Hakama Spoons
Over the summer my oldest The Tyrant started to say that he wanted to train with me at the dojo. I own a Japanese Swordsmanship dojo in the Twin Cities, Kai Shin Dojo. I commissioned a friend of my wife’s sew, a Gi (shirt), Hakama (split skirt pants) and Obi (belt) for him to train. Now on mine I have a little plastic spoon thing that is attached to the back of the hakama and tucks in the obi. Through this process I found out that it's called a dome, but I like spoon better. This makes everything stay together better. I have seen students that did not have it so I wanted for his uniform too. As I just came off of Bob Clagett and the team from I Like To Make Stuff’s (ILTMS) Fusion 360 class, I felt like this was a good chance to give me a small challenge and design it in Fusion.
When I started I thought I knew how it was supposed to look. It had a couple convex and concave curves to. I started out by playing around with that but it was not turning out how I wanted. What I ended up doing was making a circle and then adding a rectangle to it. At this time I found the slot tool and that was perfect for what I need to make the slot for the strap. I started to print it on the 3d printer. While that was going I went to the dojo and got my hakama to get measurements off the spoon. Below can see prototype 1 next to the real thing.
Now that I had the real thing I could get measue. What I found out is that on the real thing it was 4 shape. The base is a circle. Off of that it has a trapazoid that connects to the rectangle with a slot in it. Once I had that plus all the measurements, it was no time before I had the real deal made up.
After I had a good copy of the real thing now it was time to make a size appropriate. Tried one at 50% scale and one at 25% scale. The 50% scale looked good for a child but I did the 25% scale just in case. I sent them off to the lady and had her finish off the hakama. She did end up using the 50% scale one.
Overall this was a fun project to get used to a new software and a chance to make something that I needed but had no way of actually getting. I had fun and it gave me a chance to grow in my designing skills.