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10 hours ago, vajo said:

For explanation what sunagashi is

Nihonto_uchinoke.jpg

 

From Danny Massey's site www.nihontocraft.com

Chris

 

I was wondering and checked it on the site, you took the picture above sunagashi, thats the uchinoke.

http://www.nihontocraft.com/nihonto_hamon_hataraki.html

 

Sunagashi

Nihonto_sunagashi.jpg.33b4adff936c20b2539a9e174cb85957.jpg

 

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6 hours ago, C0D said:

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Not sure i'd define them sunagashi, but the effect is similar.
This is a wakizashi i made from 1070, water quenched

Excellent job!

 

That is what I was taking about. I have a T10 sword with exactly that kind of sunagashi.

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13 hours ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

Looks like the early large Seki stamp that has been, like yours, found on Gendaito. 

John,

Here is where the Gendaito/Nihonto jargon gets me confused sometimes - are you saying the blade is "traditionally made"? and that the large Seki stamps aren't part of the required stamping on non-traditional blades?  Or are we saying that this blade was made using traditional methods (including water quench) but likely used non-tamahagane, and therefore the Seki stamp?

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To me the blade is traditionally made, madame hada, suguha, sunagashi, well made Mei and file marks. The way the hamon goes around the machi, we'll done boshi etc. The stamp is the odd thing on this sword. That is why I asked the question. This is the first sword that I bought - purchased in 1976.

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51 minutes ago, b.hennick said:

sunagashi

Well, if Chris is right, that this isn't possible (nearly impossible?) with any steel other than tamahagane, then this supports the theory that the large Seki stamp is Gild stamp that has nothing to do with the regulatory stamping system.  Hmmmmm.

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No..not at all. We need to stop seeing  handful of rare exceptions and throwing researched and accepted theories out the window.
We have no proof this is tamahagane, and only a theory it is water quenched. I've seen Showato with such activity. Heck....look at Manuel's sword. Do you call that Gendaito?
Don't let the exceptions drag you down a different path.

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And I think it is an urban myth. You can have activities with other steels than tamahagane. The activities are created by the temperature, the water quenching AND the fact the metal is folded. I think that if this condition isn’t there, you can’t have activities.

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Hmm,

i think we have no clue what is meant by full traditional. If seki stamped showa-to shows all signs of a gendai-to what is the point that they are not gendai-to. I would really like to learn this.

I can see if a sword is oil quenched.

I can notice if a sword is made from mill steel.

 

But if you see martensit and perlit structures and folded steel layers, the hada and all the nice things we know from nihonto. Why they are Gun-to stamped.

I have no clue.

 

Mostly we see it on a sword that it is not gendaito. Stamped or not. But i didnt see a showa-to that looks like a gendaito.

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