How to destroy a sword

[vajo]

Restoration of a WW2 Katana... (warrelics.eu)

 

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Edges are round, hamon is gone, hada destroyed and fittings polished. Perfect job.

[Bruno]

You can't fix stupid.

[francois2605]

This is just awful, the worst being that the offender seems very happy with the end result.

 

 

[Bruce Pennington]

Thought of this thread when I saw this horror show at THIS AUCTION

 

[lonely panet]

On 11/21/2021 at 6:58 PM, Bruno said:

You can't fix stupid.

You can, but its frowned apon

[Crusader22]

Good Lord, what a train wreck.

 

I have seen SO many fine WWII rifles RUINED with sandpaper and cold bluing paste...

 

I see this field is equally susceptible to this.

 

My uncle used to say, "The surface of the Earth is covered in a roughly even layer of morons".

 

I think he was correct.

[KungFooey]

Pay the hundred bucks, throw away the metal stick and make double your money on the tassel, guard, hilt and scabbard. 🤣

[Polaria]

20 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Thought of this thread when I saw this horror show at THIS AUCTION

 

 

 

What on earth have they done? How do you even get that done?

[Stephen]

7 hours ago, KungFooey said:

Pay the hundred bucks, throw away the metal stick and make double your money on the tassel, guard, hilt and scabbard. 🤣

Easily double or triple your money in parts.

 

OR

have your smitty weld on New nakago

[buchtas]

I read through the original post, dont know about you but they speak of hamon but I dont see any on that piece on before or after pictures.

 

[KungFooey]

Think that's bad? Check out this beauty on yahoo. Translates as 'polished'.
Japanese polish sure shows the grain real well! 🤣🤣🤣

[Bruce Pennington]

Dang!  Looks like someone took a belt sander to a totally rusted/corroded blade.

[nulldevice]

2 hours ago, KungFooey said:

Think that's bad? Check out this beauty on yahoo. Translates as 'polished'.
Japanese polish sure shows the grain real well! 🤣🤣🤣

大大大-hada? 

[RobCarter3]

It looks like it’s been subjected to electrolysis or chemical rust removers.

[Alex A]

Could be worse, could be in Ricks hands, saw this earlier, the Scufftinator

 

Luckily its his own sword

 

 

[lonely panet]

this program tho fun to watch is just that.  fun to watch but fantacy 

[Alex A]

Aye, they struggle to spell Muromachi.

[Polaria]

I don't have the eye to pick things out of Pawn Stars so can someone enlighten me what went wrong there?

[Alex A]

He drew the sword out of the saya on its side, should be the mune, to avoid scuffing the polished blade.

 

To be fair, i once got told off for it when i first started collecting, though it was my own sword.

 

 

 

 

[Polaria]

Like I said, I don't have the eye for that sort of things. Now that you mention it, I can notice it straight away, but here I was looking at the sword, thinking if there was something wrong with it. :D

[Tcat]

On 12/8/2024 at 7:08 AM, Alex A said:

He drew the sword out of the saya on its side, should be the mune, to avoid scuffing the polished blade.

 

Looks like Dana didnt get the memo.

[Alex A]

This is why folks shouldn't let friends or anyone else near their collection unsupervised, its the natural sword draw for beginners.

 

Let alone talking all over them, then comes "is it sharp", followed by running a finger down the edge.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Don't forget slamming the sword back into the Saya at Mach 5.

[ChrisW]

1 hour ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

Don't forget slamming the sword back into the Saya at Mach 5.

We all chuckle at this, but a known member here got yelled at by a polisher for doing this to a few blades at the Indiana Token Kai section of the Chicago Show a few years ago (said person shall remain unnamed, but they know who they are). I was about to say something halfway across the table aisle before said polisher got to him.

Seems like etiquette can never be taught and enforced enough!