Stephen

Ok im tired of this. Both of you to your rooms and dont come out until after supper which your not getting! Take it to PM s from now on we dont need this bickering. better still take it face to face. one point we do use our real names on this board ....well most of us who have nothing to hide.

Great intentions one and all (well not all) but I don't want to be the one who said, the newbie's will not use it and just make statements to the effect, you told me this and that but I have learned nothing. Hope I'm wrong.

Thank you Chris please tell us their names

not speaking for Chris but his standard was not to talk about active auctions. don't know if that's changed or not.

in polish, stamp removed, when were dead and gone it papers, think the price wanted reflects how long it is.

Id contact Larry Klan and David Hofine Larrys email is LKlahn@aol.com, and find David at http://www.swordpolisher.com/ if you do have one around May 26 ill be in the cities for a bit Chirs B where are you living now?

Kalus without standing on my head i think your correct

Chris sure is nice to have your experience on board, now how is that Gendaito book going? :D

looks very tired, almost as tired as I

peaks evey three or four is sanbonsugi ....most likly a seki blade for the war.

http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/yoshsad2.jpg does not quite look the same, many factory blades had some names chipped into them, dont get your hopes up.

wasnt sure if it was Sada or tada...hard to tell on them showato made meis

my scaner has a preview that i can crop to just what is being scaned. sending a PM about your jumping in with both feet and arms and wallet

not a date on the other side?, dont have to be pre war es with the chippy mei

Jason if you have a program to crop some of the scan you may have closer pix, yoshi someone looks like the late war chippy mei id expect a stamp of somekind.

maybe the just right sword has come along for you, I'm sure many members remember that first sword that spoke to them, even sent shivers down your arms and to your heart.

i like to look at hamon like this http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/terms/terms.htm maybe your thinking of hako?

its the clove oil you get for or to numb a sore tooth, that should not be used, have seen where a fellow used it on a sword and it had a blue/purple tint left on the blade in areas that was not coverd with reg oil.

looks good Joe , only thing better is on a dark sheet.

and even then it may be wrong and need another one to see if they concur

As do I but if there was a big Fraud I think it would have been done better to deceive. the file marks alone are amateurish and not done by a trainded togi, maybe they did not have the yen to have it done right....how would we ever find out??? As far as don't think you can tell being you did not have it in hand, for what he paid for it out of a second hand store that I never stop into as it looks pretty junky its not some big rue to make you all think its a treasure, holding it at arms length one can tell it was a big beefy blade at one time who or why did what is history. maybe this thread should be too.

what a sad world you live in

know of the seller all i have heard is good, doubt it will stay that low.

Nice talking to you to Joe, blade IMHO was a great katana at onetime with fubari. some of what i could see , very shallow hamon with what looked like bamboo curtain, maybe masame but could not pull the hada. Not much more we can do Joe sorry we took you around the block but like said thats what were here for.