SwordGuyJoe Posted November 9, 2012 Report Posted November 9, 2012 All, There are a few reasons to post this: 1. Every sword I buy from Ed at Yakiba.com does nothing but exceed expectations! I recently purchased the Masafusa from him. A bit of a flyer as I never really expect much from seki smiths (http://yakiba.com/Kat_MasaFusa.htm) and even before "cleaning" it up it was a nice blade. 2. Wow --- look at this amazing blade! This is in the heart of the "bad area". This portion of the blade is where it was in the worse shape. 3. I used Woody - Who is Bob Benson's deshi to clean the sword up and do not regret it at all! Here are all of the pics I have (before and after) that show the blade. I have no hesitation or number one, referring Ed and two referring Woody. Amazing sword! http://s854.beta.photobucket.com/user/S ... y/Masafusa Quote
Daniel Posted November 9, 2012 Report Posted November 9, 2012 Joe, that's a beautiful sword. I thought of buying it myself but ended up buying the Masamitsu from you instead. Regards Daniel Quote
SwordGuyJoe Posted November 9, 2012 Author Report Posted November 9, 2012 Given our similar taste, I figured you'd like it! Quote
george trotter Posted November 9, 2012 Report Posted November 9, 2012 It certainly has the Seki shape...very distinctive...reminds me of my Seki Kanehide. Strange...in all the years I collected "real" nihonto I was never interested in Seki work (although I had a shinto era Kanemoto and a Iwashiro line Kanesada)...but now that I have gone over to the "dark side" of WWII gendaito I must say that when one finds a good quality blade by a Seki maker, they have a lot going for them (IMHO)...good, sturdy fighting swords...made for the battlefield...(what else is a sword for?). So I now have the Kanehide and a copy of a Sengoku Jidai Zenjo line uchigatana by an unknown Tokyo smith and I must say I am now really interested in good Seki fighting swords as collector items...so, nice to see another on NMB. Thanks for sharing. Regards, Quote
huntershooter Posted November 9, 2012 Report Posted November 9, 2012 Lovely blade Joe. My experience with Ed has been equally rewarding. Quote
zatoichi Posted November 10, 2012 Report Posted November 10, 2012 Did I miss something where is the Nakago where is the kissaki, boshi how can one say good blade with out seeing these? Justin Quote
J Reid Posted November 10, 2012 Report Posted November 10, 2012 See original post.. Joe provided a link, Justin. Josh Quote
Ed Posted November 19, 2012 Report Posted November 19, 2012 Sorry for the late reply, thanks for the kind words. Quote
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