lonely panet Posted April 8, 2014 Report Posted April 8, 2014 Hello all, I hope we are all well I have a picture of some activity at the border of the hamon, it looks like sunagashi or inazuma. but the blade in question is a showato with a seki stamp signed Nagamura Kiyonobu. so the question is, am I seeing things or are showato capable of this type of activity? regards Hamish Quote
cabowen Posted April 8, 2014 Report Posted April 8, 2014 Not quite what I would consider sunagashi or inazuma, which usually appears with nie along the formation. This looks like two different bands of steel, one that had higher carbon content and formed nioi and a lower carbon content that didn't... Quote
ROKUJURO Posted April 10, 2014 Report Posted April 10, 2014 Hamish, if it was indeed a forged blade, it would very probably show these effects in several places. Is there more of this to be seen? Quote
lonely panet Posted April 11, 2014 Author Report Posted April 11, 2014 Hi Roku its hard to tell, the blade has staining but all I can see is this single event. does any one know how the average showato was made (ie kawagane ETC) regards Hamish Quote
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