Stephen

I think pix of the numbers and stamp would also be nice to see, even thou you can find the Mei on Dr. S great site id like to have yours for my file if you care to email them to me ...hai domo!

also they're in Japanese

Sadly as Brian stated some from the west desire papers with there swords, i was taught to buy the sword (and its workman ship) then not to worry about the mei and papers. I think the papers will hold there value

i think you did well, one of the cleaner ones ive seen. good work.

Herr Reinhard Its been too long, welcome!

how about the US one? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 26_fvi%3D1

Martin if you want to do bank wire to me drop me a line then i can forward ..no fee from me because of the board donation,but also no cost to me please.

Kane for sure, have one on file somewhere

http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/kanji/kanji1.htm

more like Kanesada

also brings to light that Shinsa mills at shows can miss such cracks, did on that sword and as well on mine. Id stand behind Bob 100%.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0315821448 was wondering a thing or two, that common of tsuba to sell at that low price? was the four silver corners added later? anyone bought from this seller? looking at his other auctions at the bottom of the page he has a graph, is he in line as to their condition? any way thought his approach to selling was something different with his layout and you might want to take a look.

a simple one it is, less humor about the state of the worlds economy, were all in a world of hurt, some more so than others but we may all be in the same boat soon. The Mod's have enough to wade thru and keeping tempers in line is becoming less fun for them from what I read. We all have our idios, if we can keep it simple to what its about nihonto wise, all will have alot more fun.

and the beat goes on....and on and on and on. Have it set up like many levels of membership. standard member....too cheap to donate other grades you can use your imagination, using Japanese names or just to make my point metals brass ....10-20$ books ect silver.....25-50$ members ships to JSSUS ect Gold.....50-100$ prints tsuba ect .. Life member....100+ no more need to donate... just a thought, but may be making it too complicated, back in the day we just sent the riches to the Rich's and Brian

Raffle we don't need no stink'n raffle, post the pp address while I'm slightly flushed, if my small donation helps the board and you want to reward me with a small denotation gift, (it happens everywhere), then its not my business how you decide to draw what I win...err...receive from you.

Rich T good show mate, ya shoulda drank that Knobb Creek i sent over, then ya coulda cared less about idoits. Be safe.

Pictures?

WW11 smith, Like Henry said someone rewraped the tsuka poorly. http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/ichimon3.jpg

Ok we need on of you Brian or point out yourself, im sure we all would like to know what our leader looks like

not as learned as Ted but i have seen where you can see it on one side only, maybe under so Xpower it would show but not with the eye. FWIW

Henry Ive got a line on one stay tuned as i have not heard back from him if its still for sale.

very nice John

I think not, most likly it was there pre polish, ive seen hargiri missed by two shinsa teams due different conditions.

oh to have young eyes again most i could make was the tomo in the smiths name

a very interesting question, hope one of boards togi's chime in on this, how can a polish cause a crack?