micah

you could not shorten it the damage is to far up on the katana

Japanese he is in Japan thats all they can get you cant get chinese blades in Japan

he was trying to compare a kitchen knife and said it was sharper than the sword so he tried to sharpen a nihonto .micah

if you did not see the last one he was not happy it could not cut so he messed up the polish. Micah

that depends on the steel some have more than others considering this is older i would guess it would be less

it could be if you use it for cutting other than that it it is fine you could have it patched by a smith for looks and you said it looked odd for it to be in the kissaki they can be anywhere. Micah

it has red lacquer in the bo hi not something you see every day

looks like a clove hamon but cant really tell

do you have pictures of the mounts

so your saying that my sword was a use sword but not satsuma a lot of photos i have seen of the boshin war they all have my style of wrap like on my sword and i think my blade is way older than 1600 just by looking at it looks like a muromachi period blade but cant tell i know they recycled blades but i will never know thanks. Micah

i know it is beyond repair but does that look like a typical rebellion blade

here are some pics

thats for sure they knew how to wrap back then i think my antique is tighter then any repro i have so i have a question would you think about the blade

as someone said it was probaly made during the the kanbun era 1661-1673 the hamon almost non existent that sword has been polished Quite a few times the ha looks like it is getting thin

more pictures lol i have been working so had hard time getting these posted .micah

the one reason you know how hard it is to to guess were to drill a hole and if you miss you messed up month's work

the problem i have is your asking for somthing that is hard because alot of swords have been shortend one way or another Either had it's mune-machi and ha-machi raised or has been cut and Signature wise you have to look because there are alot of them and that also depends your price as for Original mounts that is very rare for them to Survive for the original sword it is almost Impossible and if you are asking that you want the sword in it's Original Polish that's pretty rare also your asking quite a bit here at this point it is gonna be way over 10k. Micah

so i got the sword today i can say one thing it very beautiful evevy thing is tight no saya rattle which i Expected for a 50 plus year old shirasaya blade is nice for what i paid for it

here is part of the blade it is super thin

well i got the sword it was in a fight a big one most likely the rebellion the saya was cut into the blade has a cut into the spine edge to edge hits it has been through alot as someone Mentioned they used there swords until it was done thats the case with mine it has been used to it's limit it does have a bend near the tip but cool piece of history i got it is poorly made it does have slag Inclusions and a blister and the cuts of course

it looks like it's Edo period

yea any value it had is gone he said he will learn how to sharpen swords with this sword i really hope he does not do it to another one

he did it im about to loose it

here are some more pics.micah

well he thinks the sword is not Finished lol. because he said it was not sharp Of course it's not probly a really old Polish on that sword im going to lose it if he does sharpen it.Micah