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  • Birthday 05/26/1974

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    Gendaito, shinsakuto & tsuba

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  1. francois2605
    Excellent, thank you Rohan May I suggest uploading your file to the download section ? This should ensure users can easily find it in the future.
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    @Moley Here's the contact information from the website as seen in wayback machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20241005224806/https://liverpoolmilitaria.com/contact.php on Oct, 5th 2024.
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    The 503 error (SERVICE UNAVAILABLE) indicates that the server where the website is hosted is malfunctioning as if the box had to be rebooted. If the website had disappeared, you would get a HTTP 404 (NOT FOUND) error. The website will probably come back online once the maintainer realizes it's unreachable
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    Excellent tsuba, the end result is really amazing. Hats off, Manuel
  5. francois2605
    Not sure if you already found this about Moritaka. The source is Markus Sesko's Encyclopedia of Japanese Swordsmiths
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    I have a Moritaka with a similar slogan. It's signed "Koteki Mu Kotsu Minamoto Moritaka + Kao" According to the seller: "Muteki Kotsu = patriotic saying & meaning "our enemy has no backbone""
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    Here's one of my favorite tsuba. I love the irregular shape and the texture of the iron.
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    Maxime, when I look up Markus Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan, I can see 4 entries for Hirofusa. and Are you using an old edition of the e-book ? Note: According to ChatGPT, the swordsmith's kanji in the paper are 広総 which would be the 4th entry
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    What a terrible loss. I never thought I would read this news on the forum. I'm shocked. Condolences to his family.
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    Hi @Abaris, Here are some pictures I just took of the renovated koshirae. As you can see it uses mother of pearl and the lacquer used has a green tint. I was really happy with Mike's work. He renovated the koshirae before Brexit was a thing and when it was easy to ship swords to the UK. As far as I remember, the shitodome were made by Mike
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    Mark, you probably already know it if you're into macro-photography: you can greatly boost the magnifying factor of your macro-lens by using those tubes between your lens and the camera body. Example below from this webpage: https://www.canon.fr...ens-extension-tubes/
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    3 different pictures shot with a Canon EF F/1.8 - 100mm macro lens. Mark, using a macro lens is IMO a must-have if you want to properly capture the activity of a sword. You'll see things you can't see with your own eyes
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