Unusual hamon

[Jérôme]

Hi everyone,

 

A tanto with a unusual hamon

 

http://www.tokka.biz/sword/tomotaka.html

 

Best regards

Jérôme

[Mark Green]

Hi Jerome,

 

The hamon looks quite normal to me.

I love those mountings!!!!!!

 

To me, it looks like the sword smith scraped away some clay to form hardened areas in Bonji characters.

Kinda spiff, in a way.

I wonder if it turned out like he wanted it to.

I have never seen this before.

Mark G

[Jamie]

  Mark Green said:

Hi Jerome,

 

The hamon looks quite normal to me.

I love those mountings!!!!!!

 

To me, it looks like the sword smith scraped away some clay to form hardened areas in Bonji characters.

Kinda spiff, in a way.

I wonder if it turned out like he wanted it to.

I have never seen this before.

Mark G

"To me, it looks like the sword smith scraped away some clay to form hardened areas in Bonji characters. "

 

Looks that way to me as well. Interesting looking blade.

[Mark]

could be a type of hitatsura that is sort of "stiff" (like a lot of later ones are) and the hadori work in the kesho polish may make the temper line appear more "normal"

[Jérôme]

Hi everyone,

 

Yes it's not the hamon but the areas with bonjis motif are not unusual.

 

Best regards

Jérôme

[loui]

An "artsy" smith.