are sufficient? I though they'd make a relief from all the full colour we're constantly exposed to.
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regards, Ford

I like the black and white. It reduces file size without the loss of detail and has nice look and feel about it when depicting raw metals. A thought, the chisel and the base metal blend too well in Black and white. If you don't know what your looking at it might be slightly confusing. In the lower photo you might communicate more by moving the chisel tip out of the cut and letting it rest on the surface next the bur. But still have it propped up at the correct orientation for making the cut.
Patrick

[Greg Obach]

thank you for showing
these pictures are a work of art in its self..



Greg

[remo]

Hi ,

can you talk the basic size of the chisels, for buy the bars ex: 6"long for 1/2 ,

I can try make inaly silver on iron tsuba in simple lines to beginer,

Thanks again,

Remo

[Janel]

Quite a change in looks! The chisel looks like a warm colored metal, so to see what could happen, I put a photo into Photoshop and used the gray eyedropper to change the white balance to make the gray gray, and found a real flesh color on your finger that way, and differentiated the metals one from another. It also made the metal disk turn from gold into copper. That was a great reduction in $$ for the raw material, at a click of the finger!

Lighting and white balance settings, between sources, fluorescent, incandescent, daylight infiltration... tricky and confusing stuff for the Photography area. Here is an excerpt of the above color image after WB adjustment. Is this closer to the real thing?

edited color balance further:


P.S. I have fun trying to imagine how you take the photo while your hands on tools! I use that two section Nikon Coolpix 4500, which is really handy for such "self portraits", since the display can rotate to a viewing position. Strange little beast, but a great little photo tool.

[Janel]

I pushed the color balance a little further in the above post. I don't know what I am aiming for, but yellower, not pinker helped. Now if we all had the same monitors, we would have something we could count on for stable color representation!

[DanM]

Hi Ford,

I still have the wire inlay project in the works when i can find time to work on it. i have a bunch of O-1 drill rod to make the tools now and need to decide how the cutting point needs to be shaped. then a bit of practice time with the tools before starting on the tsuba.here is a photo of the base tsuba,it will be 3.25 inches in diameter.

[Jeff Pringle]

Which chisel shape is used for katakiri-bori?
The descriptions I've read seem to imply it's the V-bottom one as above, but that shape does not seem ideal for very fine lines or very broad, even when keeled over...i.e. great mid-range but little top or bottom end control - is it just that different size tools are required even within one katakiri 'drawing?' Somehow that seems unlikely...

[Patrick Hastings]

Jeff Pringle, on Jun 9 2007, 10:54 AM, said:

Which chisel shape is used for katakiri-bori?
The descriptions I've read seem to imply it's the V-bottom one as above, but that shape does not seem ideal for very fine lines or very broad, even when keeled over...i.e. great mid-range but little top or bottom end control - is it just that different size tools are required even within one katakiri 'drawing?' Somehow that seems unlikely...

Kata kiri bori Uses a flat chisel tilted to one side. The depth and angle of the cut changes the width of the line. I am sure Ford will go over this one in detail at some point.
Patrick

[Karl Carvalho]

Aloha Ford,

Apologies for not acknowledging what you are doing here. (Another) belated thanks. Metalwork is pulling me in all directions!
Just a note that Jim posted a diagram of chisels a while back in reference to engraving. I'm guessing from TUFA?

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Karl

[Jeff Pringle]

I'm familiar with TUFA from desert hikes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufa

That chisel makes much more sense, short face up while in use?
Many thanks!