New f & K, please help.

Hi Gang,

I took some new pics of the nice fittings I picked up this winter.

Just wondering if anyone had any idea of the school. They were found with a nice Hamano tsuba, that wasn't a very good match.

I believe they are Shakudo, inlayed with silver, gold, copper, maybe shibuichi, and perhaps more.

The detail is very nice to my eyes. Great depth in the carving work.

Here are the new pics, any thoughts would be welcome.

Wow mark you did a great job zooming in on these!

Hi Mark - Great photos! I love the detail. Sorry I cannot be of any help in answering your questions but I sure enjoyed the pics!

Charlie Brashear

Soten?

Was thinking the same thing. Fairly average Soten work.

Brian

Might be Kaga takabori as well. John

Hi Mark, Nice pictures! Could you give a quick rundown on how you made them?

ie which settings-macro,supermacro, Distance ,lighting, moonphase and the like?

Hard as I try , I cant get close to those.

Thanks,

PeterD

Hi Guys,

thanks for the help.

As for the pics, thanks for that too. I'm getting better at it. I take a lot of close up shots of my tsuba work. I guess like anything, practice is the key.

I took these with my Sony Cyber-shot. 8.1 mp, on the closeup shot setting on auto. With no flash. I never use a flash for anything. I took these under a halogen light of about 50w. That is why the color is off on some. I usualy shoot under my art lamp, with a 75w bulb, or natural filtered sunlight I feel is best for tsuba.

I just get the cam very close, and let the auto focus do it's thing. Holding it steady is the key. A tripod works well for this, but for me, it is a pain in the butt to set up, so I usual just wing it.

The new cams are just so great. I use mine a lot Just ask the guys over on the Iron brush.

Mark G