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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 17:29:28 GMT
Pretty much, yes. Consider: In iaido the "whistle" made by bo-hi is used as an indicator that hasuji (edge alignment) is correct during a draw and cut exercise. When you get into bo-hi as large as what you find on most production pieces it is going to "whoosh" (too big to whistle, so they whoosh) if you wave it around like a spirit stick at a high-school basketball game. This whooshing sound will often fool a novice into thinking "this is easy" or "I learned this in one cut" or "I AM da' SAMyerEYE". I believe this accounts (at least in part) for the popularity of blades with this type of bo-hi (type B). Interesting. I have this antique infantry saber, and like most later western swords it has a very broad, shallow fuller covering the whole side of the blade, like figure B above. Yet I find that it gives off a very audiable tachikaze-type sound whenever I get a good swing in. (Which is absolutely not all the time.) I wouldn't describe it as a wooshing, but then again I haven't heard enough actual tachikaze to compare the sounds.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 20:39:10 GMT
Many years ago, when all I had was my Gunto, which has a bo-hi and years before I found SBG, I just assumed the blades that didn't have bo-hi were inferior
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