What do you think of these hamon?

[cabowen]

Take a look at these...There is something very unique about how they were made....Any guesses as to what that may be?

 

[John A Stuart]

Yakiire with no tsuchioki? John

[Gabriel L]

I read John's comment before your original question, Chris… after that, and based on another clue, I cheated… really amazing.

[cabowen]

Yes, seems it has already been discussed.

 

Sugita san was convinced that this was the original technique used to harden Nihon-to. Seeing his results in comparison to Ichimonji and the like, it would seem he was on to something...

 

When you have control over your materials, temps, and time, you can work with them to make these kind of hamon appear naturally. Neat stuff.

[John A Stuart]

Not enough discussion. It may have been one of the original methods. I would suspect certain schools had their special techniques. John

[kaigunair]

any links to working videos? seems like all the old ones were taken down...

[runagmc]

I aslo remember seeing the smith who works with the Kashima sister's/Usagiya (art name, Keiun?) using clay, but only on the back, and without the X lines going perpendicular (name?)... see here, http://www.ksky.ne.jp./~sumie99/yakiire.html... I'll have to reread the site, but I think he was producing choji hamon, and utsuri, this way...