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  1. vajo
    Trash
  2. vajo
    The shinogi is round and the nakago has some grinding signs. Do what ever you wanted to do, its your sword. But I'm sure it will look terrible after you start to grind it.
  3. vajo
    Someone tried to make a kitchen knife from it. All lines are gone... Captain Dremel is on the bridge
  4. vajo
    Take a piece of weak wood and a rubber hammer. And do it very gently. You handle with a sharp blade. Keep in mind that is dangerous.
  5. vajo
    Real swords as Brian said. But avoid to make pictures with flash. I think that is a nice tsuba. The swords are in bad condition. Try to make better pictures without flashlight on a neutral background maybe in sunlight. I think they will look different then.
  6. vajo
    where did the Adam blade come from? Its older than Edo.
  7. vajo
    You need the opposite side (after the tsuba to the blade). Its bigger than that seppa.
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    Dale there is differnce between a patinated sekigane and hot oiled or painted copper. I think that collectors know and see the difference.
  9. vajo
    Are you sure that the right one is a new tsuba reworked? There are much different spots in the right tsuba. Those iato tsuba are made from zinc alloy. It is not an easy task to make such a sukashi after the modling. And the sekigane is patinated on the right one. When it is reworked someone spent a lot of hours of work on it.
  10. vajo
    Very nice George.
  11. vajo
    Rank looks like So-Cho (Sergeant Major) would fit to the tassel.
  12. vajo
    My wife use the kurubara tsubaki for cosmetics. So fill it in such a small bottle and add choji. That small bottle lasts a very long time. You need only some drops on your blade and whip it without additives cleanex or a microfiber, whatever.
  13. vajo
    put it in a smaller bottle. Like this . Buy a better choji but not one from the pharmacy! Medical choji is not good for metalworks. When you buy sword choji it is mixed ready with other refained oil for fine mechanics. You can mix it with tsubaki 5/1 or 10/1 what you like. If you like the smell make more inside or less what you like.
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    You can fill a little bottle with tsubaki and put some splashes choji oil in it (more liquid and typical smell). Pure tsubaki (camelia) is very thick. A german manufactur offers a mixed camelia oil with some more liquidity (Dictum company). When using pure camellia oil, it tends to dry on the blade if you don't check on it for a while. Btw tsubaki is the best choice for kitchen knifes. That oil is food safe. You can use it for your hair, lipps, and dry skin. Tsuruta san says tsubaki is salad oil.
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    Our Richard George? The man with the best knowledge about photographing tsuba? I chattet with him last. He sold me a a nice tsuba. Oh dear. I didn't think he was that old. In my mind he was in 50s. He often post on facebook too. That is very very sad. My condolences.
  16. vajo
    one of the nicest boshi i've seen so far.
  17. vajo
    Before starting. There are a lots of fingerprints on the blade. Remove them with isopropanol. And oil the blade. Not the nakago!(Tang). Your sword will rust in hours with that fingerprints. Its not stainless - its carbon steel. Rust and scratches will reduce its value.
  18. vajo

    rare silver menuki

    vajo replied to Jack Zacao's topic in Tosogu

    what is that?
  19. vajo
    Good question Jean The blade has plenty of decorative ha-kobore and kirikomi to prove that it is ancient and has been used.
  20. vajo
    See the signature as an addition. Its an old warrior sword. Its very old.
  21. vajo
    I like this sword. Nice itame hada and beautiful gunome midare hamon. This sword needs a good polish to see its beauty. I belive its late muromachi. Kissaki was slightly reshaped but nothing to fear off.
  22. vajo
    Unfortunately, it was 2:00 AM here. It's hard to keep track of when you have to be at work in the morning. Congratulations to Justin – that's a very good prize. Thanks also to Sam for the great show.
  23. vajo
    chinese 住 勝 䒳 仁 (Zhù shèng duǒ rén) but i think it should read "Yoshihito Sumikatsu" proudly made with Dremel.
  24. vajo

    Mass produced or genuine

    vajo replied to MaxT's topic in Tosogu

    Max your picture is not to good to judge. The color of fire gilded gold is different to modern electro plating. You must have more tsuba in hand to see the difference of all that things. There are so many possibilities for metalwork.
  25. vajo

    Mass produced or genuine

    vajo replied to MaxT's topic in Tosogu

    Max when it is painted not fire gilded or patinated it is a cast copy. Sorry. The Japanese are masters in gilding and metalwork. They didn't paint tosogu parts. Only in wartime they painted gunto parts mostly iron. Cooper was patinated with niage. Cheap tosogu from the edo period was lacquered with urushi mostly black. But this is rare to find and now some worthy.
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