Opinions on what this means.

[jrs]

I recently bought this blade knowing that it was out of polish, BUT, I dont understand why there is not a sharpened edge. The "edge" is actuall about 1mm. thick on the whole blade. The shape of the blade and the 3 mekugi ana made me think it was an older sword. I can make out a hamon on the blade, looks suguha, but the marks left by the first few polishing stones are hiding everything else. What am I missing here.

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[remzy]

Probably an amateur polisher who bought a rusty blade and then sold it for twice as much as he initialy paid for.

[jrs]

So would it then be atypical for a better polisher to completely remove the sharpened edge? or is that normal for a badly rusted sword?To clarify my comment, it looks as though a polishing job was started but not completed. If the sword was badly rusted/chipped, would a polisher completely dull the edge to work out the chips or would he polish the blade with the edge sharpened until the chips were gone?

[Bungo]

if you recall one of those old John Wayne movies .........he gave a tachi/gunto to his young boy while on leave from the Pacific Front, I assumed the edge had been dulled.

So if they portrait such a scene in the movie, it's conceivable incidents liked that happened quite often.

 

milt

[Jean]

I remember this picture, Milt, and though it was more than thirty years ago, it was a tachi with a flamboyant koshirae, I remember the boy complaining about his father not bringing him back any war souvenir and JW showing him the tachi...

 

I am becoming sentimental