Basic Knowlege Everyone Should Know

[John A Stuart]

Hi Everyone, May I suggest downloading the following PDF files and studying them. They are one of the best discourses on Nihonto construction ever and fairly simple to follow. John

 

http://meitokukan.com/Downloads/Nihonto%20Part%20I.pdf

 

http://meitokukan.com/Downloads/Nihonto%20Part%20II.pdf

[kusunokimasahige]

Thank you John !!

 

Will print it out soon, looks to be a great summary and full of necessary info !!

 

KM

[Derek]

Thank you very much for this.

 

 

-Derek

[drdata]

Wow! Some really great metallurgy information in there.

 

Thanks so much

 

Cheers

[Ken-Hawaii]

Very useful, John, thanks! I've seen the eutectic info, but have never seen the actual metal structures.

 

Ken

[Laurent D]

Thank you so much, very useful and interesting documents.

 

Laurent D.

[Nico W]

Thank you very much for this!

[Brian]

Ditto

 

 

Brian

[Jean]

Thanks friend :D

[Robert Janssen]

Thanks John!

 

a very nice summary with informative pictures, and I personally like the history summary and the scientific explanation behind the mechanisms of forging that they figured out over a thousand years ago!

 

greets,

 

Robert

[bluboxer]

These should make the "required reading" list.

Thanks John.

[Jorgensen]

Very informative, great pics and very relevant. It is very obvious you have put a lot of time in making this. Thank you, I have really enjoyed reading it through! Thank you.

 

-Jimi

[John A Stuart]

Oh no, I didn't create this!! The Meitokukan dojo in NY is responsible for all the hard work. I am just the messenger. John

[Tcat]

John, great stuff; thanks to all involved

[Jorgensen]

Oh, my mistake then... However its very well done by Meitokukan dojo and thanks for providing the information.

[Jean]

Some typo in the text. I have seen a date of 1971 .....

[edzo]

Dear John,

Thanks for that great information!!! Three cheers for John and this forum!!! Ed F

[cisco-san]

Many thanks - very useful!!!

[Bugyotsuji]

For some reason they opened themselves for me. Now I am glad I ventured in and read them. Great stuff, John. Thanks!

[Mike]

Great read , thank you.

 

Mike

[Sylvain]

Thank you for those two very helpful documents!

 

I am new to this forum and have been learning a lot since I registered, thanks a lot by the way to all the contributors and admins.

 

Sylvain A.