As you scroll down,
you will view the earlier stages at the bottom, until communication has been fully
adjusted to what I had in mind. A very interesting way of working
together.
I consider the rendering
finished for this first sword project. The samé is perfectly rendered
as well as all surfaces and now you leave me with the embarassment of
choosing between the two tsubas. That is a good embarrasment though.
Excellent.
Only thing missing is correcting the tsuba bevel. 3/5 should be
main edge and 1/5 should be each side's bevel. This will allow for
a comparison to this also nice tsuba. I can see the black seppa
there. Great.
The tsuba is too
large. It should be almost an aikuchi. It cannot be totally,
because the tanto's blade is too long for an aikuchi at almost
12 inches. So the tsuba should follow the saya shape as well as being
3mm away from the black seppa. Also note that there are some
disturbances in the silver parts such as the kurikata and the
tsuna-kuchi. And I can also see some unwanted reflections in the
tsuba. Got to get rid of them.
