What you don't want to see when you take off the tsuka..

[Brian]

Ok, so you see a reasonable Shin gunto mounted wakizashi on eBay. The seller doesn't seem to know too much about it, so you take a chance, since he hasn't taken off the tsuka, and think you can maybe pick up a sleeper.

When you get it, this is what you find...

 

Just an imaginary scenario, since the auction is still running, and the seller did manage to remove the tsuka and post pics eventually.

But this is just a warning to those, like many of us, who take a chance every now and then hoping to find that bargain that everyone wasn't prepared to take a chance on.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wakizashi-Japanese- ... dZViewItem

 

 

Sad what some people will do to a sword in an effort to clean it up or whatever. This one will never be brought back to a nice state no matter how you reshape it.,

 

Brian

[remzy]

HOLY GRINDAGE!

[Gabriel L]

That's just really, really sad.

 

Whoever did it MUST have looked at it afterwards and said "oops," no matter how little they might have known about the subject. Seriously.

[Stephen V]

But the really scary thing is that there appears to have been three bids placed on it AFTER the additional pictures of the bare nakago were added to the site!

 

[Guest Nanshoku-Samurai]

Hm, I think someone started his polishing from the wrong end of the blade. A unique buy for the money. Should stand out in any collection.

[kusunokimasahige]

HORRID!!!

 

I am shocked!

 

KM