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It's definitely worth giving Bill Tagg a call: http://www.liverpoolmilitaria.com/ Thanks Peter, I appreciate your suggestion and I'll look him up.

Thank-you John and Steve. I appreciate your assistance. John, I've PM'd you. Thanks again David

Thank you Geraint, I really appreciate your assistance. I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the generous and genuinely compassionate assistance that has been provided so quickly by all of you. You have all been a tremendous help and I am truly grateful. I'm now on the way to getting things sorted out properly and I can only thank all of you again who have helped to make that possible. What a magnificent community. David

Thank-you Brian.

Thank-you Stephen C and Brian for your support and kind words Yes, I'm UK based, about 20 miles north of London, but am happy to travel anywhere to get things sorted out. This is a totally unexpected series of events and I would be grateful to anyone who can help me. I'm sure that in the future I'll be able to start over again, but in the meantime the needs of others must come first. Thank-you David S.

Hi all, Haven't been using the forum much recently due to unfortunate events. I won't go into details, as it's not the sort of thing that people want to read on a forum, but two deaths in my family have left me in a lousy place and also left me with some not insignificant associated costs. As a result, I'm having to find ways of meeting those costs and that, unfortunately, means that my swords have to go. My concern is this. I want to be absolutely certain of what I have before I advertise my swords for sale as I don't wish to mis-describe or incorrectly value anything. To that end, I wondered if someone would be prepared to meet with me to look at my small collection and correct me on anything that I might have got wrong. I am very happy to travel, that's not a problem. I just need some fairly quick help. I appreciate that this may be a wholly inappropriate post, and I may have posted it in the wrong place. If so, I apologise profusely, but I'm just a bit knocked about at the moment and need to get things sorted out. Thank-you for any help. David S.

Ah..I never thought about not using oil, simply because every article I've read about blade care tells you to leave a clean blade with a very fine coating of oil. I no longer use Uchigumori as I hear it can scratch a blade, and anyway, mine don't get 'dirty' as they're not handled at all and reside most of the time in their sayas. I usually remove and re-oil twice a year. But not oiling them is a very valid point! They don't live outdoors and I never touch the blades with anything other than Japanese paper, so I can't see that they're likely to become damaged. Once I've made myself some decent sword stands, I'll display them out of their sayas, but boss-lady doesn't like them and I currently have to slink off to a hidey-hole to look at them. Ho hum I live in Hertfordshire, England, Jean. A Yari's throw from London.

Sorry. Making changes now.

I see from the Aoi Art website that they suggest the use of Choji oil is not a good idea as it promotes oxidisation....machine oil being preferred. Should I now be considering thoroughly removing it from my blades and using sewing machine oil? If I do so, there could remain the possibility of cross-contamination between the oils, and I don't know if that could be a problem. Should I use something like surgical spirit to remove all the choji before re-oiling? :?

Hi Pete, thanks for your post. Yes, I agree...no sense in waiting, so I'm going to renew my membership to the Society immediately.

One ticket please....first class.

Thank-you George. Yes, I can see that this is a very helpful forum and I will be posting a few bits very soon. Glad to be aboard! :D

Thank-you Denis! Yes, I will rejoin next year.

Thank-you sai jo saku

Thanks Alex....looking forward to it! Best wishes David