Jean

Ruroni Kenshin aka Jesus Christ (JC), Please signed all your posts with a first name and an initial as per the Board rules

Same for me, long live Ford

I just receive this e-mail: « Hello everybody, this is Bella, for those of you who don't know I am Ford's partner and I also help him with his films. I am posting for Ford because I need to let you all know that he was taken to hospital on Friday after having a heart attack. It had actually started the Sunday before with Ford being in some very severe pain, but he would not go to the doctor and carried on working for another week before he finally admitted defeat. He is ok and stable now, and absolutely in the best place so please don't panic. Tomorrow he will have an angiogram, where we will find out what needs to happen next. He may just need stents, he may need more invasive treatment but at least something will be done to help him now. For over a year he has been struggling so much with his breathing and pain in his body, we thought it was just his auto-immune disease getting worse and we were worried. It turns out that he has been having heart problems and the constant stress and worry of everything has clearly made it worse. He would not stop working, he was very worried about money and having to meet bills, and on top of that he was desperate to finish up the book project and finally get it published so as not to let anyone down, but he was having to find time to do that around the paid work. He was literally working himself to death and I for one am glad in a way that now he has to stop. It makes me angry that he is even in a position where he is scrabbling for money to pay bills when he has a talent so huge and brilliant. I wish we lived in another time where his kind of talent was celebrated more. People play the financial markets making money out of nothing and yet people who do make beautiful things in the world like poetry and art, or wonderful music end up killing themselves out of desperation. Anyway. The doctors have said that he will need to take at least six weeks off work and we will somehow have to find a way to manage. Being self employed is no fun sometimes but we have my Goldsmithing work and hopefully that will be enough. Whilst we are hugely appreciative of the vast amounts of kindness and support and understanding almost all of you have endlessly given here, I need to say something that Ford will be cross with me about. It is that a very few people here who backed this project have put untold amounts of stress on him, these last few months, even posting bad reviews about him on facebook and calling up the publishers to check he wasn't lying. Probably those people won't believe me, and might even want to check up on him now, so Peter Bond, Ford is in the acute Cardiac Ward of Torquay Hospital, and is in room 8 if you want to check. I hope now these next few weeks allow Ford to reflect on what he really wants - he wants to make his own art pieces that aren't commissions and then maybe have a show. I want desperately to help him do this. I don't know how we will do it because of the constant need to chase the rent, but we must do it. The other good thing about all this is that he will now have plenty of time to sort out all the last bits of the book that need doing. The Universe works in mysterious ways! I am sure many of you will want to write to him, you probably all have his email. I will also give you mine - its bella@isabelladay.co.uk I am happy to chat with anyone who wants to. Thanks for reading and I will keep you posted when I know more tomorrow. Bella«

Done for Nick

Done for BADACTOR, Jean

When the nakago rust stops on a perfect horizontal line before the hamachi, it can be an indication that the nakago has been repatinated.

Provided they are submitted to shinsa and that the repatinating job has been done correctly, there is no reason why it should failed shinsa.

Wanted to subscribe but have to go through Google. I had an account years ago but I forgot the password, it will take a few days till it is fixed. Wish things could be easier today...

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/12646-advices-for-newbies-buyers-rules-of-thumb/

A female NMB member (and member of the French Token) has a rusted yari beyond salvation and would like to know if someone can translate this mei

Very sad news, I can’t believe it. Condolences to his family and friends.

I’ll try to update this batch and batch 5: 25 is sold (Kamiyoshi) 32 mokume is sold 34 is sold 36 is sold

LAST BATCH, BATCH 6 #31 Crude Edo Tachi tsuba € 150 #32 Signed Mokume tsuba. [probably Myochin or Tosa Myochin] € 400 #33 Very good Yoshiro zogan tsuba € 450 #34 Bushu Ito tsuba (Edo area artist) € 375 #35 Edo Tachi or Tosho tsuba [depends on your opinion] € 300 #36 Akasaka € 325.

Here is the last purchase of Vajo

New picture of the Kamiyoshi thanks to my friend Vajo.

Updated prices for batch 5 after a discussion with the heiress (bottom prices) beware that the prices are low: #25 Higo Kamiyoshi €480 #26 Ko-Kinko €225 #27 Mito (small but very good) €325 #28 A Mito related school c. 1800s €480 #29 Mito shiremono €125

Done for Yura

5th BATCH #25 Higo Kamiyoshi €500 #26 Ko-Kinko €250 #27 Mito (small but very good) €350 #28 A Mito related school c. 1800s €550 #29 Mito shiremono €150 #30 Kodai Akasaka Sold Shipping will be added to the above price after going to the Post Office.

Moved to Nihonto, Chuck probably means to say in the topic title that the naginata is for sale and what it is worth, to see if he buys it or not. Topic title is very misleading for the least....

Batch 4 #19 Bushu Tsuba €175 #20 Shoami Tsuba €200 #21 Kyoto Kaganushi tsuba €200 #22 Generic Tsuba €100 #23 Signed Efu ju ??? . €200 #24 Heianjo Sukashi €250

It will come this WE Bruno.

Anyway #16 is sold

Thanks Bob

Second example post by Grey shows how to transform a nagamaki naoshi into a katana.

I did it