Paul Martins Polishing Services

[David Flynn]

I sent a sword over to Paul Martin for Polishing, Shirasaya, Habaki restoration and Shinsa.  May I say how impressed I am with the professionalism of Paul.  The sword has now been polished and awaiting Shinsa. I saw the sword in Japan whilst there attending the DTI and the polish was outstanding.  The charge also, was more than reasonable.  I can't recommend Pauls services highly enough.  It has been an absolute pleasure.

[Stephen]

Id say worth every cent extra, to go this route. Well done David

[SwordGuyJoe]

David - may I ask who you used to polish the blade?

[DirkO]

Yes I also used him for polishing and shinsa and I can highly recommend him.

[pcfarrar]

Paul's service is excellent, I'm collecting a sword from him next weekend in London. Anyone in the UK who wants to send a sword for restoration should contact Paul as it's a good opportunity to avoid shipping/customs hassle.

[David Flynn]

Joe, he told me but I forgot. I will ask him again when I next speak to him.

[David Flynn]

Joe, I spoke to Paul and the polishers name is, Komiya Mitsutoshi, fully trained under Fujishiro Okisato.

[Gakusee]

For the avoidance of doubt, Paul can arrange for a sword to be polished by a variety of polishers in Japan and he has numerous contacts in that community. In that sense, he is not restricted to one or two polishers and it is best if everyone discusses their preferences with him directly.

Michael

[David Flynn]

That's absolutely correct, Michael.

[Shugyosha]

  On 11/27/2016 at 4:00 PM, pcfarrar said:

Paul's service is excellent, I'm collecting a sword from him next weekend in London. Anyone in the UK who wants to send a sword for restoration should contact Paul as it's a good opportunity to avoid shipping/customs hassle.

 

Thanks for the tip Peter. I've contacted Paul and am going to have a run down to London to drop a sword off on Saturday. If anyone wants to put a face to a name, I'll be the short, fat bloke clutching a grey holdall.

 

Best,

John

[Gakusee]

Yes, John - see you in the Tavistock Hotel on 3 Dec

It will be good to catch up with Peter too.

Michael

[peter]

I'll be there.

The fella with the funny accent.

Peter

[pcfarrar]

I believe it was Komiya Mitsutoshi who polished my sword too, I will see you guys at the hotel on Saturday morning.

[Jean]

I am having lunch with him on Friday in Paris

[Jussi Ekholm]

Hopefully we can get some pictures when the sword returns to home. Another big + to Paul from here too (even though I haven't used his services).

[Kronos]

I have also used Paul's services and he is imho the gold standard if you want restoration work or to send something to shinsa in Japan. The communication is second to none answering my noobish questions(I think we're up to around 100 e-mails at this point over just the one sword) and his rates are very competitive. The packaging is also outstanding to the point I felt embarrassed about what I sent him.

 

I'll also be there on Saturday although I couldn't get out of work tomorrow night so am coming straight from work then have to be back in work Saturday night so will be quite zombified

[pcfarrar]

Got my Wakizashi back from Paul today. Couldn't be more pleased with the end result, excellent polish which shows the activity in the blade really well.

[pcfarrar]

Just a quick before and after on my sword (Sandai Hoki no Kami Nobutaka)

Before:

After:

 

Close Up:

[peter]

No Kassaki pictures Peter? ????

Peter McCafferty

[pcfarrar]

Sorry it's slightly out of focus.

 

Before:

 

 

After:

 

[YOJIMBO]

Nothing bad faith. But it looks better before than after ?

[Greg F]

I think it looks nice Peter. I wouldn't hesitate to use the service provided if I needed a blade polished if there wasn't one in my own country.

 

Greg

[Brian]

  On 12/5/2016 at 12:24 PM, YOJIMBO said:

Nothing bad faith. But it looks better before than after ?

Good drugs where you are from??

[charlie1]

  On 12/5/2016 at 5:00 PM, Brian said:

Good drugs where you are from??

[charlie1]

????

[ggil]

It's probably just the photos. Useful befor and after pics would have same lighting, orientation and everything. As is, the photos make it seem like the hada got opened up in the shinogi ji, because we have no before on this spot of the blade in similar light at least. Then we have Kunitaro San that mentioned here of the fujishiro famous acid polishing a showato in a day, VS the other method for no acid, so there you go.

[pcfarrar]

  On 12/6/2016 at 7:17 AM, ggil said:

It's probably just the photos. Useful befor and after pics would have same lighting, orientation and everything. As is, the photos make it seem like the hada got opened up in the shinogi ji, because we have no before on this spot of the blade in similar light at least. Then we have Kunitaro San that mentioned here of the fujishiro famous acid polishing a showato in a day, VS the other method for no acid, so there you go.

 

Unfortunately I don't have many photos of the sword before it was polished. That patch of coarse hada on the shinogi was already like that before the new polish so it hasn't really changed as such.

[David Flynn]

Are you happy with the polish, Peter?

[pcfarrar]

  On 12/6/2016 at 11:42 AM, David Flynn said:

Are you happy with the polish, Peter?

 

Yes I'm really pleased with the end result. I've also got two tanto with Paul at the moment for shinsa but I will likely give him another sword for polishing next year.

[YOJIMBO]

Back from drug ride 

 

Look to the photos, My comment was about the fact that it reminded me a sword that I have at home. And another, which I had long ago. The first - ugly hadori. The second - perfect sashikomi. Therefore, it seemed to me that it looked better before.

 

 

Unfortunately sashikomi are shooting very badly.