Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
Many kamisoris have pieces of wood on the sides of the "handle" and then they are wrapped with some string, that way the handle gets all round.
It's usually made to be a perfect place for rust to live in but that's how they did it, have never seen any wax or such used for protection.
If I would wrap one up now I would use wax, lacquer, paint or even epoxy for protection.
If you want something really nice, look at sword handles and how they wrap them.
I'd like to have one wrapped like a Samurai sword.
I wouldn't know where to start, but I do have some small pieces or rayskin laying around.