[TheForge] Interesting Sword on ebay

Doug Ayen ayen at homeport.org
Tue Jun 8 18:26:49 EDT 2004


Quoth Connsmith722 at aol.com (Connsmith722 at aol.com):
> I'll make a guess.... Pakistan? India?
>  
>  
>               Ted Jones

Close, China. Claims to be hand-forged D2, katana type,
etched-on hamon, habaki with visible gaps, tsuba looks
cast, can't say about the quality. For the ~$90, could
be a decent practice sword, but without seeing the 
length of the tang it's hard to say.

--doug





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