getting back in

[Peter Bleed]

I am trying to get back in the Message Board.

 

[Toryu2020]

Welcome back Peter!

[Bazza]

Yes Peter. welcome back indeed.  What have you been doing while you've 'been away'??  How's Werribee???

 

BaZZa

aka Barry Thomas.

(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

[Bruce Pennington]

Glad to see NMB is back!  It was not reachable for the whole of last evening (Colorado Mountain Time), from 6pm to 10pm.

[Peter Bleed]

I appreciate these nice comments. Indeed, this list is a fine community that helps a wide range of folks interested in Japanese swords. "Sword collecting" certainly is not the activity it once was and there is a great generation shift going on. Isn't it interesting how  "international"  sword appreciation has become. The hobby I discovered depended on a disorganized  mass of war souvenirs and a trivially small literature. Now, thanks largely to communities like this one and the labor of folks like our dear Brian (thank you thank you!), information is readily available. There was a time when we had to teach ourselves how to read signatures. And it was a slow process.  B. W. Robinson taught us how to count strokes and read the kanji so that we could dig thru Hawley and find what mattered. Golly it was fun, but now all that information can be provided expertly - and really rather politely and positively - in a matter of hours. Thanks to this fine list!

 

[Tcat]

3 hours ago, Peter Bleed said:

 Golly it was fun, but now all that information can be provided expertly - and really rather politely and positively - in a matter of hours. Thanks to this fine list!

 

Hi Peter, the forum needs knowledable people such as yourself to keep adding to the discussion. I have read many of your posts over the years, thank you for your contributions and welcome back.