brannow Posted May 8, 2016 Report Posted May 8, 2016 Hi Bruce, Yes! Here is a full photo of the sword. Quote
Bruno Posted June 10, 2016 Report Posted June 10, 2016 Interesting discussion, indeed prices are really high for Mantetsu-to nowadays. Would be ok to trade mine for a great gendaito! Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted June 10, 2016 Report Posted June 10, 2016 Hi Bruce, Yes! Here is a full photo of the sword. That's gorgeous Bill. I can't wait to get mine polished. Quote
reeder Posted June 22, 2016 Report Posted June 22, 2016 I did see a fairly early one that had a fresh polish and it was loaded with hada. Wish I had saved the pictures, but unfortunately I did not. Found the pictures of the Mantetsu. 1 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted June 22, 2016 Report Posted June 22, 2016 Wow, Brandon! I had read that the non-traditionally made blades could have a "grain" giving them the look of traditional blades, but that's the first one I've actually seen. Beautiful! Quote
lonely panet Posted June 22, 2016 Author Report Posted June 22, 2016 the gain structure almost looks like a wootz Damascus on a kard or katar. very interesting. Do we know whom polished it?. if every mantetsu was this nice I can understand the high price Quote
reeder Posted July 1, 2016 Report Posted July 1, 2016 No clue who polished it. A friend sent me pics of it saying he stumbled across pics somewhere and it's why he liked early mantetsus. Quote
lonely panet Posted July 23, 2016 Author Report Posted July 23, 2016 the link has a example of a matetsu blade with so called (battle damage) http://ohmura-study.net/136.html just for the people interested Quote
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