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Plug your Ears and Open
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Time is your Friend,
Haste your Enemy
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All Rules Are Beginner's
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Advice on Polishing
People ask how to go about having their
sword polished.
My Advice: Find the quality of polish you
admire. Ask the owner who polished that sword and contact that polisher
directly. NEVER have a dealer or go between take your sword for
polish. They charge a large percentage and contract for cheap work.
Rule: Pay as little as possible
for a sword - but always pay as much as possible for quality polish. You
do not want to have poor polish work.
Therefore never use a dealer for a go-between;
always write the actual polisher and send your sword to that person, yourself. |
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Note on Care of Books
| With books, one mar or fingerprint to the
ink of the pictures - one crease or crush to a page - any difference from
brand-new, creates value loss and permanently sets the book back. Just
as chips in a blade - or chips in the lacquer of a Saya create value loss.
It is overt damage.
"Normal use" is damage to books.
Anyone having reference or collector books,
antique book collectors or curators, all have the same, expected and specific
method of handling books. - This is similar to proper sword etiquette being
the only allowable method. |
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Important Note on Collecting
| It is perhaps a partial statement, but
none the less not far-fetched, to say that the sword appraisal agencies
and sword clubs in modern Japan have made up and created a mind set for
today's collectors; and have set them like sheep for the polished, papered
"Packaged" sword products. - Little notice has been taken that the real
Samurai swords, the actual swords of the Samurai - are being wholly altered,
ground up by polishing and re-constructed, essentially ending their specific
histories.
When a Temple or Shrine is completely reconstructed;
or moved down the street to make way for a parking garage - is it the same?
One of the aspects
for collectors is certainly polished, and papered swords; - And the other,
however, are original, real Samurai antique swords. Nihonto.
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two are not the same
Many of the Japanese collectors would never
bother changing, papering or altering their swords at all - of course,
the why of this hasn't been loudly preached. |
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Selling before Buying
My Advice: They will sell when they sell.
They
really will. They'll sell tomorrow - or maybe within the year.
How will it feel looking back in five years,
if your sale items sell in a month - or in a year and half?
Once sold, they are gone and not before.
Generally, it doesn't matter - only that
they sold at some point and that you didn't let a thing you wanted, get
away.
Otherwise, you end up with the things that
didn't sell. |
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The Old Way is the Right
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