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raynor

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  1. Spittle is bad, if caught early a bit of bone or antler and great care and patience rubbing on the rust spot can save you a costly restoration. Even better, as mentioned - talk away from the blade.
  2. I am going to have a copy of this shipped to my house in Norway, should make spending the dark cold post Christmas holidays there extra fun this year! Lovely that books of this level is made for such a niche subject, hat off to Mr. Pechalov.
  3. Also the things wrong with and around the bohi is another red flag.
  4. Are you sure its lacquer and not renaissance wax or something similar?
  5. raynor

    True Muramasa

    Also Kaga style habaki, when I think Muramasa's school worked out of Ise? The alarm bells are a cacaphony at this point.
  6. A fool and his money are easily parted. Yikes that is one abused piece of steel.
  7. So far I've spent less then $3000 on a sword. My top limit would be south of $10000. It would really take a special blade to get me to consider that sum. Past that sum you have more sensible things like getting cars, a garage, new kitchen or a nice trip.
  8. I bought my very first pair of menuki from katanacentre, a while ago. While they are far from masterpieces I am fairly confident they are genuine, but will always bow to more learned opinions. https://imgur.com/a/7q4Awsw Suspicious with the swords. Someone who is in the business of selling these items are usually somewhat knowledgeable and then none of this would make sense.
  9. Birds, kiri leaves, in general trees, animals and plants. Some dragons are appealing too.
  10. Unrelated but have anyone gotten their origami from the Tampa Shinsa earlier this year?
  11. I saw king Tuts treasure in Egypt years ago. While I do not remember that dagger I do remember other pieces especially the mask. It is a lot smaller then you expect. To this day it remains the most impressive work of art I've seen. The craftmanship is incredible. I would not put it past the ancient Egyptians to have knowledge of iron hardening back then despite what modern theories say. If anything archeology worldwide keeps revealing and rising the bar on the knowledge and skills of the ancients.
  12. Blade steel looks oily and the hamon very controlled.. high quality koto bizen work maybe?
  13. Just curious, is your origami from the Tampa Shinsa held earlier this year? Been wondering when they start sending those out.
  14. From my limited knowledge I agree on the Chinese assumption. No file marks on the nakago, fresh cut rather then chiseled signature points to a modern Chinese reproduction.
  15. Fittings aside, the lack of work and aged rust on the nakago and sloppy signature are big red flags. As said a very obvious modern fake. Depending on the balance it can be fun for slicing air in the back yard. Never try to cut anything harder then air when the workmanship is questionable.
  16. Wouldn't surprise me if besides the sword stump it's all rayon and plastic, what with the amount of gloss it might as well be.
  17. So riding in a car you apparently have to choose from death by cancer or crash these days.
  18. Great that the blade is safe, George. If you do not mind, I and probably a lot of other people too would appreciate some photos next time you take it out, especially of the small polished area that was done? Cheers.
  19. Had some very strange experiences with USPS. A cople of false signatures by mailmen and attempted thefts. Helped signing up for informed delivery but last month paid over a hundred dollar for a five day max Express package to Norway to get there by May 17th holiday celebrations, it got there two weeks late after a round trip to Portugal(!) Good you got your tsuba back, accidents happen in every profession but sometimes the lack of standards are almost supernatural.
  20. Looks good and all fingers still intact? You got talent!
  21. I agree on the bird, I have a set of menuki with two sparrows on each about the same size as the bird on the tsuba and all four have well made legs. The mountains are a clear break from the usually serene distant feature they serve, but in hand does not appear badly carved and with some purpose. Maybe a familiar mountain to the maker? I do lean towards the lesser draughmanship tho, considering the legless bird. It comes together as quirky, but attractive as you said. I know the tsuba is not a masterpiece, but as it is my first tsuba featuring different techniques besides just a hammered plate, inlay and dot inlays I hope to learn from it.
  22. That's one thing that puzzled me when I started collecting, using uchiko makes no sense unless you have some specific heavy cleaning to do. No other swords have a similar regime attached to rub the blade with an abrasive. I know it's been said some polishers intend for uchiko over time to finish a polish but still. Just quality microfiber cloth and oil makes so much more sense this century unless you are cleaning the blade after a rigorous day on the battlefield.
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