Coolest hamon I’ve ever seen on a Gunto

[Bridges]

Title says it all, picture attached.

[Scott JM]

Beautiful,  I love these.  Thank you. 

---Scott.

[David Flynn]

Sanbon Sugi. I think you'll find that, the hamon is etched.

[Bridges]

Hey @David Flynn, what leads you to believe this? This model has a mekugi and appears to be sharpened which indicates it has been tempered. It would not make sense, to me, to temper a blade only to etch a hamon over the natural hamon. 

[David Flynn]

How about some more photo's then, including the Nakago.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Definitely etched, these blades are through hardened in oil and the Hamon pattern is then etched like a normal parade sabre. There is no natural Hamon on these swords made using the Murata process. Best to do some reading on what a real Hamon looks like as you will often encounter such swords in Kyu Gunto mounts.

 

This was one stamped by Naohiro, a Taisho era smith who also made Gendai.

 

[Bridges]

Well that’s unfortunate, although the pattern is still beautiful. By far my favorite hamon.

[francois2605]

  On 1/29/2023 at 3:45 AM, Bridges said:

Well that’s unfortunate, although the pattern is still beautiful. By far my favorite hamon.

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Here's a very regular sambonsugi for comparison with visible steel layers.

 

[Dave R]

  On 1/29/2023 at 10:04 AM, francois2605 said:

Here's a very regular sambonsugi for comparison with visible steel layers.

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 Any idea of the maker? It looks like either an Amahida mixed metal or a "Han-tan-ren" Showato.

[francois2605]

No idea, Dave, the sword is mumei

[Bruce Pennington]

  On 1/29/2023 at 3:39 AM, PNSSHOGUN said:

by Naohiro,

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Made me check my Naohiro!  Faint temper line but no hamon:

[vajo]

Bruce there is no hamon because it is full tempered.

The temper line is only there because the material is thiner on the cutting edge and cool down faster after quenching in oil.

[Volker62]

again, some of my famous Masakuni ( Okishiba) 

 

who made kitchen knifes after the war

 

pur soshu den gendai

[Volker62]

 beautiful important long (68,4cm)custom order made Hokke Saburo Nobufusa 8.Gen 

 

Itame/ mokume  with masame on the cutting edge

 

hamon is  very active undulating sugu  with kinsuji and sunagashi

 

forged in rare Yamato Tegai Tradition, polish and judge by Kenji Mishina in 2007 TBH NBTHK Paper

 

This sword was found in a late '98 pattern shin Gunto koshirae

[PNSSHOGUN]

Hi Volker, what is the name of the officer this custom order was for?

[Volker62]

John san.

 

with pleasure...

 

its signed "Tame Maeda shi Kore"

[george trotter]

Hi Volker san,

Very nice Okishiba Masakuni hamon...I have mentioned this before I think...your Masakuni is probably 2nd gen (the son of 1st gen Masakuni) as the 2nd gen is known to have made knives in Sakai city (Osaka) after the war until he died in c. 1990.

A real pity that swordmaking seems to have just about died out in Sakai these days... now only knife smiths.  The Okishiba line were very important Osaka smiths.

Regards...

 

[Volker62]

Thanks a lot George san.

 

thats pity.....its a bid shame this change