Finish

Kaji push

By the Kaji push , I revise the curve condition of the sword which terminated quenching, and a swordmaker does barbarity. I perform the last adjustment while checking a close wound and condition with a thing of meat, the figure of the ground blade at this time.


Stem sewing

The stem (a basket) fixes the form with 銑 and a file and can open a rivet of a gun stock hole to use when I have a handle (つか) more than 2 in the case of a sword for 1, quick draws of the sword generally. I add swordmaker original file eyes (a file, safeguard purpose) to this back.


I rake an eaves trough

I put the thing installing an eaves trough (ひ) here.


A groundwork sharpener

I polish metal and a blade crest in a whetstone by the groundwork grind (したじとぎ) mainly.


Signature carving
The swordmaker uses the chisel (a graver) last and cuts a signature to a stem by own name or a place of residence, the production year. It cuts a swordmaker name and a place of residence on a list (when I wore a sword and a sword, plane becoming it outward), and I tend to cut the production year or the owner name on the back, but there is generally the exceptions such as engravings on the reverse side of the sword blade or bearing no signature.

I finish it and polish it
I finish it and polish it and polish metal and a blade crest in (I do it and polish it) and process a mirror side with a polishing stick. "なるめ" processes a hat.

One way of work that a swordmaker performs is over, and I perform the last grind, but it is said from now on by a polisher of swords when I performed the swordmaker oneself abrasion before the Muromachi era. Japanese sword abrasion is to put a sharpener for the whole sword blade without only in the point where the principal objective has that I draw the aesthetic element of the Japanese sword as the industrial art object, blade region while premising the sharpness as the knife for a point doing other knife sharpeners and considerable difference. I will make the sheath which balanced with the sword by Rev. sheath. The Japanese sword is completed by craftsmen such as a polisher of swords and Rev. sheath, a japanner, Rev. lacquer work, Rev. metalworking, the Rev. silver not the thing which only a swordmaker makes for the first time.