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SAS

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  1. I was hoping for him that was the case
  2. "Good luck in your endeavor"
  3. Welcome Steve, from another Steve!
  4. SAS

    Question About A Daito

    The crest on the fuchi is the Sasaki family one, if memory serves.
  5. Experienced polishers charge around $100 per inch. Some charge less. The only ones i have had direct contact with are Robert Benson and Woody in Hawaii. (As a smith i polish my own work.)
  6. Habaki on backwards,missing a piece, nakago beat to heck, blade doesn't look like anything special, mismatched parts, unlikely candidate for restoration.
  7. Same covered saya may be an indication of a higher end sword, but not really an indication of when it was made. No pics of blade, so can't say anything...that handle is roached...if seller doesn't want to show the nakago, I would pass.
  8. I hope you didn't pay too much; that is a particularly uncraftsman-like replica....
  9. It looks like an amateur had their way with it.
  10. SAS

    Nakago Thoughts.

    I suspect it has more to do with fitting koshirae than making it lighter or faster, as the amount of steel removed is minimal and would have little effect on handling.
  11. Not recommending one way or the other, but black natural lacquer can be purchased in tubes from Namikawa Hebei.
  12. Looking good!
  13. 3600 students!!!
  14. SAS

    Nakago Thoughts.

    Mune of nakago shaved down, anomalous scratches not oriented with file marks, freshness of mei .....could have been o-suriage based on height of mei to polished area and hint of hamon continuing past the machi. Interesting.
  15. Some kinds of "wood glue" will accelerate rusting....ask me how i know.... rice glue was used and still is for good reason. I would avoid anything that would change the external finished surface, like wood glue.
  16. A " yes" from 2 Steves......one more for a quorum, or is 2 enough?
  17. Use the sword to chase away the giant frog swallowing the sun!
  18. My understanding is that Showato are always non-traditionally made swords; gendaito are modern traditionally made swords since the end of Shinshinto. Shinsakuto are newly made swords in the traditional manner, so perhaps there is overlap in the definition with gendaito.
  19. Some TIG welding, and that will buff right out!
  20. Because hope springs eternal? it doesn't create much hope in me from the photos.
  21. Perhaps it is a language issue, but I suggest that in fact there are trace elements in the iron sands used for tamahagane, and in fact these trace elements end up incorporated in the end product, regardless of whether or not they have been placed into solution through reaching a melting point (they have not.) This has been well establish by a number of metallurgical studies published. I think we are revisiting this subject, and it has been covered here before.
  22. SAS

    Franken Sword....

    Just can't help some folks......you try, and get a poke in the eye for your trouble....least that seems to be the way these days......
  23. I think we discussed this before, regarding Japanese smiths forging blades in the US and other countries....I seem to recall one of the names mentioned having a regular forge in the northwest US for a time.
  24. SAS

    Ask For Guidance

    This sword could possibly have been made by a non Japanese smith; what does the rest of it look like?
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