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  1. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Marco too. Hence the reason to not recommend good polishers unless you're sure what we're talking about. As I've said they're getting old and tend to spend the remaining working time of their back and shoulders on good ones only becoming sorta "picky".
  2. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Jesper, I'm not sure both Marco Quadri and Zenon Van Damme still polishes blades. AFAIK Zenon is now more about laquerwork restoration and Marco limited to Stibbert Museum's collection cataloguing and maintenance. Years of hard work in painful poisition are asking their toll. But you can make a try. Avoid *any* italian polisher other then Quadri. There are no more (or not yet...) good ones.
  3. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Fashinating finding. Thanks for the fukuro
  4. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    I've understand Fukuro, was I wrong ?
  5. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    C'mon Piers, now a pic is mandatory...
  6. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Ah, yes, the reference quoted by Hawley I mentioned before. Already on the shelf. Usually one search for the reference number on Hawley to pick up the right smith among the several available and then use the book indicated (TK in this case, Toko Taikan). But probably as far as Toko Taikan goes, Rich's translated list is faster.
  7. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    I would like to purchase the source you've taken the info from. Which one is it, being not Hawley ? Care you to share ? I imagine the scan is TK202 as quoted in the Hawley. I'm interested in cross references so I wonder if your source quoted it too.
  8. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Oh, good ol' Hawleys... (1661 = Kanbun)
  9. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Cheers Brian. If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.
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    Brian, what about to put the link in the articles' section ?
  12. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Assumptions with no basis. Might be simply his opinion about the blade or his own polish. But maybe. Has she a Shingen Tsuba to make you thinking this ? Of course the Sukesada is most likely a Gimei too. And this means what ? That the blade that started this thread was really not the one posted as finished work ? Give thanks to the Lord he's not ruining the real ones and that chineses purchases gimei, (for now). P.S. Guido, don't worry, I'll leave him the last word after this post.
  13. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Oh yes... :lol: I think it applies to import/export to Japan too as the rest of the world. Guess option 2 is the one to be applied. Maybe the owner fears his Masamune gets sequestrated by Imperial Guards because of his status of national treasure.
  14. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    I believe it's another gimei purchased by a chinese and given for polishing to Yan Min. I suppose it's not easy to import/export a sword in China (or simply they don't want to send the blades to Japan for whatever reason) so the residents have to rely on indigenous polishers. This Song Dynasty short sword is very interesting to me : http://www.dixinzhai.com/repair_show.asp?newsid=33
  15. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Indeed. He usually polish chinese blades and has admitted to have not been trained in Japanese polish. Also he wasn't trying to sell the waki (or his services) on SFI but states the sword was already in China. It is becoming interesting...
  16. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Ciao Renato. Jacques is right, but guess you were already aware of this because the info are available on Hawleys. If Guido or Rheinard haven't a rabbit in the hat for you from some rare text, it's hard you'll find something more.
  17. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    China has been *much* less lucky then Japan in preserving indigenous smithing and polishing tecniques, so any attempt to follow the ancient practices has to start from scrap. Is this that's more interesting, the attempt rather then the results. IMHO.
  18. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Surely not a Mukansa job, still I think an harmless effort to improve in Japanese polishing as well. Skipping the silly introduction, here you'll be able to see Min's workshop with stones and some waki in the background... http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XpYcha0Uaf0/
  19. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Here another work by the same polisher, Prof. Min Yan. Han period ring-pomelled sword for the National Museum in Peking if I'm not mistaken : http://bbs.hl365.net/viewthread.php?tid ... 5%B6%D5%AB
  20. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Good books from the "recommended reading" list of this board, enrolement at a nihonto Study society and trips to museums. You'll run out of money but for sure you'll be on the right track to not waste the next 800 bucks. My 2 cents....
  21. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Maybe parts of Kote once possession of somebody important ?
  22. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Hi George. There is a specific section for that now, so guess you can return to frequent this board.
  23. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Hi Stephen. Check now. Just sent a test one.
  24. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    Thanks to all contributors.
  25. Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini
    It's *much* better then most available on e-bay. Thanks
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