mike900

Thank you all for your great responses. You saved me from buying junk. I guess my thoughts were since the yen is supposedly down some deal of the century could be had if I found something out of Japan. I would also like to thank everyone for being polite on this site, I've only posted twice with amateur questions and both times I have gotten great responses.

https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY I've been looking for an affordable sword from around the edo period. How can you tell the age on something like this?

I can see the economy part. When I got it I thought the tsuba on the fake sword was fancier than this one

Was Takehisa a good smith for the time?

Hi, my name is Mike. I am new to the forum and new to the world of swords. After getting burned from a gun show shin gunto I spent more money and bought one from Griffin militaria. This one should be legit. I was wondering if anyone knows what the markings say. Also another question. The tsuka and tsuba fit extremely tight to the blade but when assembled it seems like it's missing a seppa spacer because the ring that houses the release button does not sit flush and the button becomes stuck in the depressed position. Does it sound like it needs another seppa spacer? And sorry if the photos suck couldn't get good lighting to make the marks stand out.