jason_mazzy

LOL Any way they get into the raffle is fine by me!!! I just know Paul is great for teaching and advising, so this video would be a great raffle item.

Can I please get a translation and any history on the mei and smith please. unfortunately the seller looks to have "fixed" the rust problem on the nakago. Though I am hoping to work that as an angle to purchase the blade cheaper. I know a couple polishers who can re patinate the nakago.

donate a few copies for the raffle!

I have been getting these messages for about a week, they are sporadic

I also have a pair that came off an old tsuka, the theme is many tsubas

please post the auction house, and if phone or internet bids are available

looks like a samurai sode? the shoulder piece. I have seen this in menuki and fuchi-kashira, so I would assume in a kogai as well.

we need better and more pics. it does appear to have a mune and shinogi line, so thats a good start, but without alot of better brighter pictures I can not acertain the shape correctly. Also the Nakago (tang) is a picture we need to see.

better pictures than I have been able to acertain.

The second one is my kind of tsuba....... AVIAN SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

you guys are all hillarious. nice to see the lighter side of the guys coming out.

I know you have the bug, but please save your money. It is that much more you can put into a blade or polish.

I have bought martins already, this was to go with the heron and bamboo theme I got from Ian.

or pm mr hennick and me so we may download it.

I do not know alot about tsuba. I know this matches spmwhat closely to the fuchigashira set I bought from Ian on here. I have researched ad I believe it to be called Nagegaku gata. What period and school do you guys think this is, and what would be a fair price for this item. Neither of us know the value of it, and I don't want to pay too little or too much.

you can generally boil the fittings in distilled water for 20 minutes and not harm the patina, while removing wax and laquer.

I get that, but i am curious as to what any of them were for. they seem to differ alot on many of the ww2 blades.

I think in the morrow I will take a picture from the top looking down. It is deeply carved and Maybe it will help. Looks to me like a bowl full of something cookin' or just placed on the table. Like an ornamental dish.

real blade. showato. value is close to market

Got these on an old mucked up tsuka that revealed a shakudo with fine nanako and a crane in gold, silver and red copper fuchi, and these menuki. Looks like a pot with a flower in it surrounded by pines and bamboo on one and bamboo and some other small flower maybe an ume branch? in heavy gold foil on shakudo.

Yes there is a Habuchi. definite transition between the steel. But it looks like the serviceman who had it wanted to spruce up the blade a bit, because it looks like someone put a high polish on it. But once you take a bright light to it from the side you can see the folds, and activity. I'm thinking it was buffed and brasso'd. Regarding the Frankenstein, after I get a quick study on it I plan to turn it back to the world of Militaria. I am beffudled tho on whether I should replace the kai gunto tsuba with an original shin gunto tsuba to the koshirae, and sell the kai gunto tsuba seperately. On the one hand I believe the sword more valuable as 1 complete package, on the other the feller who passed away put this tsuba on for a reason.............................

the back would be a laquer or paint commonly seen on ww2 produced blades. sometimes a symbol, sometimes a number, and sometimes a couple what appear to be random lines. I do not know the signifigance of these laquer marks but have seen them several times.

http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/showa.htm UNDOCUMENTED SHOWA ERA SWORDSMITHS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following list of Japanese swordsmiths working during the Showa Era (WW II) are previously undocumented in any currently published reference (i.e.; Fuller and Gregory, Slough, Hawley or indexes on this or other sites). The signatures (mei) have been contributed by numerous collectors. The complete signatures (mei) appearing on the sword tang (nakago) are given when known. The numbers following the signature refer to the Kanji of the swordsmith's name from the tables on this site. Thus, Higo ju Yasutada (5,1) refers to the fifth Kanji listed for Yasu and the first Kanji listed for Tada in the tables of swordsmith Kanji. Any stamps, kokuin or kao appearing on the nakago are also noted. Murai Akihiro (1,2) Mimasaka ju Akinori (1,x) Murakami Haruhisa (1,1) Hiroyoshi (x,2) Takai Kanemasa (1,2) Unjosai Katsunaga (1,2) Kazushige (1,2) Hatano Kunimitsu (1,1) Hizen ju Masakiyo (1,4) Minamoto Masauji (1,2) Noshu ju Morimasa (2,1) Sukumoto Shigenori (2,1) Inoue Suketsuna (1,2) Bizen ju nin Yokoyama Sukechika (1,1) Higo ju Yasutada [kao] (5,1) Yoshiharu ["w" stamp] (1,1) Yoshitani ["w" stamp] (1,x)

The kai gunto tsuba seppa don't fit correctly either. I think this was a servicemans trade and swap! It is definately a real hamon, maybe oil quenched, but it seems to have nie, so that wouldn't make sense.......................... I also think someone tried to "fix the blade" and buff it. It looks like someone tried to shine it up real nice, making it rediculously hard for me to photograph it.

26 inch+ nagasa