Misterbovigoren

I just want to interject that I've learned quite a bit from all of your responses and I appreciate everyone taking the time to address their concerns and make their opinions known. You are all helping me on my quest for knowledge and for that, I am sincerely grateful.

That makes sense, I will definitely take that into consideration. Thank you for sharing your experience with me!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Would it be alright with you if I pass this message along to him?

For what it's worth, I don't see any of you as elitist. You are doing a wonderful and noble thing here with this forum. I appreciate you all very much. Thank you for lending me your ears and minds.

That is on my agenda to do, I just already have a blade that is rusted and needs a good polish.

Thank you for the information! I reached out to a couple of togi that I found online, I can't remember exactly who since it has been a few years, but they all either didn't reply, or flat out told me "No, the signature is probably fake" and wouldn't take on the project, hence, me finding Mr. Boomershine. All I knew about him at the time was that some people gave him really good reviews and he was a gentleman to speak to so I had him work on the blade for me. Any recommendations for who to reach out to for a future project I have? Thanks again for everything!

I'm afraid I don't understand the first bit of your comment. As far as the last two sentences, you're saying I can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear? I was never under the impression that this sword was very valuable, or desirable, beyond something for me to look at and study. I just wanted to know more about it. Thank you for your input a and guidance!

I apologize good sir 😅

Hello Stephen! I hope this is helpful, thank you for the advice.

Unfortunately this time slot falls under "Dad's Turn" 😂

Understood, thank you for your input! I will work on that tomorrow when I am more fully awake, right now it's 3:00am here and I'm feeding my newborn 😅