Stephen

Ascher not sure what your after, the pix look the same, maybe its a cookie thing...anyway you know what Bob told you, id go with that. Sometimes (and this is a big can of worms) shinsa's will down the age to be on the safe side. If you belive in your wak id have a full polish and sent to NBTHK. With all that going on in the world we dont need discontent on the board. We here on the board come together from all over the world for the our love of one subject Nihonto. If only the waring nations could find a common thread. Peace.

whats the link? who were the papers by? lets not go down that road you guys were on before. please

some very good points Grey.

other side has Kuniyoshi??

Hey Thanks i can live with that....us Stephans stick together :lol:

just a note on the Masamune book, if i have no bids over 10.00 ten hours before end i will pull the book. try to be a good guy but cant take that much loss. sorry

Thanks to all who have gave us a very interesting thread, would have expected Rich etc. to ring in but they must be busy else where. Thanks agan

Wil Id put your wanting to rush in on hold for at least month keep looking at swords, I think you have good taste, the Norimitsu is up there on my list from what else that has been shown. Read a little bit first, you have a great source in a member here who is very knowledgeable and kind person, Jean, id start a correspondence with him for as much time as he would like to help. Your very lucky to be able to spend that kind of money, me id pay off my car loan and CC bills. Take you time lots of great swords in your price range, i would hope it would be one that speaks not just to your head but to your heart as well. youll know it when you see it.

LOL i guess if you dont have trees you would not...bad joke, pix is so big i could not make it out. here it is smaller...still cant. hope someone will.

cant see the forest for the tree dead in front of me :lol:

I would like to be enlightened on the nakago it looks fine to my eyes, where was it messed with? I've seen shinshinto with little to no rust...this blade needs a bone rubbing then a light oil to stop the working red rust...remember red rust is bad needs to be stopped...id like to see it after it has been preserved, IMHO a polish would bring out a great blade but like I said that's my take it don't make it true...also if not in hand its very hard to make assumptions from pix. Franco has made me give it a hard look, the mounts are the flag that makes me wonder what was going on here. It may have been mounted late war...it could have been in shirasaya...that came from a shrine ....that's something we'll never know the could have, may haves. id like to know how well the habaki was made. something that would show us if this is a grand fake....lets hope their not that good now. i hope we don't get locked on this as its a wonder to me.

that is a absolute :lol: thanks for checking it does sound like he may be selling for someone other.

hey Carlo i seen your bid when i checked ebay..thanks and good luck.

gee may ha baa key someone can link you to a i u e o so with a k it would be ka ki ku ke ko and so on with each letter.

yes the sugata will tell us alot more.

if you doing it that way punch a hole in the cardboard where the mekugiana is so you can run a wire thru the nakago and the card board... some tape them to a board after being wrappd in newpaper, other just carry them in the wrapped newspaper. if your driving its not a worry, if flying take much caution as i have seen broke tips sticking out of boxes.

Glad you asked, shipping flat rate env. is about 15.00 to france and Germany. for any board menber ill give a discount of 5.00$

maybe they cut grapefruit with it?

id be glad to post for you. I use Corel photo house. when you save a pix you have options to save as tif, bmb or jpg...its not hard once you mess around with it.

A did you just have a touch up polish? pix are very blurry, hada is not visible, hamon looks Mino...im sure Bob would have told you what he thinks it is, did he not?

Franco not sure why you cant see any actvity ...so i cropped and lighted it up...looks like nice work to me. May have to do the same to the fittings pix are dark

Good eye AZ maybe some more pix Tsuba F/K and some of the mystery skin under the wrap, blade construction looks fine to me he's leaning toward shinshinto I'm gendaito looks like that from the hamon pix. Civilian mounts? Very interesting what one does and does not see.

Franco what are you talking about, kind hard to make a statement like that then not back it up. Please do tell

dont live in Nippon but i have a idea hire me as your porter. :lol:

completely safe to use goop or oops, just nothing with abrasive in it..id remove the glue and uchiko it till activity shows. hope we get a follow up on this.