Zanpakuto Tsuba Designs: Pt 10

The Zanpakuto Tsuba Index

The purpose of these drawings is to help swordmakers and propmakers. When it comes to making katana's or zanpakuto's most of the time the tsuba is the most unique part of the sword. The tsuba is what makes the zanpakuto a one of a kind. So I drew up these closely detailed and accurate measurements of these tsuba's. With these tsuba's they act as a reference when your going to attempt to make the sword. If you use a scene from a anime or manga to make use reference for your tsuba, it might be flawed. So I have saved you the trouble and drawn them all out clearly, with measurements so you can print and cut them out.

Kenpachi Zaraki's Tsuba: The key reason why I, along with many other swordmakers cannot make this zanpakuto is becuase of the complexity of this Tsuba design. First its entirely 3D so this part is no longer swordmaking but sculpting. All the notches must line up pricesly on every side of the tsuba. This is by far the hardest tsuba I have ever come across and I doubt I could ever make this cleanly. I actually had trouble drawing this tsuba cleanly let alone attempting to make it.

Yachiru Kusajishi's Tsuba: Well this is a flower tsuba design, cute. Firstly this flower a daisy, is suppose to have 5 equalateral sides however this was VERY HARD to draw. I tried drawing a 5 pointed star and a equalateral pentagon but it was so difficult to achieve the same angle for each 5 of the sides. So I had to settle with one of the petals of this flower tsuba design to be slightly longer then the rest which is aligned with the position of the blade. However this tsuba is pretty simple to do, thoug it is entirely made up of curves.

Important Notes:

. ALL these guards slide into swords with a thicnkess of 5 mm and 30 mm long, there are some exceptions.
.The parrallel lines are the rims of the guards that you cut out of balsa wood and glue onto the main guard.
.Download the full version, then copy and paste it, print it off then cut it out with scissors.
.Once it the paper tsuba is cut out, then draw around it with a pencil on the wood, then cut it out to finish.

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