Stephen

Was hoping the heavy hitters would chime in Darcy, Guido, Rinehard, & Ted T. How about it guys? its not my sword so you can let the owner know what you think he has, im pretty sure it will go to shinsa as he mulling it over now. So who will be first and if you'd like diff pix let me know.

Thanks Nigel i cant wait to see it. Rick you got it down, here is a pix from Hawley showing the style of dragon with ken but its right on as to which you point out.

Anne here are some pix to help out with the new words in your life first is the sori or zori measure, the deepest point of the line from the kissaki to munemachi. (from John Yumoto's The Samurai Sword) Basic Hamons (from The Connoisseur's book of Japanese swords) also types of hada (grain pattern) so you can look to see what you have. (from Johns) not to start anything a light coat of oil on the nakago(i use choji from Lohman) keeps the red rust (bad rust) away and lets the dark patina do its job (good rust). hope this dont start alot of

Nice pix Anne, i dont think i could pull that off with the yard rule, one thing in your kantei you have suguha for the hamon, suguha is a flat line, yours looks to be midare bellowing clouds. Ol dad had a good eye for quality, do you plan to have the ito repaired?

someone had faith in it or just to much money laying around $22, 229 WINNING BID!!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=020

Remy never ever be ashamed over something like that, plenty of time, i was leaning in the same den as Peter, with other input by PM im giving it a closer look.

yea your right i fig out of 67 views one or two would have had a go at it.

well guess everyone is past the beginner stage, huh? so now you big boys that partake in kantei can jump in...or not?

thought we might try a kantei that all the new guys could get in on, so ill post some pix then they can list what they see, no mune pix so its lori so well be on the same track you can cut and paste the below list and add your answer. Boshi Mune Lori mune Tsurikomi (blade shape) Hamon Hada Yasurime once we are in line with this then we can go forward to which smith or den being mumei, hope all take a crack at this in the end.

a client's O tanto came in yesterday and after taking some preliminary pix I was wondering if anyone care to give their interpretation of this horimono? after some better pictures perhaps we can do a Kantei?

nothing to let you have, JK's blade is not gunto with the mon on it...keep digging youll get there. I have no hard feelings its just when new members come in it take adjusting for everyone to style and how they think and post...all is well in nihonto world ..(be better if i could hold James sword).

didn't we have something like this a few months back and it was called a fake, guess now we know what it is. I've found it very interesting and thanks to all for bring it to light, hope i can dig up the past thread, it was almost all tang and short blade anyone remember the pix or was it on ebay?

took three times for my complant to go in...dont know about the rest of you guys.

HES GOT THE EGGS TO CALL MY BID SCAMMER!!! budo-to( 443) Cancelled: US $600,000.00 Explanation: scammer bid! Bid: May-27-08 06:38:15 PDT Cancelled: May-27-08 06:44:02 PDT

Want me to take it to half a Mil??

Rob keep in mind Namban Tetsu is not just Dutch steel could be Portuguese

much more fun at my expence will bring back the Thunder God AND THE DELETE BUTTON!!!!

i was wondering about the boshi and if it turned back..so did some photo shop...very nice blade. I think it needs to be sent to me for a few months for inspection just to make sure about sending it for papers. if you ever get the picture taking down some hada shots would be nice.

I did this is what i got! Retention sword fig it was being retaind...?? not papered

LOL thanks Jacques the red always gets me thinking its sold or hold.

ä¿å­˜åˆ€å‰£ i may be wrong but think this means sold or on hold???

I've owned all three, the new split has nothing added and doing cross reference its a pain IMHO, big brown does have more smiths with many more repeats in the same smith, the two blues are as Grey says good for travel and the extras are what you pay extra for...charts many many gendaito smiths as to which school they were at, or head of. if you ever find just the small of the two blue, that's where the extras are. Glad you found a set with Grey

Hi James IMHO its worth papering, but then im evil, all kidding aside here is the guide line for prices. http://www.bushidojapaneseswords.com/nbthkshinsa.htm

got that purgatory thing right...my books are froze in time.

Hello. My name is Jinsoo Kim, a process metallurgist of steelmaking and light metals. I am a Japanese sword enthusiast and very interested in metallurgical view of Japanese swordmaking based on my academic background. I wish you have wonderful time during your visit to this website. Education Ph.D. in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, McGill University, Canada, 2004 B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Korea, 1997 Rob the above is from his site, im sure you can trust Jinsoo, is/was a member here but since he moved back to his homeland we have not heard much from him...maybe hell drop in this time. He knows nihonto very well. BTW to the NMB