Newbie asks potentially embarassing question

[WoodbridgeGaijin]

Is it common to have two different styles of Bo-Hi on a nihonto such as this?http://antiques.listings.ebay.ca/Asian-Antiques_Japanese_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ37934QQsocmdZListingItemList

Val Giardina

[Brian]

I think this is the one you mean? http://cgi.ebay.ca/Antique-signed-Japan ... dZViewItem

I don't think it is common, but not very rare either.

Ending in a few minutes. Not enough blade pics to determine if there is anything to worry about IMHO.

 

Brian

[pcfarrar]

I can't believe someone paid over $2000. For that price you could get a much better blade. The grooves dont look very well cut and that saya is horrible.

[WoodbridgeGaijin]

My apologies, It was this one.

 

Val Giardina

 

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Japanese-Samurai-Sword-FUJIWARA-NOBUTAKA-w-BOHI_W0QQitemZ160123033978QQihZ006QQcategoryZ73466QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Ed Harbulak]

This style of horimono is not very unusual. It's a gomabashi on one side and either a bohi or koshibi on the other side. Rather a common method of decoration by the Echizen Seki smiths as well as some other schools.

Ed

[sencho]

That is Mike Yamaguchi's auction and he is a good guy.... he sometimes sells some "project blades" but he makes no bones about them being nothing but a rusty peice of metal!!!

 

I have bought swords from him before and would trust him totally. As you see he offers a full refund if the blade does not pass shinsa and he gives you a 10 day inspection period (from the day YOU recive the blade) That is a pretty fair trading practice...

 

By the way it is not an embarrassing question at all... it is a very good question!! I learned something new...:D !!

 

Cheers