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**FliveGell** · 01-14-2010, 12:29 AM

What you can do is get some tsuka-ito off ebay or so, shouldn't cost you more than 20$ at most, and then wrap your bokuto's handle the same way a sword is. It isn't too difficult, it's quite fun, and the final result looks spectacular.

You make it sound so easy..... I have a hard time tieing my obi, I may have to velcro it together. I can't imagine how long it would take to finish off the tie to my satisfaction. I have never seen that in Japan, was curious why someone doesn't sell them. On occasion I have seen non-slip tape on bokken used in various koryu that aren't interested in 'pretty'.

I'm with Bruce. I've always used beeswax and orange oil on my bokken. Well, on the ones that I've bothered to worry about putting anything on. Might I suggest perhaps working harder on your tenouchi and shibori as a way to prevent slipping?

Suggest away, as long as you don't send a bill afterwards.

That's not the issue. Sometimes when my training partner Lurch powers into my bokken with his jo I wish I had a safety strap on the thing to keep it from rocketing away. But I may settle for beeswax, it's probably softer than the candlewax, may well do the trick.

01-14-2010, 12:29 AM	#9
FliveGell Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 401 Senior Member	What you can do is get some tsuka-ito off ebay or so, shouldn't cost you more than 20$ at most, and then wrap your bokuto's handle the same way a sword is. It isn't too difficult, it's quite fun, and the final result looks spectacular. You make it sound so easy..... I have a hard time tieing my obi, I may have to velcro it together. I can't imagine how long it would take to finish off the tie to my satisfaction. I have never seen that in Japan, was curious why someone doesn't sell them. On occasion I have seen non-slip tape on bokken used in various koryu that aren't interested in 'pretty'. I'm with Bruce. I've always used beeswax and orange oil on my bokken. Well, on the ones that I've bothered to worry about putting anything on. Might I suggest perhaps working harder on your tenouchi and shibori as a way to prevent slipping? Suggest away, as long as you don't send a bill afterwards. That's not the issue. Sometimes when my training partner Lurch powers into my bokken with his jo I wish I had a safety strap on the thing to keep it from rocketing away. But I may settle for beeswax, it's probably softer than the candlewax, may well do the trick.
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