{"id":588,"date":"2020-07-08T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=588"},"modified":"2020-07-07T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:27:37","slug":"tachi-kake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/tachi-kake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tachi Kake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The tachi<\/em> is a type of Japanese sword that is similar to a katana<\/em>, but it is worn differently, has different fittings, and is usually used as a more of a formal\/ceremonial sword compared to a warrior’s katana<\/em>. I bought a small tachi<\/em> as part of my mission to recreate a full bunkan sokutai<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When not in being worn or in storage, the tachi<\/em> would have been displayed nearby the bearer in a vertical stand called a tachi kake<\/em>. These are readily available to buy, both as new items and antiques, but of course I wanted to make one myself. I was able to settle on a design, and I still have an excess of surplus wood in the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tachi Kake Before Finishing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what it looks like after cutting and shaping, but before finishing. It’s a little easier to see the shapes of the pieces. This is all pine lumber. The upright and the bracket at the top are just 3\/4″ thick cut from 1by. The brace at the bottom of the upright is 1\/2″ thick pine I had around; most of the examples I see online are only 1\/4″ thick. The base is cut from some surplus 2by, to keep it bottom-heavy when unoccupied. The brace is fitted in a slot that I cut all the way through the upright. Tenons at either end of the upright fit into through-mortises for ease of assembly and disassembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All told, this item is about 26 inches tall when fully assembled. The tapering curve on the upright piece is one of my favorite shapes ever. I did almost all of the cutting on the band saw, though, because it made things like this curve so much faster to make. I also used a router to bevel and round over all the edges on all the pieces to give it a softer look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tachi Kake After Finishing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here it is after about a half-dozen coats of black-tinted polyurethane. This stuff makes a good affordable lacquer substitute, and it dries in hours instead of weeks. I sanded the finish between every couple coats, but it still needs some final polishing. I also want to add some embellishment like I did for the kyousoku<\/em> arm rest<\/a>, but that might not happen until autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a better sense of scale, here’s another picture of the tachi kake<\/em> before finishing, with my ko-tachi<\/em> in the stand like it is supposed to be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfinished Tachi Kake with sheathed Tachi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tachi is a type of Japanese sword that is similar to a katana, but it is worn differently, has different fittings, and is usually used as a more of a formal\/ceremonial sword compared to a warrior’s katana. I bought a small tachi as part of my mission to recreate a full bunkan sokutai. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,92,41,3,5,20,31],"tags":[200,217,8,39,36,297,319,318,317,37,23],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-misc","category-miscellany","category-projects","category-sca","category-woodworking-japanese","category-woodworking-projects","tag-finishing","tag-furniture","tag-japanese","tag-joinery","tag-mortises","tag-pine","tag-stand","tag-tachi","tag-tachi-kake","tag-tenons","tag-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}