Ooh! If you want to try something fun, turn the tsukigata into horns. First steps into a metal shamisen! (at least, visually)
That would be awesome! If I was better at carving then I would carve the top of the tenjin to look like an ONI face!
The only thing I was diasappointed about with the tsukugata is that I wanted to get one of those fancy covers for it like the dou kake (sorry, canāt remember the name) and Iām
not sure if it will fit now.
If it doesnt fit then I can always make one bespoke for mine using the dou kake method from Shamisen of Japan.
Finally got everything finished and applied a couple layers of tung oil. Now I just have to wait for my skins to come in the mail and order some strings, bachi, koma, etc.
Apparently my hastily made sword stand makes a good shamisen stand as well
Hooray! My first kawahari! I was planning on using the traditional kisen but I was convinced there was a simpler (and lazier) way. I got $20 worth of oak, poplar, and hardware and spend an evening assembling my shami-skinner. It was surprisingly quick and easy to use despite being so questionably built. Iām still not sure exactly how well the final result turned out as I have never seen a professional shamisen in person. The skin is extremely tight and hard with a very crisp ātinnyā sound to it.
A note to Kyle: in your next copy of āShamisen of Japanā you might want to point out how unbelievably difficult the mochiko can be to remove from fingers, kitchen utensils, tools, pets, etc. I am going to have nightmares tonight about being attacked by a giant mutated ball of mochi!
I just sent your pictures to Taichi san. Iām sure itāll warm his heart to see.
A note to Kyle: in your next copy of āShamisen of Japanā you might want to point out how unbelievably difficult the mochiko can be to remove from fingers, kitchen utensils, tools, pets, etc.
A note to Kyle: in your next copy of āShamisen of Japanā you might want to point out how unbelievably difficult the mochiko can be to remove from fingers, kitchen utensils, tools, pets, etc.
Ah, but why spoil the surprise?
Kyle! Donāt blame him You started spoiling on Blogcast number 12,when you said ākeep it on the tip so your hands donāt get all stickyā
Yeah I tried to keep it on the tip but it was all futile. The glue inevitably ended up everywhere. I just managed to clean up the last of it this afternoon (lots of wiping stuff down with damp paper towels)
(at least, visually)
