Prosthetic Conscience

Progress on wasters

A waster is a wooden sword used for training in sword fighting. Most people are probably more familiar with the bokken, a Japanese wooden training sword, than with its European equivalent, probably because the Japanese martial arts survived into the modern era uninterrupted, unlike the Western Martial Arts.

In spare moments (not many of those lately), I’ve been working on a bokken and a longsword waster. The bokken is just about finished – I just need to go back over some imperfections to try to clean them up, sand again with the coarse, medium, fine, and extra-fine sandpaper, and oil it. But the shaping is finished, anyway. I’ve started the rough shaping on one edge of the longsword waster. The longsword waster is the more difficult project, because it has a more complex shape, and I’m also going to have to do the cross separately and attach it. I need more tools.

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