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Congratulations. That is indeed an interesting attribution. Love that Sugata.

Tariffs outweigh the currency gap if you're in the US. I would be paying about 9% more than I did two years ago. But it's important to protect the ancient Japanese sword manufacturing base here at home so I persevere.

This is my only moment in life having regret for not having a Facebook account.

You must be very pleased with that polish

Epic achievement.

Indeed it is That is a rather fetching price given the attribution, size, health and fresh polish. If I lived over there I would take a peek!

Lovely polish. That must have been an absolute beast before the suriage. Good luck with the sale!

Your considerations range from $6k USD to $200k? Are you sure you know what you're looking for?

I'm just a newb, but that polish seems solid as it is.

If you put in the time learning and spend 20% of your budget on a papered Nanbokucho blade that you maximized with your gained knowledge, I can all but guarantee you will feel a greater sense of satisfaction because you will feel like you earned it. Then you also have the possibility of a Juyo submission, which i can only imagine feels amazing.

Often in posts like this, someone will ask the question: "what do you like about it?" Someone asked me that when I was looking to buy my first blade, and I was posting random blades that fit the vague criteria I had come up with. I'm glad they did; when i really thought about it, it completely changed my perspective. Personally, for 40k USD I would want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt what I want, and why I want it.

Luminol is used to local/reveal potential blood stains, typically post clean up. OBTI is used to confirm presence of human blood. Both are field tests.

Yes. It's down to personal tolerance, but that's not a big deal. Was hard to tell the extent in the original pictures.

It has a pleasing sugata and as long as you know what you are getting and what the resell prospects are, you could certainly do a lot worse. Is that a large kitae-ware on the ura side up in the shinogi? It's not the end of the world, but as Klee points out, it is a mumei shinto blade to begin with.

What possible reason would UPS have need of your social security number? I'm not giving that to anyone.