Wedding Gift

 We were recently were asked to produce a "Mutal Love" nafudakake as a wedding gift from a dojo to a club instructor. To make it special we made it a little different from previous commissions.

The couple both had short Christian names so we elected to use Christian names only instead of their full names. This allows for the font to be larger and fill the nafuda, we also used a "brush" style script for the katakana for Sarah's and Eddie's names.

Although Maple, Sycamore and Oak are the most popular hardwoods selected across our full range we went with an American Cherry for this particular project.  Point to note - As you would expect all our hardwood stocks come from sustainable sources.

The cherry was sawn, planned and sanded, it received a couple of coats of sanding sealer and then the nafuda were French polished to bring out the gorgeous grain patterns.

We used the every popular black framing and I am sure you will agree this is a striking contrast to the Cherry.

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Legend of Zelda - Custom Plaque

Well, we always like a bit of custom, but we have never done anything like this before.

We were asked if we could produce a plaque for a home dojo with a "Legend of Zelda" twist.

Our client sent us some artwork with a rough layout using the triangular theme and kanji from Legend of Zelda and wanted to add Fuji San in the centre triangle.

Legend of Zelda custom plaque

The layout in the graphics package was a bit of a challenge as items look better placed by eye rather than what would be central to their individual triangle. Again we used the maple backing board with black frame which allows a strong contrast for the graphic.

We don't often post pictures of the reverse side, but thought you might be interested in how the frames are finished. All our frames are glued and underpinned in the corners, the maple board is retained by flat tabs and a framers tape is used to seal the frame. Smaller plaques like this are prepared as for picture hanging. Bigger plaques and dojo name boards are usually supplied with mirror plates.

Current costings can be found in the relevant shop page please click on the button below to view.

Custom plaques are charged at a rate depending on size and amount of graphic design required.

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