NIhonto for sale

[tomoyuki]

Hi Gang.
My sword polishing group is selling about a half dozen or more nice swords over the next few months.
I thought I would list them here before we send them to ebay. We will sell any of them here for the listing price that we will stat with on ebay.
We have 3 late period Katana Shinshinto-Gendi. All in full polish and Samurai mountings. Ranging from $1500-2500.
4-5 wakazashi. of many sizes, Koto and shinto, All in full polish, and most in samurai mounts. $300-1500
I believe one shinshin or gendi Tanto as well $600
I will post a better list next week with prices. Anyone interested can contact me directly. We take paypal, postal money orders, and checks, after they clear.
Marc [e-mail]

[Takeda Sanjuichiro]

tomoyuki said:

My sword polishing group is selling about a half dozen or more nice swords over the next few months...

Sir Marc, is your polishing group regionally based, or are the spread out. I would be interested in information about it. Also do you know of an active regional group for nihonto study? one which can instruct on some of the points of kantei? Again I would be interested.

Also when you have more info on the nihonto for sale, some pictures would be great.

-Takeda

[tomoyuki]

I should have pics. of many of them by next week. If your email is listed I will send you some.
I think Dr. Stine, who runs the huge Nihonto net site, lives in central Va or near DC. He may have a sword study group going. I will try to contact him and see.
The polishers that I know are throughout the US. I have one guy Just outside Greensboro that is my partner. He has been doing most of the base polishing, and I do most of the finish work. He likes base better, and has 10000$ worth of REAL stones. Most of my base stones are man made. He likes, and is better at base, I like , and I'm better at finish, so it works out well for us.
Sword polishing is a VERY difficult thing to learn, without pro trng. Many swords have been ruined by people with the best intentions. That said, there is nothing magical about it. It just take a bunch of time and study, and a lot of practice on old dead swords. and sword parts. It can be learned. Thousands!!! of hours!! Many badly gobbed up swords take well over 100 hours to polish. After doing a few all the way you quickly realize why it cost 2500$ to get your old sword polished. It is very hard work.
I will check my contacts as to where the sword study groups are. Marc