Logan09

Thanks for the replies! And I will post on the translation section. It's been a very long time since I've been on here.

The first one(With Habaki attached) measures 33-5/8 overall, with a 25-5/16 blade. The second one measures 33-3/8 overal, with a 26.5" blade. They were all in gunto mounts. They had the Tsukas and Sayas, but missing almost everything else. The one that doesn't have the habaki on it actually has one(nice copper habaki with silver foil overalay) I'm hoping someone can read the Mei. If more pictures are needed let me know. I can try to get better quality ones. Thanks in advance.

I receive the same thing(Except my thread was deleted instead of moved)

I noticed that right away when he sent me the pictures. It does look like o-kissaki from the pictures.

Woke up today, and it was gone. It was on eBay, and someone bought for his asking price. O well. I will keep looking. Thanks for everyone's help. I'm sure in the future I will post more swords. Also, as someone mentioned before I see a couple wakizashi's for around $1000, in good polish, w/ NBTHK papers. I think if I don't find anything I might go that route in the future. Even though there wakizashi's

Thanks for your replies. I definitely don't have $600 burning a hole in my pocket, but Its getting harder, and harder to find a sword for a good price. By the way he only says the total length of the blade is 36 1/2" so my guess is the blades roughly 27"-27 1/2". I already told him that I will probably pass on the blade, especially after he wont disassemble the tsuka to take a picture of the nakago. BTW The only way I would attempt to polish a nihonto is if I paid under $80 for it.

HI What do you think of this? He wants $600 for it. Do you think it would be worth it? He wont take the handle off to see if there's a signature(I should have told him he cant do anymore damage to it). Judging by all the rust, and looking at the 1st picture I can see how it got there(How he's holding it) I really want to get a nihonto. All I have is modern made swords. I actually really want to find a bad blade for cheap, and redo it. But all the "Un-educated"people on eBay bid $100's of dollars on a blade that shouldn't be worth more then $50. Thanks.. -Logan-

Wow! Doesn't look like it just fell, tsuka looks like it exploded! At least it didn't fall "face first" damaging the kissaki, or breaking the tip. I had a Paul chen katana that fell out of the saya(It was to loose) and it landed on the tip breaking it off.

Maybe to look like blood? Hence "Blood Groove" I honestly have no idea :?

Thanks. I had it on ebay, for $60 and no one bought it. So, in this case I will just keep it, plus, it looks good on my sword. Thanks for everyone's help.

Thanks for the reply. I would rather just keep it then. I believe I paid $60 for it about 4-5 years ago. And $60 is what I was looking to get for it but I had no one interested.

Bringing this back from the dead. I was offered $40 for. Should I take it? Or just keep it? Thanks.. -Logan-

Thank you for you reply. I have a good feeling someone "dumb" will have it past $100 so I wont even bother. I will just save my money for something in good polish. Thanks again..

I was wondering if someone could tell me what this sword might be worth? Would it be worth buying? http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Wakizashi-Japanese-sword_W0QQitemZ180412873143QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAsian_Antiques?hash=item2a0171f9b7&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 I would like to buy it just to mess around w/ it, i.e trying different polishing techniques. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.. -Logan-

Thanks for the reply. Also do you know if the whole mei reads shoami, or just the 2nd and 3rd mei? I've seen them with that but not the top one? Thanks..

HI New here. I had this tsuba for a while, its a wakizashi tsuba signed shoami I believe. I was just wondering if someone could tell me if its real, if its worth anything, and also what the full signature says? Thanks. -Logan-