Nihonto.com Update

[Toryu2020]

Folks

Fred has updated the website, and I find it easier to navigate and much fresher. The articles which were buried on the old site are now front and center and he has added some great Musashitsuba to the gallery.

Check it out and send him your feedback I am sure he'd love to hear it.

-t

[christianmalterre]

so i´ll do it ! !

thank you Thomas for this support!

 

me

[Stephen]

http://www.nihonto.com/

[christianmalterre]

nothing new here....

do keep calm!

 

[Ray Singer]

There appear to be some filtering issues. The top-level Sales page does not include swords. The Sword Sales landing page begins with a mis-tagged tsuba.

 

http://www.nihonto.com/for-sale/

http://www.nihonto.com/category/for-sale/swords/

[christianmalterre]

Ray ?

do you buy these swords ?

 

i definitely do prefer the your´s ones.. not all, definitely and of course! ( as i simply can not afford) - but, least- some last remaining ones i could hopefully scratch me...- LOL!... )

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and again....( a collector loving Toshiro Mifune in his best age... )

 

i am NOT daccord Mifune did quitt the scene..-eitherway.... You do get a point !  Fred !!!- ! "Point".

 

but!!!!!! i do miss the essential! !

 

me

[Toryu2020]

Thanks Ray

I will pass your comments along.

-t

[Stephen]

Have some more schnapps Christian. 

[christianmalterre]

i rather think it is the Schnapps  for you old sniper friend !

eitherway-

reading such like...-

 

"The Sword Sales landing page begins with a mis-tagged tsuba." 

 

i definitely do ask me!

 

but well....???? ( i am, as usual !- of course! -wrong!) LOL!

 

( knowing this is bad for business of course!)    WHAT ELSE ? 

 

 

 

Christian

[ggil]

Fred is tops fellas. He's president of one of the oldest clubs in the US. Many of us have come to really appreciate his sharing of treasures and research. He is knowledgeable and honest, so I very much doubt any website errors would translate to more serious issues. Thanks Ray for the heads up!

[Brian]

I would try and clean this up, but I have no idea what is going on. Maybe too early for me.
Anyways, Fred is a top notch guy from what I hear, and the page is looking very, very good.
And damn, he has some nice items!

[Gakusee]

While I do like the intuitive, scroll-down design (favoured by so many websites nowadays) in principle, I do miss the hitherto more straightforward classification he used to employ for his swords according to price bands (sub $5k, $5-10k etc). Now, on my mobile devices, So the upper end swords (the various Juyo for example) are mixed with others (plus kodogu and books) and one needs to scroll through endless sequential pages to find something specific. Am I missing something?

[Jean]

I totally agree with you Michael. Apart the pictures, I prefer the previous site.

[Okiiimo]

I feel a sense of loss of a very familiar website that's been around for a long time. The website looks nice and contemporary and bringing the articles forward is a real bonus but I miss the sword categorization of the old site.

[SwordGuyJoe]

Change = hard. I think with some grief counseling, we're all going to get through this together.

[Vermithrax16]

I like the new format better, but seems I am the outlier.

[Stephen]

always bugs with new sites ....give him a break!!

[Toryu2020]

Jeremiah

Youre not an outlier. I like the new look and I'm looking forward to some new merch and new articles.

-t

[Gakusee]

Guys - no one says the format or design are not good. They are pretty and sleek. What most of us seem to mind is the lack of logical systemisation of his merchandise into logical groups such as: swords, tosogu, books, katchu, miscellaneous. Furthermore, we are missing the price subgroups which allowed people to instantly identify where the items are which fit people's budgets.

 

In the current website version, one needs to scroll and scroll and scroll and leaf through items and open them up in the hope they might be affordable only to find that the price is not right or whatever.

 

So, the new website might look very pretty but it is not as logical, easy to navigate or immediately usable. Let us not confuse these two aspects please.

[SwordGuyJoe]

I like it too.

[Jean]

I definitely prefer the presentation of samurai shokai, e-Japanese swords or Ray or Dan website, there are clearer and more structured. That is what lacks in this new website. There is an excellent new article on Tametsugu but I had to struggle to find it but the article section is very good and clearer. Main critics are on tsuba and nihonto, these sections are not structured all articles are mingled.

[Toryu2020]

Michael et al

If you go to the for sale page youll see everything in the order he loads to the page BUT

if you look in the upper right hand corner you will see a menu bar, there are pull downs there, you should see a pull down for swords wakizashi tanto menuki tsuba etc...

 

So the price range is gone but the categories are still there

-t

[Gakusee]

Thank you, that is better and clearer than before. Clearly feedback is taken into consideration. Good publicity for Fred and his website by the way, too, for those outside of the US, who might not know him.

[Brian]

Good publicity for Fred and his website by the way, too, for those outside of the US, who might not know him.

Yeah....we are good like that.

Lotsa promotion for sites that don't think we are worth mentioning in their links.

[Stephen]

instead of tearing it apart explore Fred's wonderful world by looking around

 

this was posted on FB or id not seen it. 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred Weissberg This is one of my favorite pieces in my mezurashii mono (珍しい) collection, i.e. "strange things". You can view it in more detail on my website:

 

 

http://www.nihonto.com/unusual-wakizashi-koshirae-by-takahashi-kiyotsugu-%E9%AB%98%E6%A9%8B%E6%B8%85%E6%AC%A1/

 

Nagamasa Ikeda San-sukumi no

 

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Michael 'Mick' Crnovich Look phenomenal Fred!

 

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Thomas C Helm Thank you Ikeda Sensei!
三竦み Sansukumi - a three way stand off. The snake fears the snail, the snail fears the frog, the frog fears the snake. Each cancels the other out so nothing happens...

 

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Nagamasa Ikeda Yes！

[Stephen]

But Tom, what about the beetle? 

[Stephen]

Only hassle for me is trying to enlarge pix, when clicking pix you have to use cursor on my touchscreen laptop, dont back click to return!  small x top left corner closes! 

 

if you dont have touchscreen you really cant expand them. 

 

 

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ok if you click or tap out side pix, in white border, it goes back

Edited September 21, 2017 by Stephen

[TheGermanBastard]

I don't understand the criticism. Aise from some technical bugs that are just common at the start it is maybe the best lookig dealer nihonto website on the net in my personal oppinion. Well done!

[Gakusee]

A few responses to NihontoCollector (apologies but on mobile cannot see names) and Stephen:

 

- this is well-intended constructive criticism from people who have been using the site for 10-15+ years. We like what is there and wish it to succeed

- our suggestions are gradually being implemented, which shows there is merit in what we are doing. We are highlighting aspects which can make it more user-friendly and practically usable

- clearly, we have nothing better to do and we lack engaging topics to discuss, so we are jumping at this trivial opportunity to engage in a discussion (a self-effacing, semi-sardonic wake-up call to the community)

 

A personal opinion here: Darcy'a Nihonto.ca website for me beats everyone else hands down:

- no one matches the hundreds of razor-sharp high-quality photos there

- his essays are extensive, informative and full of insights (e.g. how many of the smith's other blades have made it to Juyo and beyond)

- translations and phonetic transliterations of sayagaki

- user-friendly, uncluttered, straightforward and clear

- solid archive of study materials

[Jean]

Very true Michael but Darcy has only 10/12 items on his website