Mike W

Yeah, thanks for the picture it made it much clearer to me. I don't really care about the worth, just the authenticity. Now that people have comfirmed it's real, I'm very happy about it. As for the rust issue, I suppose what's done is done. I think that high expensive for restoring it is a little hefty again, but I will try to meet Don Bayney in my search for more infomation about it. As for his restorating efforts, I suppose he did what he felt was right. I suppose nobody could no better, no fantastic forum or internet site all those years ago to help, haha. I suppose I did get it very cheap as well,

Yes, thanks alot Gabriel and everyone for the advise. Yes, that is very expensive. I wouldn't say waste, but I wouldn't spend that money on this blade that I don't really know much about. But thank you for the link, I shall follow the instructions to maintain and look after the blade best I can. Although, I will keep the other links for future blades that I may own of greater value that I want preserved so thank you very much. Regarding the sword, I've found out that the previous owner who had the sword had recieved it for cheap because the blade was rusty. To what degree it was rusted I don't know, but apparently not knowing much about sword restoration used what he knew to restore the sword. While these methods are probably very wrong and should not be done, from the picture you can see that the sword is fairly rust free now so whatever he did it must of worked to some extent. Whether methods of, polishing, dare say sand papering it were used. I can tell you that's it had something done to it. But thankfully from expecting the blade closely, I'm no expert but it doesn't appear too damaged thankfully. But again, since that time it has had no extreme methods of polishing it,

Yes, I'm very intrested in continuing to keep this sword. I will learn what to do regarding polishing, but I know you said there's not a sword appraiser nearby, but is there any related services in London I could utilize? I'd like to get it polished porperly, seeing as you and another noted it has not been polished correctly, and I think it derserves good treatment.

It might have been polished, I haven't done much do it in the 40 years I've had it. I've just whiped it over with a dry white cloth, to get dust, durt and fingermarks off it. Nothing too complex. As for the pictures, I'll try and get better pictures for tommorow. As the sun has gone down now in gloomy old London and I have no good lightbulbs that could be used. Sorry, I'll have them here tommorow.

Thanks alot, I've tried taken more pictures of the Hada and Hamon. But it's kinda hard to see, let alone take a picture of. It's hard to describe, just a straight different coloured (Is that the right word to describe it?) metal. Straight edged, http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0585.jpg is the only one that kinda shows it, you can see the reflection of the camera on the bottom part, but not on the middle or top of the blade. That darkness reflection marks where it is. At least that's my take on it from what I can see, sorry if that's hard to understand.

Hey, I'm a first time user here, and I'm amazed that there's a site like this which can hopefully help me with my curiosity. Now, I bought this Wakazashi about 40 years ago and we both want to know about it. I'm new to photography and not too experienced with swords so please bare with me. The blade's legth is 55cm and I believe is a Wakazashi. When I bought it, it came with 2 Tsuba one that is the set with the sword and one random one. The Blade Collar is moveable, and splits into two peices also, the temper line is straight I think which can be seen on the photos. I was told that the scabbard throat was significant. There's only, what I see as, a one symbol signature on the tang and some symbols ont he original Tsuba. Both of these can be seen in the picture, but just in case I've copied them out onto paper then scanned it in on a seperate picture. Please, I'm desperate to find out something about it through pure curiosity, it's been sitting on display since I got it really from a friend. And I'd like to know more about it. Here are the pictures of it, if there's something you need photographed that I've missed out, please tell me. Sword pictures index: http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff179/SilusStuff/ Symbols drawn out: http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... ymbols.jpg All the rest of the pictures: http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0582.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0583.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0585.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0588.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0582.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0574.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0557.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0572.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0558.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0538.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0537.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0579.jpg http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... CF0581.jpg Sorry for so many pictures, but more photos and infomation is better that too little. Hoping you can help me with this matter, Mike (Edit: On the symbols picture, it says the left signature is on the tanto. Forgive my mistake, I meant Tang. The symbol is on the tang of the sword.)