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  1. Haha, good late night read, thanks. it´s often like this to day, we are living in a very "unique" time period. It is the medieval of technic,... also the term medival has this kind of irony in it, when used in other contexts than just as time period. Trying to fly outa space but not able to use information that is relatively easy to get. But as funny this tamahagane claim is, I got the feeling there is some other reason behind mentioning it. Somthing like the tank and barrel storry, that would worked with toledo steel as well, I found out. Greetings Ruben
  2. Hi Taylor, shure the pattern will be visible in some way, but it will look totally different. It will lack in contrast. Having the blade polished before etching makes more sense I think. Had such ideas as well. But I wouldn´t consider to try on antiques. The second picture you posted showing some spectacular pattern. Greetings ruben
  3. John, my pleasure, if it is of some use for once ;--) By the way, there were view bushu artist using the masa character. Masyoshi(also at least 2), Masahisa, Masamizu, Masakata, like so.... There are at least one other Masayuki wich signed with an other yuki character. Tsuba above is one of them with a more common motivs , that our Masayuki used several times as well. Aside all joking I thought the funny coincident I tried to refer to, the great idea of the helping aspect on your new acquisition can well be obvious not by me only. Look at the label design of Old Peculier, thats why I posted it. :-). Greetings ruben
  4. Glad it was true, you`re welcome cheers! Great idea John, realy. It could work out that way for this tsuba. I will try it for shure when I come across this beer! ruben
  5. Aha, 8 dan all Japan championships. Very competitiv on the highest level. Good to watch 8 dans. Watching is important too, first it seems bid boring. But there is a lot to it, when finding somthing usefull at the right time. Good thing is in Kendo the basic princibles are clear and allways apply. Doing it is another thing. For example keeping the feet dead straight. It is most important to attack in a straight manner. On all levels people don´t do it, or can not. Should be the easiest thing. And so on. It´s just like in daily life. How often we heard "do it, ...just do it"..."why don´t you do it?". We don´t know sometimes, or it´s too late by than. Failing in Kendo is for free and necessary to some degree. Getting hit in a thrilling situation can be most interesting and leaves me some times with an stupid smile from ear to ear. Watch Kyoto Takai if you are interested. I´am curious what you will find,... differences, what kind of. Don´t know if we went of topic too much. If so, please admin just let us know. Mark, If you have questions I´am more than happy trying to help out as far as possible, just pm me. I can share my small video collection as well, there are not too many special vids of the highest grade I found so far. Ps.: You would´t be dead in a second, it would be your wish by than, joke Greetings
  6. Ooooh John, I´am excited. It´s signed Masayuki, I know that (99% shure). Please someone confirm? His signature is unique, look at the Fu character, if the Yuki is hard to tell. You will know him immediately if you look for his work and other Bushu Ito artists. By the way I can´t read Kanji. Cause of his work I´am into Ito iron tsuba. Yours is also made of iron. Often His signature is pretty faint, had my first tsuba for 10 years without knowing what the sukashi motiv is or that it is signed. One day I looked at it again, I think it was under daylight with afternoon sun and discovered a signature. It opened my eyes and got me motivated to do little research. Enjoy, yours got some unique design, never saw this kind of style from him. There are some common ones that others did as well, but most of his work has some crispness or feel to it. Maybe better to observe on the very simple pieces. For me at least. Cheers ruben
  7. You are welcome Mark, it is interesting. What strikes me most is how this people taking such kind of thrusts on regular basis. With the shinai some times it can be little nasty too, but nothing to worry anymore. But with this heavy pole,...little scary I think. I don´t remeber the vid, or never saw it but... There are different situations or reasons why two people crossing swords. The red Flag shows a valid point for the red player and white for the white one, if 2 referees saw the same thing and reacting in the very same moment so to say. It´s one of the hardest part to be a good judge, first someone has be a good kendoist and a trusted person. Valid point just means valid point (Ippon) under certain rules, or better to say the first strike that can be counted. Kendo maybe should be seen as it is, as martial art, or just an art were different people trying to practice some kind of "more or less" uniform technics. They are found to work best in this context for now. But it is developing constantly. Some people even see it as sport. Others have very conservativ fews or ideas, like me for example. How a real sword fight would be,... better not to think about. It shure could last for some time in the worst case, not like ippon shobu and over. Greetings ruben
  8. Hi Gentlemen, Hello Mark, nice find I realy like this one, enjoy it. As Piers said, I too believe that short blades go with long poles in that case. Reason I think is the mass. Before impact the blade is making a big circular motion, if spearman want it to do so. Thats nearly impossible to catch by the eye when beeing attacked, also this kind of technic could shatter a sword blade maybe, or just move it out of the way. Wanted to share this short clip: Greetings ruben
  9. Jean, they had but anyway. Blacksmith workshops were often located near creeks. I know it depends on the size . I watched Japanese sword making videos for hours and hours. These deshi are human powerhammers, 2 or 3 guys banging so precisely and with such force. Also in India the smiths had helpers too, there wife´s. They were banging like crazy. As I´am into swords, I will try to make some. I take my hat off to you. Greetings ruben
  10. Wow great hammers. Do you use the top fuller for drawing out as well? Cheers ruben
  11. Riveting, yes I could imagine that, thats why there is a ball pien maybe. It will take some time before I´am able to melt the first ingot. Good luck, looking forward to see some wootz as well. Greetings ruben
  12. Jean, yes you put it right,... the hard way. But as hard as it is, it also has some benefits. I dont have to bother much with folding and welding. I would love to do that but as single person without a powerhammer, thats realy difficult. Drawing out the ingot is hard as well or even harder, but I can take the time and slowly, slowly get somewere and decarborise the ingot. The furnace will be the gasforge with compressed air flow. I will not built it by my self, it is crazy enough to melt steel that way. Greetings ruben
  13. Joe, yes the striking part is small that makes it difficult at first. These kind of hammers maybe are for sickle making. I want to use it for beveling. For main forging tasks I have to try what works best, I don´t know yet. It´s not too difficult to find hammers for that task I believe. In the past I used grandfathers old slage hammers and shoemakers hammer and a blowtorch to make small things. But it´s time to get serious about it after so long :-). Greetings
  14. Hi Jean, it is an english hammer I believe. I don´t have it now, almost shure it´s not readable. If I have somthing to show I will, I can´t wait to start, but first I need an anvil too. ...a forge would be also good to have, need one were I can reach high temperatures as well. In the meantime I will studie some alchemy to produce somthing similar like this, should be possible: If not at least I tried. Greetings ruben
  15. Hi Gentlemen, think I have found what I was looking for. The thing is I wanted a hammer that has this elongated shape. And I´am very much into antique tools, so came up with this solution, 1260 grams. It is little more corroded that I normaly would accept, but 100% functional and seems some how "new old stock" :-) Lets see, other antique hammers like a hot cut and so on are on it´s way as well. Thank you all, Brian, Jean, Jean, Joe and Greg and best regards ruben
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