Xander Chia

Looks like 以群水鋼. http://ohmura-study.net/208.html

Hi Mark, welcome to the board! Before I attempt to answer your questions, I would like to preface that these are my own opinions (that of a beginner) and you should wait for others to chime in. Answer 1: You will find differing opinions on this matter. I will let the more experienced members of the board answer this one. Answer 2: The WW2 mounts/koshirae can be referred to as gunto koshirae and there are several variants. It is fine to mount gunto in traditional koshirae. For long term storage it would be best to leave them in shirasaya. The latter provides better protection from the elements. Where do you usually look for nihonto? You should be able to find gunto in their original mountings within the USD3k-5k range with no issues. This forum has quite a number of links to commercial sites. Under the drop down menu, go to Nihonto Info > Links.

But why would rust only start to form after 180 days?

I would assume that the acid would have been wiped away or at least neutralised by this point no? “Wipe off old oil using tissues and .99 isopropyl, then use tissues and Kurobara oil to coat the blade.”, “Did not change anything to my maintenance schedule.”

Appears to be 義明, Yoshiaki. Possibly Mishina Yoshiaki? Would wait for someone more experienced and reliable to confirm this. Showa era. Are there any other stamps?

Looks like it.

Possibly 九行?

Is this the page you’re looking for? https://www.sho-shin.com/tokai8.htm

Thanks Collin. While I do like the ones I currently have I sometimes find others I’m more interested in.

I’m not gonna lie I have no idea if they’re mass produced or unique items. Neither do I know when they were made. At which point in time does an item become ‘second hand’ rather than ‘vintage’? Here’s a bowl I got last year.

Hello, I would like to ask if being second hand/used affects the value of contemporary items like bowls, cups and pots. And by how much. I purchased a few items and am wondering if the lower prices of second hand items were worth it. Thanks.

Well considering how that was their main(only?) form of producing steel viable for swords, I guess there just was.

I’m not sure if Osafune had a centralised tatara furnace for its smiths or they had to each make their own oroshigane. I don’t know what qualifies as good but here’s a thread I started a couple years back on the topic of tanahagane: I want to clarify that the analysed tamahagane in the thread are from NBTHK’s Nittoho Tatara. The composition of tamahagane from the koto period would most likely be different. As to whether they used recycled metals? That I’m unsure of.

Oops, “吉” seems to be correct, not “亥”. The diagonal line representing a vertical really threw me off.

I think “東野秀亥” is someone’s name. “Higashino” should be the surname, don’t know the rest. “別府市”should be Beppu, a city in Kyushu. That’s all I got, sorry.

On the tang: 備州長船祐定 (Bishu Osafune Sukesada) I’m not too sure about the box but this is my guess: 别府市 魚? 三? 東野秀亥

Wow I can’t believe I missed that. Felt something looked off but couldn’t point out what it was exactly.

I’m not the most knowledgeable in this but from what I can tell, it’s a type 98 shin gunto with a field officer’s tassel and leather combat cover for the saya. In my opinion, blade is signed Kanetsugu, “兼次”. Edit: Just noticed the tsuba is not the regular gunto kind. Can’t really see what it is. The sword also looks quite short. A wakizashi maybe?

While I don’t know the full story, I still don’t think either of you should be insulting each other’s works. All of us here are trying to learn, that includes attempting to create our own items. Whether due to time, money, or whatever other constraints there may be I understand that not everyone can do things 100% traditionally. I am ok with people selling their works as long as the materials and methods are clearly stated. I however don’t agree with how much they are being sold for and have a hard time seeing how the prices are justified. To clarify, this is not the fault of Teddy, as I am sure there are many others who produce inferior works using less traditional methods and selling their items equal to or more than what Teddy is asking for.

I completely missed a few posts on reddit that were of greater importance to the argument that is going on here. Quite a bit to read, will continue after my sleep.

I might be misinterpreting things but doing a quick search on reddit, it seems like there may be a bit of confusion due to Teddy’s earlier reddit posts. Some of them include wrought iron tsuba. The later posts have iron tsuba made from blanks but it wasn’t clearly stated that they are not the same as the ones in the earlier posts. At least that’s what I think is going on.

Deja vu. Kinda confusing as I can’t type the other “直” on my iphone. It automatically switches to the one on the left.

Saw this on Aoi Art today.

I think the main issue Christian was trying to bring up is the fact that Teddy was selling his tsuba. Of course Teddy has also mentioned that he has stopped selling them which was not known beforehand.

Not sure if this qualifies as scary enough but it’s the only somewhat creepy one I own.