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I would be interested in him as I have had zero luck. If you could pm me his contact information I would appreciate it.

Thanks for the pictures from the gomabashi blog as it is one of the online references I came across in my internet searches. I am very jealous of his collection as I have not come across that many quality yanone in my years collecting I would love to see the pics of your mounted Yanone as I have not come across gold being used with Yanones and would love to see how they did it. For those interested the only current quality yanone that I have come across for sale are over in Italy and out of my price range. http://www.giuseppepiva.com/index.php/yanone.html?___store=us&___from_store=it Regards to all for the great discussion and appreciate the pics.

Here are the the pics of most of my collection. Always on the look out for more but not always the budget.

I will post pictures when I get a chance this weekend. I have debated polishing the yanone, none of them are signed so I think I would like to get them polished as most only have light rust and they will display better. Guess I will have to learn how to polish them. D

My main interest is Ya-no-ne and I have been collecting for a few years. I have been searching for someone to polish them but all the sword polishers that I have talked with are either too busy or the cost of polishing would be more than the cost of the yanone. Does anyone have a suggestion as to where I might look for reasonably priced polishing, or who I might contact to get them polished? Regards, David