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Pretty hamon but what style?


stevel48

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Hi Steve, 

For me, not toranba, but if you Google “Tsuda Sukehiro toranba” and you’ll find some examples of his blades that illustrate that form of hamon.

 

With a lot of swords the hamon will consist of a variety of shapes and elements so it isn’t easy to say simply “Suguha” or “Notare”.

 

In this sword I’m seeing irregular large, squarish choji and large round Choji elements (with I think some nioi kuzure) and there may be other elements that sharper eyes will see, but that ought to suggest a possible school to you. 
 

Hope that helps a little. 

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1 hour ago, vajo said:

Steve i like the hamon, but i think it is badly polished and treated with acid.

Interesting theory. I dont see a lot of the damage or discoloration you might see with acid. David Hofhine is evaluating. Here is the steel for more information.

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Steve the shinogi is polished round and the shinogi-ji looks like milk and not like a mirror. You see also a great dark long shadow along the shinogi which comes from an amateur polish. But this is not the theme of your thread. You ask for the hamon. I think it would look total different if the polish were good. So it is difficult to make a statement about the hamon because it is treated with acid. 

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3 hours ago, vajo said:

Steve the shinogi is polished round and the shinogi-ji looks like milk and not like a mirror. You see also a great dark long shadow along the shinogi which comes from an amateur polish. But this is not the theme of your thread. You ask for the hamon. I think it would look total different if the polish were good. So it is difficult to make a statement about the hamon because it is treated with acid. 

You might be on the right track now that i study it.  It'll be off to the polisher soon to see what can be done. This is my 5th nihonto and i might have made a mistake for the first time in 10 years. Luckily it was only in the hundreds of dollars . I still feel it will turn out well after polishing.

 

  I do have some gems though. Found in deplorable shape from WW2 and sent to Japan for restoration. Papered as Yamato no kami Sukemasa NTHK.

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32 minutes ago, DoTanuki yokai said:

I would go for a yokoyama school smith but  your pictures show no hada or the boshi so its a wild guess because of the hamon and the tight nioi guchi.

Its a tight itame and the polish is too poor to see the boshi. I'll get to the school and smith after polish. Certainly a nihonto and probably shinto. More study tonight to place the era based upon sugata, jigane and shinogi/ji.

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