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  1. PNSSHOGUN
    Hozon at Juyo prices, what a deal.
  2. PNSSHOGUN
    Brown lacquered sharkskin saya, usually seen on Kai Gunto. Very nice.
  3. PNSSHOGUN
    Any leads on who made Ricks 30k sword, or papers/shinsa?
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    God knows what would happen to it in the hands of Dana White, a sword fresh from polish needs good attention and care or you'll have nice $30,000 rust spots.
  5. PNSSHOGUN
    Looks fine as is, I think folks are too keen on hauling off on new polishes.
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    Email sent
  7. PNSSHOGUN
    It would be great to have a video on Ricks collection without any BS and Mike with him to get all the details and facts straight.
  8. PNSSHOGUN
    Who was the sword made by?
  9. PNSSHOGUN
    Pictures, screenshots of original listings, email logs and professional appraisals will be your best bet. Or send his address to Stephen....
  10. PNSSHOGUN
    Wouldn't be too much to have that handle section redone with competent shaping and good quality samegawa.
  11. PNSSHOGUN
    Cutting pig carcass is actually as close as we can get beyond using cadavers. There are also the extremely realistic medical training "Simbodies" but I think those cost thousands of dollars. Maybe if there are millionaire collectors here they can conduct it, but I will stick to Tatami and Bamboo and modern made swords for the foreseeable future.
  12. PNSSHOGUN
    And who can forget the traditional watermelon and cucumber armour that always stopped the blade nanometers from the skin.
  13. PNSSHOGUN
    Save up, anything you buy at $500 usd will be junk or a mumei wakizashi in poor/no polish. At $1000 you can certainly get something acceptable that you won't regret after doing more research.
  14. PNSSHOGUN
    No, you will always pay top dollar + fighting shill bids AND other collectors for the top quality swords.
  15. PNSSHOGUN
    https://markussesko.com/2014/07/03/tameshigiri-the-history-and-development-of-Japanese-sword-testing/ Excellent book that goes into detail about all of this Jean. Wazamono was granted after a certain number of blades by the smith passed cutting tests and then decided by the Yamada family. If I recall 10/10 blades that executed difficult cuts perfectly by the same smith resulted in Saijo-O-Wazamono ranking, or something along those lines.
  16. PNSSHOGUN
    I think even collectors would be happy to have these for under $1k, the high end production blades don't hold a candle to this sort of work.
  17. PNSSHOGUN
    Powerful looking blade, I'm thinking Muromachi period. Could be a good find.
  18. PNSSHOGUN
    Anyone with Murata-To care to share their examples?
  19. PNSSHOGUN
    The implied original Sori & Nagasa of the blade is a little ridiculous.
  20. PNSSHOGUN
    These are honestly very good, and would fool alot of collectors if sold by a more trusted seller.
  21. PNSSHOGUN
    I'd love to see the eggheads and boffins down at the labs cook up a scientifically formulated and specially designed protective product just for Nihonto. The market is there, especially for museum and high grade collections.
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    I think these are high end chinese swords. The tachi is almost perfect except for the kissaki (they can never get it right) and the polish.
  24. PNSSHOGUN
    His other listing is weird too: https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Japanese-Samurai-Sword/232651766892?hash=item362b203c6c:g:biQAAOSw37Bac9xs
  25. PNSSHOGUN
    I think this is a chinese blade, the Ito also looks suspect. Put together with some original Gunto parts.
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