Old blade ?

[Richard Thomas]

Hey Paul, 

A couple of things, where are you in Aus? Andrew is in Victoria and is fully traditionally trained Togishi, and a good bloke, so if you are local to him, may be an option … he’s very good at Kantei!

 

On your last comment just be aware when they shorten a blade it will be from the tang up. A boshi will disappear generally due to damage in kissaki, and subsequent ‘restoration’.. no boshi = fatal flaw. Only really forgivable in truely old blades of historical significance (or if you don’t care  ) … on the other hand, boshi that are ‘just hanging in there’ or much thinner than the rest of the hamon are quite common as the kissaki cops more punishment during a swords life and often needs more steel removed during polish to rectify damage ..
 

Nakahara’s book, Facts and Fundamentals of Japanese swords has a few pages on this .. 

cheers Rich

[Chrometank]

11 minutes ago, Richard Thomas said:

Hey Paul, 

A couple of things, where are you in Aus? Andrew is in Victoria and is fully traditionally trained Togishi, and a good bloke, so if you are local to him, may be an option … he’s very good at Kantei!

 

On your last comment just be aware when they shorten a blade it will be from the tang up. A boshi will disappear generally due to damage in kissaki, and subsequent ‘restoration’.. no boshi = fatal flaw. Only really forgivable in truely old blades of historical significance (or if you don’t care  ) … on the other hand, boshi that are ‘just hanging in there’ or much thinner than the rest of the hamon are quite common as the kissaki cops more punishment during a swords life and often needs more steel removed during polish to rectify damage ..
 

Nakahara’s book, Facts and Fundamentals of Japanese swords has a few pages on this .. 

cheers Rich

Great information Rich, much appreciated,  I am in Jervis bay NSW.

Thanks for the tip on the book, I am used to getting a little technical with firearms but this Nihonto is a whole new level  ! Apart from getting my head around new terms, most of them are in Japanese. old dogs new tricks  !! I really do appreciate all the help I am getting here.

All the best

Paul 

[Richard Thomas]

5 hours ago, Darkcon said:

P.S I like the tempering part a lot. I see yakidashi (the beginning of the tempering part) so it could be a Shinto piece... or it's just the photos 😜

IMHO, I don’t see yakidashi in Paul’s blade .. unless I’m missing ‘adding’ something  

I do see it in Bryce’s sword…

 

Paul, Jervis bay .. tough place to hang out 😂… 

If you do decide to get into this fascinating subject , a couple of great books to start with would be the Nakahara mentioned before, and The connoisseur’s book of Japanese Swords by Nagayama.

 

Rich

[Chrometank]

21 minutes ago, Richard Thomas said:

IMHO, I don’t see yakidashi in Paul’s blade .. unless I’m missing ‘adding’ something  

I do see it in Bryce’s sword…

 

Paul, Jervis bay .. tough place to hang out 😂… 

If you do decide to get into this fascinating subject , a couple of great books to start with would be the Nakahara mentioned before, and The connoisseur’s book of Japanese Swords by Nagayama.

 

Rich

Thanks Rich, I can feel it drawing me in !! It looks like a hobby you where you couldn't learn it all.

I will look those books up, cheers 

[NewB]

12 hours ago, Richard Thomas said:

IMHO, I don’t see yakidashi in Paul’s blade .. unless I’m missing ‘adding’ something  

I do see it in Bryce’s sword…

 

Paul, Jervis bay .. tough place to hang out 😂… 

If you do decide to get into this fascinating subject , a couple of great books to start with would be the Nakahara mentioned before, and The connoisseur’s book of Japanese Swords by Nagayama.

 

Rich

 

This is what I saw.. 

 

J.

[Rivkin]

I now see its a light reflection. Anyway it has been considerably shortened.

[NewB]

Now that I look with sober eyes, I concur. 

 

Thank you!

 

J.

[Chrometank]

Hi, hopefully I am not out staying my welcome,  I just have a question about my second blade,  I see wavy lines that I assume is the grain ? I also see a hamon, would this be a WW2 blade made by hand ?

All the best 

[Rivkin]

Probably someone late, shinshinto or later imitating Hosho. Pure masame, high contrast, very uniform like drawn lines and absolutely no ji nie - very late work.

[Chrometank]

57 minutes ago, Rivkin said:

Probably someone late, shinshinto or later imitating Hosho. Pure masame, high contrast, very uniform like drawn lines and absolutely no ji nie - very late work.

Thank you  Rivkin,  much appreciated  !

[Promo]

Bit late to this thread, I assume you bought it in this auction:

 

There are some comments to various blades from this auction in this thread, maybe therefore helpful for you too.