Hello all! Well, I have been wanting to post something like this for quite a while – so here it goes! I am still fairly new to tsuba collecting. I have been in this great hobby for only about 5 years. I wanted to share some of my experiences with new collectors. I think I have been fairly fortunate in purchasing some of my hand forged tsuba (which are entirely different from cast tsuba – maybe I can talk about that difference in a possible part 2