Expert Opinions, Please!

[Bruce Pennington]

Hey guys! 

Friend of my has this one from his grandpa.  Mumei, looks old.  Can you give us some idea what he's got?  Nagasa is 27" (Ignore the stone it's laying on, I told him about that issue)::

 

 

[David Flynn]

Kanbun Shinto.

[Bruce Pennington]

13 hours ago, David Flynn said:

Kanbun Shinto.

Thanks David!  I'll pass that along.

[Rivkin]

Yes, sugata wise very close to Kambun... I would check if boshi is sugu for confirmation.

[Jacques]

I can't read chicken entrails, without measures (sori, motohaba, sakihaba, kasane), I can't say anything. 

[Stephen]

Grandma used to always say "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"

[Bruce Pennington]

Thanks guys!  I'd say he's happy with David's idea.  He doesn't know anything about swords and is just happy to know it's old.  It was in leather saya, but the tsuka was reduced to same' only, no metal fittings, no ito.  So, I'm walking him through ideas on how to retro-fit the tsuka to something he would like.

[Tohagi]

Without that last post, I would think at a zatoïchi blade. (Hided in a march stick of course!)...

[Bruce Pennington]

I noticed how straight it was with very little sori.