Soten Tsuba Restoration By Ford Hallam

[Sly]

Hi all.

 

I would like to show you the great work that Ford Hallam did recently on a depatinated tsuba of mine. He managed to restore the nice metalworking of the Soten school.

 

Sly

[Sly]

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[John A Stuart]

Fresh and wonderful. John

[b.hennick]

+1

[Jean]

Well done Ford

[Vermithrax16]

That just does not seem possible! What an amazing job!

[ROKUJURO]

A very good TSUBA that deserved to be restored by a master! Simply amazing!

[Stephen]

Amazing work...before pix?

[TETSUGENDO]

Stephen,

 

I believe photos 1 and 3 are the before shots, presentation does lack clarity.

 

Cheers,

[Stephen]

Ill check on PC looking on cell phone...tks Steven

[Gunome]

Hello,

 

A nice tsuba and a very good result !

congrats

 

Sébastien

[Pete Klein]

Yes - first post pictures alternate before to after.  I didn't see that until Steven mentioned it so thanks much for that.  

 

I agree totally the restoration is excellent.  The brightness of the silver will take care of itself with a bit of time if left to it's own.  

 

Great job Ford!

[Brian]

Excellent restoration!
And a GOOD Soten. Nice to have another example to show people who are looking at the usual poor stuff to compare with.

[Sly]

I missed a bit of time to post the pictures with the appropriate legend (before/after). Sorry for that guys. But most of you got it without any help.

I'll repost an appropriate picture with the comparaison before/after steps in the same photo, so as to be easily comparable from one step to another.

 

And indeed like you Brian I think that this Soten tsuba is a good quality. It's weird that this one has'nt been signed by the metalworker, especially when you see that most of the poor quality soten tsuba are signed (gimei ?).

[Jean]

Generic mei

[zanilu]

Very nice piece and wonderful restoration!

 

My feeling is that this is part of the "large characters Soten". There are very few information about this school. Probably unrelated to two Soten Masters like most of the Soten tsuba we find out there.

 

This is just my two cents feeling and I could be utterly wrong of course.

 

Luca

[vajo]

Very nice piece. I enjoy the pictures. 

[Guido]

My feeling is that this is part of the "large characters Soten".

 

Interesting description, and very fitting (bad pun intented) 

 

I’m not a huge fan of Sōten, but they sometimes did amazing work. This is one of the “large characters” from my collection (tokubetsu hozon):

[vajo]

I love that kind of tsuba very much. 

These are two of my collection.

 

[DaveT]

Nice job Ford!