gunome hamon ?

[loiner1965]

would the learned gentleman say this hamon was gunome or 3 cedars....opologies for the poor quality pic but the blade needs a polish to show the hamon of better....thanks in advance

[Mark Green]

Hi Steve,

If it is three cedars, I would say not a very good job. Gunome-midare is more likely.

It may help to see more of the hamon, or a bit from both sides.

Mark G

[loiner1965]

will try a take better pics of it but its quite tricky to do... it does go all the way round the blade but i might try and scan it as well as i think jean or jacques described how to do it on an earliar posting

[loiner1965]

just checked some hamons on his other swords and they describe it as flamboyant gunome

[Guest nickn]

gunome

showato???

[loiner1965]

gunome

showato???

it is showato by fukumoto kanemune

[Guest nickn]

it looks oil quenched

any stamps on the nakago?

[loiner1965]

it has the showa stamp and a little kao by the smith in question....please see my other posts on this smith as he produced true nihonto swords as well

[Guest nickn]

lots of showa smith did

i have 3 23rd generation kane fusa

one gendiato stunning hamon itame hada

another has hada but what looks like an oil quench

lastly pure showato oil quenched

[loiner1965]

lots of showa smith did

i have 3 23rd generation kane fusa

one gendiato stunning hamon itame hada

another has hada but what looks like an oil quench

lastly pure showato oil quenched

very true....unfortunately i cannot tell if oil or water quenched....still i love it and that what counts lol