Hello! I am Mars from Hong Kong
Oct 31, 2012 15:11:31 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2012 15:11:31 GMT
Hi everybody, In fact I have been visiting SBG since the old forum, but I didnt register so far until now.
My name is Mars, an asian guy from Hong Kong, I work in food safety aspects in food industry HK, and
I am 24 now, and had been get along with swords since 2005-2006, so it had been 6-7 years now.
I have been learning swordmanship in HK, german longsword style first and than chinese style, usually I said longsword style is a "basic structure" to me and other styles change some principles but mainly simular; more than that I also self-learn the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu in books and video, however it just some personal interest, some historical references for me in other styles, and I am not good enough to use it in sword fright yet. My weapon of choice is the japanese style great sword-the Nodachi. But I can also use katana, Chinese Jian(single hand or two handed), longsword or simular etc.
For sword collections, I have nearly 5-6 swords myself, currently selling 1 or 2 out (so it was 7-8), I got 2 nodachi, one with 91cm blade length and the other one got 104cm long blade; 1 chinese jian (single handed, liminated and DH blade); 1 chinese jian (two handed, TH, single steel), 1 unmounted katana, single steel with hamon etc. There was a wakizashi which is selling locally, but so far no one interested in yet; and the other one is my first cold steel katana(personally I love this one much, the quality and heattreatment is truly impressive), but this one I'd given to a friend to break it as a reference and example of a good sword. so I guess totally 6 now. Besides that, I still have 2 spear, 1 is 2 meter long, another is 2.15 meter long; and half dozen of wooden boken, 3 in nodachi style and 2 in katana style.
Recently I have rented a small place here to have my own workshop, to self-learn sword polishing art and sword making (mainly stock removal style) after offical working hours. Sometimes I use PC to design blades and swords, and currently still helping a friend (who opreated a 3 man forge in china) to design katana outlines voluntarily (Well, just an artist meet another artist who has same wish).Now I m having 2 sample of steel that I would like to try first, but still waitting my new resistance furnace to come. I am quite an amateur steel scholar, I guess it is some kind of personal interest in heat treating maybe~
And I also hope to know more guys(or ladies maybe) who have simular experience, which I will be very willing to have your guidance in any aspects. ^O^"
I guess its enough for my rough English XD~ (Sorry, not native speaker, and some Dysgraphia, but I am trying my best.)
Here are some of my collection:
(The one just sold, but in fact I love it very much, beautiful peice of art.you see the limination...but...rent..$$...sad.....)
I love the shape of this one, a naginata-naoshi style wakizashi, it not rare, but rare to have good outlooking and design
Some sword collections that I store at my workshop
This one is polishing, now its in "Binsui" state.
This is the Tsuba of my huge nodachi, its a 8mm thick solid mild-steel...and it was heavy, too heavy that upset the swords balance, so I modified it myself, sanded it from a square profile to round profile now and drill holes to reduce the weight, then re-blackening it (chemistry~) again. It was 420g and now 370g something............(well the whole sword is 2.1kg)
This is my pocket knief...not swords... :mrgreen:
Here are some pic from my 3 man forge friend's work
(There is some question you should not ask, the answer is nop~at least not now, hope you understand! Thanks!)
So, I guess I introduced as much as I can for myself, and looking forward to learn from you all! ^^
My name is Mars, an asian guy from Hong Kong, I work in food safety aspects in food industry HK, and
I am 24 now, and had been get along with swords since 2005-2006, so it had been 6-7 years now.
I have been learning swordmanship in HK, german longsword style first and than chinese style, usually I said longsword style is a "basic structure" to me and other styles change some principles but mainly simular; more than that I also self-learn the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu in books and video, however it just some personal interest, some historical references for me in other styles, and I am not good enough to use it in sword fright yet. My weapon of choice is the japanese style great sword-the Nodachi. But I can also use katana, Chinese Jian(single hand or two handed), longsword or simular etc.
For sword collections, I have nearly 5-6 swords myself, currently selling 1 or 2 out (so it was 7-8), I got 2 nodachi, one with 91cm blade length and the other one got 104cm long blade; 1 chinese jian (single handed, liminated and DH blade); 1 chinese jian (two handed, TH, single steel), 1 unmounted katana, single steel with hamon etc. There was a wakizashi which is selling locally, but so far no one interested in yet; and the other one is my first cold steel katana(personally I love this one much, the quality and heattreatment is truly impressive), but this one I'd given to a friend to break it as a reference and example of a good sword. so I guess totally 6 now. Besides that, I still have 2 spear, 1 is 2 meter long, another is 2.15 meter long; and half dozen of wooden boken, 3 in nodachi style and 2 in katana style.
Recently I have rented a small place here to have my own workshop, to self-learn sword polishing art and sword making (mainly stock removal style) after offical working hours. Sometimes I use PC to design blades and swords, and currently still helping a friend (who opreated a 3 man forge in china) to design katana outlines voluntarily (Well, just an artist meet another artist who has same wish).Now I m having 2 sample of steel that I would like to try first, but still waitting my new resistance furnace to come. I am quite an amateur steel scholar, I guess it is some kind of personal interest in heat treating maybe~
And I also hope to know more guys(or ladies maybe) who have simular experience, which I will be very willing to have your guidance in any aspects. ^O^"
I guess its enough for my rough English XD~ (Sorry, not native speaker, and some Dysgraphia, but I am trying my best.)
Here are some of my collection:
(The one just sold, but in fact I love it very much, beautiful peice of art.you see the limination...but...rent..$$...sad.....)
I love the shape of this one, a naginata-naoshi style wakizashi, it not rare, but rare to have good outlooking and design
Some sword collections that I store at my workshop
This one is polishing, now its in "Binsui" state.
This is the Tsuba of my huge nodachi, its a 8mm thick solid mild-steel...and it was heavy, too heavy that upset the swords balance, so I modified it myself, sanded it from a square profile to round profile now and drill holes to reduce the weight, then re-blackening it (chemistry~) again. It was 420g and now 370g something............(well the whole sword is 2.1kg)
This is my pocket knief...not swords... :mrgreen:
Here are some pic from my 3 man forge friend's work
(There is some question you should not ask, the answer is nop~at least not now, hope you understand! Thanks!)
So, I guess I introduced as much as I can for myself, and looking forward to learn from you all! ^^
