My First Tanto

[MAXBLISS888]

The blade..

[Jean]

Where is it Francis?

[Brian]

Nakago pretty much confirms it. Tapered, with a low down ana. Similar to the so-called WW2 soldier's knives.

[MAXBLISS888]

Attached the blade again. Even though it's a small tourist knife with 15cm length in blade, the blade is relatively heavy and sharp...

[Marius]

Francis,

 

May I ask what you expect us to do? You have a fine example here... of a knife.

[MAXBLISS888]

Francis,

May I ask what you expect us to do? You have a fine example here... of a knife.

Dear Marius

 

I am not expecting anyone to do anything. I was merely answering Jean's question of where is it.

 

I thought this is a forum of sharing? Even though this may not be the expensive real Nihoto sword, it may be good to show what is NOT a Nihinto and What is a Tourist knife so that any other new comers can learn right? There is no need to be sacastic right?

[MAXBLISS888]

Dear Brian

 

Please delete the tread that I have started.

 

Dear Jean

 

Thanks for all your advice. Will read and hunt for a real Nihonto sword before participating in the forum to avoid being ridicule.

 

Thanks!

[Jean]

Francis

 

Don't take it too harshly but people can be quite abrupt here. My first Nihonto were: a gimei suriage wakizashi signed "Izumi no Kami Fujiwara Kunisada", a wakizashi resulting from a shortened katana by Nobutaka and an other wakizashi by a Bichu smith with a big ware in the kissaki, everybody has to begin by something

 

We shall carry on our discussion by private e-mails

[mfarrar]

Hi Francis,

 

My first sword was pretty bad but you learn from it, buy some books and if you can go somewhere where you can view real nihonto.

 

You can also look at swords classed as ko-wakizashi as these can be within your size restriction like this one at Aoi Art:

 

http://www.aoijapan.com/wakizashi-kanenori-4

[DanielLee]

Hi Francis,

 

There's no need to restrict yourself to buy tanto and importing into Singapore. I'm based in Singapore too and importanting katana is no issue, you just have to have documentation to show that the sword is an antique (more than a hundred years old) and it will be exempt from the "blunting" requirement.

 

I'll drop you a pm , feel free to contact me if you want more info or need help.

 

Daniel

[Jamie]

Don't feel bad man. It happens to many people and you'll learn from it.

Just study up before investing more money.

[MAXBLISS888]

Thanks for all the kind advices. Doing reading and information gathering.. Have a nice weekend

[Jean]

Thanks to Francis I have discovered this fake wabsite....

www. ni-hon-to.com/category-c-12

 

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[Guido]

Thanks to Francis I have discovered this fake wabsite....

 

www. ni-hon-to.com/category-c-12

 

Stay away from that URL, it's a phishing website!