Tsuba book recommendation

[BIG]

Book by NMB member steves87..

 

https://www.instagra...VvOP4zV/?img_index=1

[Spartancrest]

A great collection - I was lucky to get the three versions!  [it pays to be good friends ] 

I recommend the Book. 

[Bugyotsuji]

Three versions? What book?

[Steves87]

Thank you Peter and Dale, it is very kind... I'm generally too shy for such an intimate promotion to a forum such as this.

Piers, I have a "proof" pdf copy I can share with the forum (for a limited time). I'll get on it later today. It is a proof copy and the hard copy has had quite a few things amended in it, so you will pick stuff up.

Shortly after the book became live (Tsuba, the special collection in Rolling Brooks Gallery), someone contacted me and bought up a whole heap of the basic guards (As provenance and publication appears to make low end stuff much more appealing), which allowed me to acquire almost as many, more vastly superior guards. These will eventually go into an updated version (probably), but I have heap more study to do on them first. 

 

If you click my profile in Peter's link, there will be two links to the book sales, just remember I basically have no control on the sales price.

[BIG]

Stephen, dont be to shy. Finally you have to change from Steves87 to ARIEL the air spirit..

[Spartancrest]

These are just sites for the two books that are still available - as Stephen has stated the prices are not in the author's control, so I am sure he won't mind me saying to "shop around" for the titles, you don't have to pay the middlemen top dollar - they don't pass it on to the people who write the books! Spend a little time looking and you will spend less $

 

https://au.blurb.com...y-special-collection

 

https://www.barnesan...83?ean=9798881366865

 

https://www.amazon.c...J-KING/dp/1006317686

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145234176209

 

 

Stephens older book had a thread here: 

 

[Steves87]

You can ignore the first two books, they should not be available at all, and new book is far superior to those.

This is the link to the proof copy of the book: Tsuba, the special collection of Rolling Brooks Gallery https://www.dropbox....j873v4y9ecysnrj&dl=0 Like I have said, there are quite a few amendments in the hardcopy. 

 

[Winchester]

Ordered this and the Sasano book...!

 

Thanks for sharing, Peter, and Stephen for this wonderful contribution to the hobby. Excited to learn more!!!