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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 20:22:45 GMT
So, to make a long story short, this sword is almost perfect :-)
To say all the good about this sword would take a looooong time, so i'm just gonna say the negative ;-) 1. It is a pitty, that you get a sword of such superb quality, but with such bad sageo. 2. I know it's like this on most swords now a days, but the menukis are not placed right, they should be on the palm side, but they are not. therefore, it ruins the grip, just a little bit.
I am very happy with this sword, and i can't wait to do some cutting next summer :-)
I'll take some more pictures and write some more tomorrow, so no worries ;-)
Johnny Denmark
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Post by Hyoujinsama on Oct 30, 2010 22:07:41 GMT
Thanks for the review!
Just worth noting, having menuki on the palm side is the exception to the rule with katana. Traditionally, you will find the majority of katana will have the menuki opposite the palm, as an attempt to mimic the aesthetics of the itomaki no tachi tsuka. The placement with the menuki in the palms is know as gyaku menuki (reversed menuki) or gyaku-te menuki (reversed handed menuki), thus signifying a deviation from the norm. ^_^
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2010 8:43:57 GMT
Hyoujinsama: Ok then it's just my personal preference hehe :-) And nice to know this ;-)
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Post by MEversbergII on Oct 31, 2010 12:55:49 GMT
Well, this is certainly the most to the point review I've ever read. As a tip though, when using youtube tags you only need one small part of the URL - the bit that comes after "v=". the youtube tags fill in the www.youtube.com/watch?v= part, so you only need to put zv3F3aj3dbs. M.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2010 13:34:34 GMT
MEversbergII: thank you... well not on all sites ;-) but thank you for the tip...
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Post by Larry Jordan on Oct 31, 2010 13:54:08 GMT
This a much appreciated view of this sword. I love the saya and the handiness of the shorter blade length. I presume the "W" on the tsuba is a Wiwingti signature. (It could also be an "M" or a stylized mountain...)
The placement of the menuki in the palm seems more natural to me--that's the way I've been conditioned from gripping weapon stocks (firearms) all these years (slight palm swell). When I received my very first katana, the menuki placement took a while to get used to.
Historically do we know which orientation of the menuki came first? I've often wondered why they were introduced in the first place? A grip aid midst the blood and gore?
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Post by Wes on Oct 31, 2010 15:29:59 GMT
The whole tsuba is a wiwingti design that Marc came up with. Strangely, it reminds me of a violin. Great looking sword though. If I wasn't trying to count my pennies I'd have picked one up by now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2010 16:05:41 GMT
...Same. So many good swords, and this one's clearly a great one....
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Post by Hyoujinsama on Nov 1, 2010 3:36:38 GMT
Historically, the "alternate" style known as gyaku-te menuki came first. Initially, the menuki was used as a cover for the mekugi pin (pre itomaki no tachi) or as a cap to a type of retaining pin similar to neji menuki. The mekugi is in pretty much the same place nowadays, under the first hand, and is inserted from the palm side. The menuki at this time did fill the palms.
With the transition to the use of the uchigatana as the everyday sword, obviously many of the mount parts changed. Something that was held onto, though, was the aesthetics of the placement of menuki. On both tachi and uchigatana, it is most common to see the visible menuki placed more towards the tsuba than the kashira.
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