WOODWORKING
For almost 20 years now I've been making wooden swords for my
martial arts, I'm still making them but I'm a little better at it now.
I've also got some nicer toys than when I started. I am quite willing to
make just about any wooden weapon or wooden part for a weapon that you
might need. I have recently been making weapons racks too. I've
also done quite a few pieces of furniture, cabinets and beds
seem to be my specialty. Another line of investigation has been "quilted
canes", walking sticks and staffs made of various scraps of wood glued
up much like you might sew up a patchwork quilt.
Although I'm quite happy to sell my wares, I am not in the woodworking
business, so my prices reflect the time the hobby takes away from my family.
You can get more information on the wooden weapons by looking at the Sei
Do Kai catalogue.
These are some of the bokuto, Japanese swords I have made lately, The
top one is a suburito of maple, the second is cocobolo, next is tulipwood,
then a bloodwood, and finally an Indonesian rosewood.
SPECIAL ORDERS
Here was an interesting project, a 5'5" LOA nodachi of hickory with
a bloodwood tsuba. That's the sword, the thing it's sitting on is a shaving
bench.
WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE?
For information and photos on woods (don't trust the hardness scales) you
can go to a searchable database at woodworker's
source.
WOODWORKING PROJECTS If you're interested
in making your own practice weapon you might want to try one of these projects.
There is some discussion of wood in the catalogue,
and some in the bokuto
project, you might want to look there before you go out and find the local
lumber yard.
Selecting and
Making a Bokuto
Making a Bo
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Last Updated Aug 9, 2000 by Kim
Taylor