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The original blade collar of the Practical Katana is made of solid brass. It is one-piece, plain and without any decoration. |
You can see on this paper template how the cover should look like. Actually such a template is not necessary, because anyway the stripe should be made wider for the time beeing. |
Material for the cover is 0,2 mm brass sheet. |
The stripe is bent around the lower edge (Ha side) and the upper side edges of the Habaki. The joint is on the upper edge (Ha side). |
Here you can see how the cover should fit the Habaki. |
The cover is fixed with wire to close the joint for soldering. |
I have put some swarf of soldering metal inside the cover and held it into a blow torch flame. |
Now the casing has to be customized that it covers only the backside of the Habaki and leaves the frontside blank. |
The cover should fit the Habaki tightly. In this picture the overlapping part is bent around the bottom of the Habaki. |
The finished Habaki |
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