Ron S

"I wonder, in this, where is good old Dr Freud sexual side to Nihonto collection ?" *looks at his little wakazashi* Oh no! I hope I dont have katana envy!

LOL@Jean, so true! Personally I have always collected something,from my childhood years to my now mid 40's theres always been a collection of some sort. I have collected cars, motorcyles,music,books and knives.The knives lead me to swords,and once I discoved the Japanese sword I was hooked! I mostly have production stuff (mostly customised) and have recently bought my first nihonto.The book collection is still growing tho! The great thing about swords is they take up much less room and require much less maintaince that cars and bikes!

LOL, us aussies are taking over! Mike Lake and my self have just started a Aussie sword forum as well, we cater for both nihonto and production swords, we have a couple of local smiths joined up already and have a production sword data base up and almost fully functional(should be working by next weekend). All are welcome and we are non profit and not connected to any stores http://www.ausblade.com

Thanks Brian,ordered one from Tokagawa site. The ebay guy has some great books but seems considerably dearer than anyone else. I really must try to learn to read Japanese, I have pretty much everything from Amazon but theres always room for more

Does anyone know where I might purchase the book?

They are huge! I saw a pic of some dragon menuki on a HUGE O Dachi that were about 75mm long perhaps they have a similar application.