Article on Jon Bowhay

[blades87]

I met Jon for the first time last night to have him straighten a wakizashi for me and I spent a couple of hours talking with him about a whole host of topics. I found an online article on Jon and wanted to share it with the NMB forum. I have seen some NMB posts related to his work, so I figured I could share a bit of information that I found.

 

http://www.bigempire.com/sake/sword.html

 

Enjoy.

 

Toby Z.

[Brian]

Thanks Toby,

I did chat to Jon via email, and his contact details are up on the links page, under restoration. Check out the page for his details, as well as the pages for other restorers such as our own Ted Tenold, etc..

 

Brian

[Rich S]

I have three excellent articles by Jon on my website at:

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/togishi.htm

 

Rich S

[sensei215]

Great reading and quite useful information. A pleasure to read. He seems to do great work.

 

 

Tim S

[Eric H]

Jon Bowhay is one of very, very few Westerners to ever have completed the full ten year apprenticeship in Japan to become a fully trained and licensed sword polisher...

(Richard Stein)

Thanks for sharing

Eric