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  • Birthday 05/26/1974

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  1. francois2605
    Here's one of my favorite tsuba. I love the irregular shape and the texture of the iron.
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    Maxime, when I look up Markus Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan, I can see 4 entries for Hirofusa. and Are you using an old edition of the e-book ? Note: According to ChatGPT, the swordsmith's kanji in the paper are 広総 which would be the 4th entry
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    What a terrible loss. I never thought I would read this news on the forum. I'm shocked. Condolences to his family.
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    Hi @Abaris, Here are some pictures I just took of the renovated koshirae. As you can see it uses mother of pearl and the lacquer used has a green tint. I was really happy with Mike's work. He renovated the koshirae before Brexit was a thing and when it was easy to ship swords to the UK. As far as I remember, the shitodome were made by Mike
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    Mark, you probably already know it if you're into macro-photography: you can greatly boost the magnifying factor of your macro-lens by using those tubes between your lens and the camera body. Example below from this webpage: https://www.canon.fr...ens-extension-tubes/
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    3 different pictures shot with a Canon EF F/1.8 - 100mm macro lens. Mark, using a macro lens is IMO a must-have if you want to properly capture the activity of a sword. You'll see things you can't see with your own eyes
  10. francois2605 started following Veritasium posted a video about nihonto and Macro photography of blades
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    Indeed, there are some inaccuracies and overstatements however the technical explanations regarding the metallurgic aspects are worth watching I think. It's the first video I've seen explaining so well what happens at quenching time.
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    Not sure if some of you follow this channel (that I personally love), the guy posted a video about the forge of Japanese swords: Haven't seen yet but given the usual quality of his videos...
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    What are you supposed to answer if you regularly buy but never sold ?
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    Same here. This kyu-gunto tassel is really a work of art.
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    From what I understood, the numbers painted on the nakago usually never match the ones on the fittings. If your sword fits inside the koshirae, it has to be original. Each sword being unique, it's almost impossible to find another koshirae for a given sword. Very nice pictures
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    Have you checked Google for SVG files ? There seems to be a lot of scalable files available for free. For instance: https://commons.wiki...panese_family_crests Unless you want something custom ?
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