Showa-to from Amahide's workshop

[slayersjoker]

Bruce,

 

Sorry, I was talking about the Aoi Japan sword.

That was my impression from the webpage. The sword does not seem to have black spots exclusive on oil-quenched blades.

Also, from the pictures, I can see the grain structures.

So could this be a so-called Gendaito?

[Yukihiro]

4 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Are you talking about the Aoijapan blade or Didier's blade?

Guys may correct me, but the Aoi blade is described as: 

Jigane :Niedeki suguha with small ashi and Kinsuji work.
Bo-shi is rather long and hamon is komaru.
Hamon :Nie deki suguha based koala well work and kinsuji work.

 

I don't think oil quenched blades have those details.  

 

 

Bruce,

Could you tell me more about the style of my Amahide blade? I know very little but my impression is that it has a ko-gunome hamon and maybe a ko-maru boshi. Other than that, I really don't know, but surely there is not much to see.

I had thought for a moment it might have had a masame hada, but they are just scratches apparently. The Seki stamp precludes the possibility of it being a gendaito anyway.

[Bruce Pennington]

Didier,

I am absolutely the wrong guy to ask on that, sorry!  My post above was just a quote from the Aoi site.  There are plenty of nihonto guys that can address that for you.

[Yukihiro]

I haven't tried to measure it yet, but the blade strikes me as having (very) little sori - was it the hallmark of the production at Amahide's guntô factory or just a random choice on the part of those who made that sword?

 

 

[vajo]

Sori is a process of hardning. 

A blade hardned in water gets more sori than in oil.

It also depends on the layer construction of the blade. 

 

I think your sword has a sori of 0,9 cm which is in the normal range.

[Yukihiro]

11 hours ago, vajo said:

Sori is a process of hardning. 

A blade hardned in water gets more sori than in oil.

It also depends on the layer construction of the blade. 

 

I think your sword has a sori of 0,9 cm which is in the normal range.

I was asking the question because my other gunto blade (signed by Toshimasa) has definitely more sori than this one.  

[Yukihiro]

It was the very first time this spring ( ! ) I had the opportunity of taking photos of my Amahide gunto in broad daylight and under the sun. I know the blade is in poor polish and that it is a mere gunto, but still, it is, to my non expert eyes, quite enjoyable.