Rog

Thank you Brian. As you obviously perceived, I just want to double check the integrity of the business rather than get burned.

Thanks Stephen, I did a quick search and did not find anything relevant, might have missed that one - I'll look again. P.S. thanks for the reminder about the nail, I've got one that needs to get pounded asap - - - OUCH ! ! !

Re: http://new.uniquejapan.com/home/ Looking at a sword on this site that I might purchase; but, want/need to know about them prior to sending fund$. If anyone has done business with them I'd greatly appreciate your input - if need be a private message can be sent to: michelesangel@yahoo.com Regards & "thanks",

Derek - yes I was trying my hand a little humor, hope it came off as such. But, thanks for your reply. Although admittedly I am a complete novice at this I was aware of the term and meaning. Chris - I appreciate you referral, especially since I have used his services in the past. He performed a polish on my personal favorite wakizashi. If I chose to, I could shave with it and have the smoothest shave ever. I have a scar on my right thumb to prove it. Foolishly rolled my thumb over the edge while wiping it off and paid the price immediately ! ! !

Not sure if I'd want to use it to prop a window open, then I'd just wind up spending the whole day killing flies and mosquito's with my wakizashi ..... although I certainly could use the practice !

My most recent rescue acquisition was obviously not cared for in any kind manner. It was headed for a most certain death at a steel scrap yard. This sword of little notable significance and produced by as yet an unknown smith no doubt was carried into battle by its owner and quite possibly with that soldier at the time of their death. With that in mind I feel that it is owed a great deal more regard than it has been given, and I'm curious as to what others feel would be inclined to do with such a sword at this stage of its life.....

Gabriel, no apology necessary - though I gladly accept. I certainly hope that someone is able to find more information regarding this sword and the smith. At this point I'm going to move on to over to the General Nihonto Related Discussion section, and place another post with an issue as it relates to this sword. Thanks as always to all.....

Another kind soul has given me this translation 必 勝 武 三 郎 助 治 Hisshō Take Saburō Sukehara That would translate as "Certain Victory, Take Saburō Sukehara" where Sukehara is the smith name, Saburō is the smith's secondary name / "third son," and Take is the family name. Thought some might like to see this, and perhaps weigh in if they see something different.

Here is what I hope is a photo with an easier viewing of the mei - - - (used the old baby powder technique)

It most definitely was not treated with any great care. I'm guessing that it had been in it stored spot for many, many year - quite possibly from the day it was brought back and placed there... Took another photo of the mei in hopes of clearing it up a bit. I'm going to get the rest of my camera equipment out and try to shoot each character separately and load them later.

Now I know I'm having a really really bad computer day - - - you are correct that it is a Katana - 27" (and I knew that even as I typed differently) and with that said it's obviously time for some much needed eye-shut................ will try again at a later time and date!

I'll definitely check this out - resizing is something I rarely have to do, so I'm not real familiar with that process. Thanks Rog Ok, so here goes trying to post a few after resizing with IRfanview -

I'll definitely check this out - resizing is something I rarely have to do, so I'm not real familiar with that process. Thanks Rog

Interesting ! ! ! Guess I'm just not having a good day at the 'puter... I signed out of the site and then came back onto here and clicked on the link and it shows my email address all filled in - - - they must have down their "Cookies" thing-a-mi-jig-thing presto-pop-o there it is stuff, in any event I've edited my original post and added the email address. Thanks folks - sorry for the confusion. Mow I just have to figure out how to get my photo's down to spec.