Tsuba

[2 TEK]

Hi all i have just registerd and am looking forward to speaking to you all. The first question i have is where can i get a clear tsuba for my shini, the only reason i asked was because i had a visitor at my dojo in Bristol and he had one with some amazing design in side the plastic! any ideas?

[Shogun97]

have a look at the internet, i mean google or anything else.
or ask your sensai............. well i don't think they are hard to get.
good luck.

[mystic_kendoka]

the internet is no help, ive been searching for some snazzy tsubas, but all i can find are shinken/iaito tsubas... i havent found any internet shop that sells them either...

[Neil Gendzwill]

See http://www.bogubag.com/Shinai/shinai.html, about the middle of the page. Also, not all tsuba Koei carries are listed there, but you can get them if you just ask. I know you can get clear ones, purple ones and black ones. You can also get various swanky tsuba-dome. The part number for a clear one is 31-182.

[litige]

the internet is no help, ive been searching for some snazzy tsubas, but all i can find are shinken/iaito tsubas... i havent found any internet shop that sells them either...

Have you tried kendoshop?

They have nice ones

[Hai_hai]

Hi all i have just registerd and am looking forward to speaking to you all. The first question i have is where can i get a clear tsuba for my shini, the only reason i asked was because i had a visitor at my dojo in Bristol and he had one with some amazing design in side the plastic! any ideas?

E-mail the Koei people in Japan to send you their Japanese-language catalog. Then, you can order whatever you like from www.bogubag.com.

[2 TEK]

Nice one cheers guys

[mystic_kendoka]

See http://www.bogubag.com/Shinai/shinai.html, about the middle of the page. Also, not all tsuba Koei carries are listed there, but you can get them if you just ask. I know you can get clear ones, purple ones and black ones. You can also get various swanky tsuba-dome. The part number for a clear one is 31-182.

http://www.bogubag.com/Shinai/reamer_L.jpg
wat is this? it says a tsuba reamer, and its $64+25(shipping) !?!

[Neil Gendzwill]

It's a tool for making the hole in the tsuba bigger. The $25 shipping would probably be EMS from Japan, expensive for 1 item. If you ordered it with some other stuff your shipping costs would go down.

[Andoru]

The reamer is especially necessary if you have koban grip shinai and you want the leather tsuba to fit. The basic tsuba does fit at first go though, but I'm not sure if that applies to the clear tsuba.

[Sithlord]

Try the leather handmade tsuba's from e-bogu.com i own one and the designs look very unique and the thick leather looks good on ur shinai. I have the firestorm leather tsuba.

[Neil Gendzwill]

The reamer is especially necessary [snip]

Nah, you can accomplish the same thing with a round wood rasp that you can pick up for $10 from any hardware store.

[mystic_kendoka]

koban grip shinai? oval?

[adfrost]

Speaking of leather tsuba's, other than looking fancy, is there an advantage over an el-cheapo plastic tsuba? I'm talking bokken and shinai here.

[Hai_hai]

Speaking of leather tsuba's, other than looking fancy, is there an advantage over an el-cheapo plastic tsuba? I'm talking bokken and shinai here.

No. As a rich-boy show-off who has bought one for both, a leather tsuba doesn't make a difference. Both weigh the same. Looks good though.