Gerald

Thanks for your kind remark . I didn't used the right term . In France old guys say " soudure a la forge " on blacksmithing ... . Bad translation de soudure = soldering in place of welding ... . Excuse my French .

I agree , a lovely tsuba , thank you ! In fact a littlle small part at a layer of the laminated iron start to unsolder . I think it was not at the tsuba " origin " , maybe it's due by getting old and rusty years after years ... .

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A sort of hishi theme iron sukashi tsuba , 67 mm X 65 mm x 5 mm at the seppa dai to 4mm at the mimi . Because it's a long time wearing tsuba forged iron layers kizu appears , and small tekkotetsu on the rim . Mumei Possible muromachi end early edo period ? Maybe Owari tsuba ?

Do you like it ?

Heianjo Yoshiro open work katabami mon ( Sakai clan ) katana sized tsuba Oxalis called « kagami-gusa » in Japan or " miror plant " because it was used to polish bronze miror . And also to make a medicinal unguent . Often used on palaquin ornamentation during heian period . Katabami is became a famous kamon of the bushi class . Sam

Thank you everyone for yours kinds answers . Hamon is not distinct because there is dark rust that cover the blade . Need to polishing . But by looking mindfully the surface of rust tones steel reveal there is a nice gunome hamon ... .

Thanks for the precious advices , but when I was arrived at the presentation topic , someone ask me to post in french for this community... lol Merci pour vos précieux conseils , mais dès mon arrivé sur le forum lors de la présentation , on me demanda de poster en français pour la communauté francophone ... . Ger@ld

What this mei could be ? Quelle pourrait être cette signature ? Ger@ld

Thank you for your kind reply . I would like to know more about restoring this type of tsuba .

Voici quelques photos avant - après , d'une tsuba que j'ai restauré . Elle provient d'un koshirae style tensho de katana . Pour cette tsuba je pensais a une Aizu Shoami , j'aimerai avoir vos avis sur cette petite tsuba de 7,6 X 7,15 cm .

Thank you Rokujiro And Guido Ok for the oil , I haven't got any saya for the moment . My 2 blades haven't been bought at the same place . Guido I agree , thank you I will consider if I plan to match a dai koshirae whith a sho or not . Yes there is a kizu behind the habaki , a sort of ware .

Hello I 've removed the habaki of the katana lastly . On a very little portion behind the habaki it was possible to see a rest of nagashi lines , togi mei , that's hard to determine how many , maybe 9 on one side ... . Marks disappeared when cleaning slowly with alcool and soft cloth , and then coat of vaseline oil with a glass cleaning cloth . Could you tell me please if this files marks on munemachi is a mei ( 5 marks on ura side , 4 on omote side ) or is it to secure the habaki ? Thanks

Merci , désolé pour les photos , problème de redimensionnement corrigé ci dessus . D'autres photos sont prévu . I was thinking daisho meant "big-little" sorry for my wrong vocabulary of the Japanese sword . Pas évident d'enlever l'habaki , j'opterai plus pour une cale en bois tendre que pour une en cuivre . De l'eau bouillante pourrait peut être aider ( pas sur la soie bien sur ) ? Pour la tsuka , quand j'ai eu la sabre en main la 1ère fois , j'étais convaincu que la tsuka était d'origine pour ce nakago ... , même si aparemment un seppa manquait a l'appel , vu les marques dans le nakago ana l'individu qui a tenté de repercer est peut est parti de travers , il espérait peut être repercer à coté pour supprimer le jeu entre la tsuba et le reste .

Thanks , water was to purify the sword and to clean it ... at first I did not want to use modern chemical products ... , maybe I should used sake .. lol . I 've read on polisher book that blade could be cleaned with alcool , ok , and someone tell me I could use acetone ... . Is it true that good polishers use acetone to clean blades ?