Justin Grant

I assume it’s 5p or after on the left coast. I win!!! Seriously, congrats to all, especially to Brian and the community for taking my money. Yet another item I must sneak into my home to maintain marital bliss. @Brian, let me know how to send the $$. @Scogg, much appreciated!!!

$1475.00

$1350.00

Sam, for that awesome upgrade, I’ll up my bid to $1,250.00 US

Bid $1,000.00 UDS.

Hokke In layman’s terms, the bent anchors on each side, these should be a sharp 90 bend on real, repos have a round edge. on the inside, you see two rivets near the lower teeth, another modern approach, no rivets in original, and harder to differentiate from pictures but it’s painted and not urushi and the odoshi is not laced properly. these are the first impressions, but it’s completely modern.

Such a shame for this shop to be peddling this as anything other than modern. Truly a shame.

It’s leather. I used a consolidator on it to stop it from powdering. I took it to a leather “dealer” who sells and produces leather goods and he recommended the stabilizer. Appreciate your help, as always.

Not much to see. It’s not in the best condition. Blade signed Yoshida Yoshitsugu

Hi Bruce Here is the link http://ohmura-study.net/904.html My 98 has the leather over the wooden saya, but the leather can't be removed, it is part of the saya. Appreciate the help, I suspect that my leather cover was a financial one, vs a purposeful application.

I have been wondering about the difference between a "Leather Combat Cover" vs "Last stage type leather-binding wooden Saya" (Ohmura-san Site). I have a T98 that is a black lacquered saya with the leather cover, which Ohmura-san calls a Last stage type leather-binding wooden Saya. How do you square this with a Leather Combat Covers discussed in this post? And I am assuming not all combat swords had a leather cover, correct?

And dealers wonder why we have trust issues with them.

Urushi on fabric is a well known Japanese Armor trick. You will find all sorts of pieces this way. It makes them strong and water resistant.

Luminol reacts to the iron in the blood. The lab said it reacted to biological material. So, it’s blood, but they don’t say that, they say biological material.

I had it tested and the inside was positive for biological material (blood). It does not have an exit hole, so it stayed in the poor chap wearing it. Average military Tanegashima had a caliber of 5/8 to 3/4", so that hot ball will smash a large hole.