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Teimei

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Hi,

 

here is another shop/dealer i can only recommend. Like the name suggests it is a shop in europe, germany to be precise.

I purchased several tsuba and some kodogu boxes and every transaction went smoothly.

Mr. Mike Prill, who runs the shop, was always willing to explain the quality of his items to me.

He even helped me when i was importing my first nihonto, without asking for anykind of payment.

 

I would recommend him especially to members in the EU (no taxes, no problem with the customs office :roll:) and in germany :rotfl:

 

HP: http://www.nihonto.eu/de/nihonto/

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/Nihonto.eu

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

P.S.: Just in case: i am not affiliated to the shop or Mr. Prill in any way! :D

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Florian,

 

he is a kind man, no doubt, but you cannot expect any NIHONTO related knowledge from him. If he had not his Japanese girl friend (or wife in the meantime?) he would be helpless. You have to make out for yourselves what you can buy. I would not say that if I did not know him personally.

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Florian,

 

he is a kind man, no doubt, but you cannot expect any NIHONTO related knowledge from him. If he had not his Japanese girl friend (or wife in the meantime?) he would be helpless. You have to make out for yourselves what you can buy. I would not say that if I did not know him personally.

 

 

Jean,

 

i don´t know if i would call him helpless (maybe i don´t know him well enough) and he has never told me what to buy and what not.

He just gave me some general information about the importing procedure in general (taxes, customs tariff numbers etc.), which was kind of nice and made things a lot easier for me.

I have never bought a sword from him to be honest, but all my transactions went smoothly and that was all i wanted to state here :dunno:.

 

 

Regards,

Nihonto Europe Newbie

Nihonto Europe

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Florian,

 

he is a kind man, no doubt, but you cannot expect any NIHONTO related knowledge from him. If he had not his Japanese girl friend (or wife in the meantime?) he would be helpless. You have to make out for yourselves what you can buy. I would not say that if I did not know him personally.

 

I was very surprised when I read the comment of “Jean C.”.

 

The background: Some years ago (it was 2011, if I remember right), there was a kind of medieval festival in Herrstein where we (my wife and me) meat Jean. We talked about this and that – but only for some minutes and not about any sword topics. Because Jean offered in a small shop a few handmade knives and Tsuba, I told him that I am the owner of the company ”Nihonto.eu”.

Since we were together with my parents in Herstein and they wanted to drive back to home, I gave Jean my business card (not a good idea as I see now) and said goodbye…that was all.

 

For me, I an not able to assess whether Jean is an expert with Token or Tosogu or not after this short conversation, especially since we have not talked about this topics.

 

I would not say that I'm a great expert – every day I am learning something more, but I am selling Nihonto, Kodogu & Tsuba and offering a restoration service since 2001 (and by the way, I know my wife only since 2011 - that means I was helpless for 10 years???).

 

Mike Prill

Nihonto.eu

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Hi all,

 

Bought Some items ( Kogatana, Book and knife ) From Mike and was allways Running

 

Fine.

 

A Gentleman WHO Takes care, spending Time and helps in any questions ( Research in

 

Japan)

 

Best Regards

Nihonto Europe Newbie

Nihonto Europe

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I polish myself.

 

Here you can read (...) and about my restoration service:

http://www.nihonto.eu/de/restauration/

 

Mike, I haven't found anything about your training as a polisher. Can you please tell us who taught you?

 

 

I learned Goldsmith and after I have finished my apprenticeship I started to study “Ancient crafts and fine arts”.

During my study I had to choose one ancient craft as a focus. One of my professor had a traditional smithy, so I learned knive forging for 3 years and at the end of my study the basis knowledge about traditional blade polishing with stones (this was an hobby of my professor).

 

Some years later I began to learn all the traditional crafts for sword restoration: Polishing, Tsuka and Saya-building, Tsuka-wrapping, and so on. During this time I had no teacher…but since some years I have a experienced person who gives me helpful tips and takes a look on my work.

 

I am an amateur? Well, I have never ruined any blade, but if the blade is an REALLY high class Nihonto, I am sending the blade to Japan for polishing…

 

By the way: I have seen so much bad polishing works in the last years, also from professional polishers from Japan…and I have seen some really good works from people which have never learned in Japan as well. So I think a autodidact can also make a good work.

 

So feel free to look at my work and find out for yourself…

Brian

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Was just thinking the same thing.

As discussed countless times, we don't advocate amateur or self taught polishing. This has been debated and discussed to death, and now it is time for people to make up their own minds and research for themselves.

Good to have another dealer on board. Feel free to update us when you have new items for sale etc. Discussion is welcome on anything besides polishing.

 

Brian

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