Hi everyone thanks for having me. My name is Herman, I'm 35 and live I Sydney Australia. I've been interested and buying nihonto poorly for eight years or so. I like the idea of owning a piece of history made by craftsman rather than an artist. I've been to 2 NTHK shinsa's in Sydney and mainly gotten a ream of pink paper for my eBay purchases except my pride and joy a big beautiful monster(kissaki alone is 11.5 cm long and the cutting edge nearly 77cm) shinShinto katana by Ashu Sukeyoshi it already had a kantiesho for the blade and I thought I might submit the koshirae, kantiesho koshirae!
Any way that's the highlight of my nihonto collecting so far. I'll try and download and upload some pics. Thinking of throwing it in as my fiancee has a 13 year old boy(constantly inviting friends over....) and I need to invest some cash in the family business sharp swords are first on the list of expensive, dangerous luxuries?!
Ps: je parles et lis francais mes je l'ecrits tres mal!?