Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini

Oooook... Full "western way" tea set for 6 people (22 pieces), mint conditions...

Piers, I hate you... :lol:

This is the real problem here. Japan has many (if not most) of the country built in a safe way (as much as the word "safe" can be used for such events). On the contrary, in Italy to find an inhabited house that was built 300 years ago is very common in the smaller cities and towns and in historical centers. Also most of the "new" buildings were built in an hurry either after WWII or during the economic boom periods. Hence hospitals and schools of the '80s crumbled while many houses of the '500 are still standing. A law to increase the safety of buildings in the afflicted area has been delayed 3 times in the last 10 years. Many of the people would have been killed anyway, but if only 20% could have been saved with imrpovements would have meant 44 human beings still with us, at the current account of casualties (228 + 11 missing).

Yes, very sad to watch TV...

Franco, if i can be of any help, don't hesitate to contact me via e-mail.

Jean, all, I thank you for your concern in the name of italian people. I too live away from the center of that earthquake, but they are quiet common all around Italy (but the northern alluvial plain I live in). The toll of dead is even more harsh if we think that just a few days before a scientist gave a strong warning producing alarm in population. He got a legal action and laugh from istitutions. He said this on April 1st but evidently he was serious. And right...

Pseudo-historical explanations are hilarious too. I ask myself if the site is registered in Japan...

Just asking myself which menuki will be mounted on the grass set... Really nice.

Robert, of course the fact that the hamon might be not visible on an out-of-polish blade's pictures doesn't mean it isn't there and that the yakiba might be a faked one doesn't mean it always is. Guess the matter is just about the possibility of a correct judgement, not the quality of your blade. Chances are that your blade turns out nice. Best luck and let us know.

Much bigger, and it should not be abused for trying to establish the "actual dominant alpha male". reinhard

Guess the problem is the possibility to watch at a cosmetic "hamon" made by polisher(?) instead of a really hardened edge, edge that itself might also be just oil quenched being of no real interest. Bad pictures/conditions of the blade doesn't help a lot in judgement. To avoid any misundertanding and strumentaaization I have to add that my statement is just a general suggestion and is not intended to be applied to any currently discussed sword.

EDIT missed to check the original thread on the french forum. Sorry, Mod you can delete this post. Patrik, a picture (if available) of the blade would help a lot to be posted on other national fora as well.

Ted, this looks interesting...

And less expensive if the result of the date is getting married...

Lucky one. Stopped with that before electronic injecton entered the world of cars, go figure... :D

six matching numbers on a lottery ticket!!!!!!! Here in Italy with Lotto most of the time 5 are enough... :D

Piers, have you run out of money or simply too busy to post new items ? :D

Next time we'll call CSI... :D Fantastic...

Eric, if you knew me a little you wouldn't be so optimist :lol:

Second and last try, promised. Here looks upsidedown to me, but might be challinging my daughter in mountainbike is beginning too hard to me : .jpg]

Right, missed to check the "Kotetsu and Kiyomaro" catalogue.

IMHO, John is right (first answer given in the topic).

Hi Eric. Thanks, I already got that to place the first stroke of the first kanji to indicate where to drill the mekugiana plays no role here and consequently also what could appear a little rightmost-displacing of the whole gimei. As I've not read the article what I would rather have feedbacks on, from you and/or other knowledgeable people is about the second part of my reply concerning the feeling the rightmost mei gives in front of the left one. My reply about calligraphy, fluency and dimensions really isn't a good explanation of my feeling but as I've participated to gain knowledge need to know if I got it right and anyway it would be a good occasion to explain things to others at my expenses (with some fun for somebody :lol: ). The rightmost one, as said, shows some strokes/kanji that even look better then the Shoshin and I got it and Brian as well, I think. But just some. Was it the Shoshin most or all should have appeared better. In other words, the leftmost one looks more "homogeneous" in writing to me, even if not "nicer". Second reason not well explained is the dimensions matter. I think we're looking at pictures not *exactly* of the same scale, so my reply about dimensions can be misinterpreted. As already said, to get the right lenght of a stroke is hard for a faker, so I assumed that the reason because of in the rightmost signature the strokes are more distanced and possibly longer ,giving an appearance of unbalancing, is because of the faker was carefully watching at the direction and shape of the strokes/kanji trying to show them the best way possible and making them a little bigger and more distanced that the leftmost one that looks more natural. I wouldn't be able to spot these differences if not with side by side pictures, and possibly is just a case of "Scotoma" (can't translate but in italian means something "the eye see what the brain want) and I simply got luck. I assume this is no rule in any way and just works in this case, but I really would like to have feedbacks to learn something. Thanks.

Of course you're right and that's because I made the whole process without checking books as in the spirit of the matter, differently from others that got wrong details *notwithstanding* using books, possibly because their library is not so good as supposed.

Guess this is what the matter is all about. To have both side by side might give you chances, but hardly one at a time. A reply not yet given is that the Gimei has been spotted by the details of the blades that aren't showed. Would be a great lesson :lol: