johnash1958

Sooner delete me

And you wonder why with comments like that you so called experts should be a bit more helpfull

It’s one that was given to me I posted before Xmas the smith who made it was Eyo ju Miyoshi Nagamachi late edo period. it was in a bit of a state and not being able to afford a professional polish I actually did it myself and I’m very pleased with it .

Hi I showed pictures of a blade that was given to me last year a small tanto which now I know as a kaiken of the late edo period. It’s now polished to show the grain and folds in the steel I would be interested in any comments thank you john

Hi I’m John Ashworth from Frome Somerset uk, I’m 61 and a former hgv fitter. Unfortunately I had to give up that life around 2000 because I developed rheumatoid arthritis along with a few other things as a result of this I had my 14th operation summer this year. when I had to stop work I went stir crazy for a while and watched 25 hours of tv a day after about 3 months I had to get out find something to do I already fished but this became hard work so one day in my shed I made myself a knife being a fitter I knew about working steel so it didn’t come hard. Well a few people asked me to make them one which I did and after kitting out friends and family who wanted one and it was something I could do virtually everything sat down I knew I wanted to go further in this what was a hobby and had a bigger shed built made myself a 2x72 belt grinder made a forge and I was away . A few weeks ago someone gave me a beat up blade which I knew was a Japanese tango type knife short but I new absolutely nothing about them so I took it apart found markings on the tang and this is the story so far I have posted pictures of it and had some very good answers thank you for having me so to speak John Ashworth.

Hello I’m john ashworth I was told to join this forum by a friend to see if someone could help me find out when this sword was made we know the smith as above but not sure about the rest here are some pictures of the tang thank you any help will be appreciated john a.