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    EMURA
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    In the meantime, I have fixed a date for my TSUBA FORGING WORKSHOP Please see below. TSUBA forging workshop 2025.pdf
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    This is not the right thread for a technical discussion, but what steel do you quench at "....light lemon yellow" ? Low alloy carbon steel for knives is quenched at cherry-red temperature (around 800°C)..
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    Forest, you cannot forge in the open without seeing the colour of the glowing steel properly. You need a shelter to keep daylight, wind and snow away!
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    Extreme HADORI! Looks a bit strange to me.
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    Stephen, to be honest, It will probably be fun but it will be hard work as well. What looks so easy when a trained smith is at it, might prove to be a much longer and harder challenge for a newbie. But usually, the results warrant the pain!
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    SUISHINSHI MASAHIDE (not Masahige) is a very famous name. A blade with this name (as TACHI MEI) without ORIGAMI is very unlikely to be authentic. But you have to look at the blade itself, perhaps it is not bad.
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    Deanna, you may be correct, it is not very clear. But on a TACHI MEI signed GUNTO, there could be a (SEKI - Brian is correct) stamp in this spot, and there are several - more or less competent - ways to try to erase it. So I should have correctly written "I believe I see". And then there are still my old eyes....
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    I don't see a star, but remains of a SHOWA stamp.
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    Mick, there is one NAITO to be seen on the BONHAM's page provided by Colin.
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    I also wish you were closer! It would then be warmer here!
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    Thank you Vincent, that looks genuinely Japanese now, please excuse my wrong assumption. But as others wrote, the blade may be quite late.
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    I am not too optimistic that the blade is of Japanese origin. It misses a clear SHINOGI on the NAKAGO; the KIRI JIRI also looks wrong to me. Detailed photos of the HAMACHI /MUNEMACHI area may prove me wrong. Please use a dark background to increase the contrast! In this case, the low quality KOSHIRAE might indeed belong to the blade as it does not look antique to me. Generally, you do not find EDO era blades very often with their original mountings.
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    That is a true beauty!
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    I understand, but you probably won't find a TSUBA forging workshop within walking distance.... I had people come to my seminars driving more than 600 km. As always in life, it is a question of interest and commitment.
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    Alexander, I think it would be appropriate if you did the translation yourself.
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    Steven, did you understand what Brian wrote? These swords have a SUGUHA HAMON but no HADA!
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    Steven, do you confuse HADA with HAMON? These blades have of course a HAMON.
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    Gray, this looks like a (heavily damaged) WAKIZASHI (not wakazashi), and it has nothing to do with WWII. Although it is in bad condition, it should NEVER rest on concrete or any other hard surface.
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    Hi Luke, FALCATA are is not related to the Celtic people but to the Iberians in Spain. The Celtic short sword was the template for the Roman GLADIUS.
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    Luke, it is a WAKIZASHI (not wakazashi), and the signature may be YOSHITSUGU (the pictures are not good enough to read). I fully understand that you like them, but TANTO may be quite a bit more expensive if in acceptable condition. If I may suggest, buy some good books on Japanese swords first so you better know what you like and what is real.
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    Deanna, If I am correctly informed, there are actually three SHIRÔ family members working, so differing MEI could also be explained by that.
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    Possibly KUNIHIRO. With a dark background, you get a better contrast which makes reading easier.
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    I wonder how SAMURAI measured the weight of their blades......
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    Dear members, as I regularly hold seminars on forging knives and tools, I thought it might possibly interest some of the esteemed members to try their hands on forging their own TSUBA from historic bloomery iron (ca. 300 years old, quite similar with TAMAHAGANE). I have prepared a leaflet (funny enough, it is called "flyer" in colloquial German ) with basic information which you will find in the attachment. I would appreciate any feedback, interest and suggestions. TSUBA forging workshop 2025.doc
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