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1. 
   davamoore | Mar 14, 2003 10:47pm | #1

   Jamie, first, thanks again for giving me ideas for WW points of interest on my recent trip to San Francisco.

   Now, #### for tat:  Someone recommended this retailer as comprehensive and offering good service, for tansu hardware.  I've only been to the website, but they seem to have quite a bit available:

   http://www.misugidesigns.com/tools.html

   Good luck,

   David

   "The world that was not made is not won by what is done" -- Mundaka Upanishad

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   Len | Mar 15, 2003 04:36am | #2

   Jamie,

   I've searched all over as well. Try here

   http://www.chisler.net/index.htm

   I recently built a stereo tansu of sorts. I have it posted in the gallery. I bought some brass tapered rings from Lee Valley. Cleaned the lacquer finish off and turned them black with liquid gun blue.

   I used to live in Tokyo and most of the tansu hardware is just as expensive there as it is here.

   Good luck,

   Len

3. 
   Jamie_Buxton | Mar 15, 2003 07:12pm | #3

   David, Len --

      Thanks for the help.   I'd found Misugi and Chisler, and was balking at their prices.   Depending on style, they want $30-$40 for one handle.   At those prices, I'll have more cost in handles than in wood.

      Instead of blowing the budget on handles, I'm going to cheat.   I like a pretty C-shaped bail style that Chisler calls warabite.   From many suppliers, I can buy a handle sold as Arts & Crafts that has this bail, riveted to a rectangular backing plate with little pyramidal domes on it.   It costs $3.   Cutting off the backing plate off produces something that looks very much like the authentic handles.   Of course, it is cast pot metal with "old iron finish", not hand-forged by wizened old artizans in Japan, but at the price...

        Jamie

4. 
   fustyducker | Mar 02, 2014 03:49pm | #4

   Tansu hardware

   Lee Valley Tools has a decent selection of inexpensive die cast and steel reproduction hardware suitable for use on Japanese style pieces .  I bought steel handles for use on an Asian influenced Arts & Crafts style blanket chest that is fairly large and heavy (about 125 lbs), figuring that traditional Warabi style cast iron handles would be too brittle (and likely to break when lifting this chest which is why I used four!).  Go to their search page and type in "tansu"

   http://www.leevalley.com/US/home/Search.aspx?action=n