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  1. Ken-Hawaii
    Mike, right now is a good time to stop doing anything to your blade. There is a huge gap in your knowledge, & you need to fill it with some studying. I suggest heading over to Amazon, where $20 will buy you https://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Sword-Handbook-John-Yumoto/dp/4805311347 which is a good primer for this very complex field.
  2. Ken-Hawaii
    Quite impressive, Piers!
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    John, please note that if you send the blade to NBTHK, it will need a quality polish PLUS a new habaki & a shirasaya. You can't send it in koshirae. My guess is that you're looking atb $1500-$2000 before the shinsa. Are you that curious?
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    It's interesting, Peter, that my wife & I have agreed to start selling off items that no longer interest us, which includes a large art collection, Sterling silverware, & the like. But neither of us are interested in selling our sword collection. Of course, that may be because we're both still active martial artists, & after 30+ years, we're still learning the correct ways to use a sword.
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    Welcome aboard, Joshua. Grey is exactly right. We've all been in your position, craving our first blade. Most of us grabbed the first thing we could find, & a few months later, wondered what the hell we were thinking! Grab some reference books from Amazon, instead, & spend some time learning before you buy. You'll appreciate that advice, later on.
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    Still drooling over that Yoshiro/Heianjo tsuba!
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    My first Nihonto

    Ken-Hawaii replied to Paz's topic in Nihonto

    Paz, please take a look at the sixth photo here, https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/39816-tanto-yoroi-doshi-unmounted/ That angle tells us a lot, because the nioi-guchi highlights the real details. It does take some practice, though.
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    Roger that, Piers! I waited 6 weeks for a tsub from Hiroshima back in March, so this is a big step in the right direction.
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    A shinsakuto can also be a shinken. Just how the blade is used. Can't be an iaito, because those blades aren't sharpened.
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    Very nice collection & stand, Jiri. Surprised it hasn't already been snatched up.
  11. Ken-Hawaii
    Paul Martin shipped a book to me on May 8, & it arrived in Hawaii on 5/11. That's about as fast as I've ever seen. I guess we can place orders now.
  12. Ken-Hawaii
    Pretty place to live, Gary. Welcome aboard, & you should find quite a few other tosogu collectors.
  13. Ken-Hawaii
    FYI, some of the latest Windows updates are not playing well with Firefox's updates. Known problems, but no idea when things will be fixed, by either of them.
  14. Ken-Hawaii
    Our small local shows only have 10-12 tables with sword related items. The other 300 are firearms, mostly. But even that small amount takes awhile to go through, especially since Bob Benson is selling. Haven't had the opportunity to hit Chicago or San Francisco, but I'll leave my credit card locked up, & just carry the cash I can afford to spend.
  15. Ken-Hawaii
    You had your eyes open, & weren't sidetracked by all the eye-candy. Thanks for posting the photo & hope others do, too.
  16. Ken-Hawaii
    Yurie, I bought both PDF & hardcopy, & the slightly-offset cover doesn't bother me, at all. It's what's inside that I read & study. You did good! Now, quit worrying about it.
  17. Ken-Hawaii
    We see tamahagane as "precious," because of its final form. I've seen Rolexes made from an iron meteorite, but the metal has to be acid-etched to show the Widmanstatten pattern" https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/watches/article/rolex-daytona-meteorite-2021
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    This should answer your questions: https://markussesko.com/2015/06/10/kantei-3-hamon-boshi-3/ One quick note is that when the hamon changes abruptly at the boshi, the blade is Shinto or more recent. Also, what happened to the tip of your blade?
  19. Ken-Hawaii
    George, if you only pick up one thing from this forum, it should be to "Buy the blade, not the mei." The Internet gives you lots of ways to determine whether a blade compares physically to one you're interested in buying. Is the sugata the same as a TH or juyo example? How about the hamon & jigane? If all of those match, THEN start checking out the mei, not before. Let your brother know, too.
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    I was mostly curious how anything could be huge on a mune!
  21. Ken-Hawaii
    Aiden, see if this helps:
  22. Ken-Hawaii
    Peter, no new discoveries since December? I've missed your posts.
  23. Ken-Hawaii
    Welcome, Enrique, John, & Mike.
  24. Ken-Hawaii
    I'm surprised that no one has commented on the splendid nioi-guchi, Adam. That was the first thing that jumped out at me, & it almost always indicates a superioir blade. You did good.
  25. Ken-Hawaii
    Highly unlikely that any subscribers feel stiffed.
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