From Japan mostly

[Parabellus]

 

[d762nato]

You've got some cool pieces there, congrats. :thumbup:

 

[Highlander 20026]

hmm the top katanas are from japan? they do not have the classic hamon line, they look through hardened, that isn't traditional with Japanese made Katana

 

[Bigfattyt]

Nice. You should drop on in to the sword forum and post.

As to the hamon on the longer blades, it may just be angle of light, or they may be in need of a professional polish. It is often very hard to get a light hamon to show in pictures, even when the blade is not in less than new condition.

 

[Parabellus]

hmm the top katanas are from japan? they do not have the classic hamon line, they look through hardened, that isn't traditional with Japanese made Katana

As to the hamon on the longer blades, it may just be angle of light, or they may be in need of a professional polish. It is often very hard to get a light hamon to show in pictures, even when the blade is not in less than new condition.

The hamon of the wakizashi is more evident than that of the katana.Both Shinto blades came to me with lots of black finger marks requiring considerable work to remove. There are still many blemishes all over them as well as the shoto blade which shows no discernible hamon. I mounted them in tsuka, tsuba, habaki, & saya from replica swords that I had previously. The tanto is modern production probably not Japanese. The old blades surly deserve professional polishing but that is way beyond my current budget.
Of the long weapons the yari is 100% original except for the leather wrap. The naginata blade I restored and remade fashioning the new staff to a teardrop cross section and weighting the butt end.

The nunti and chiang I made decades ago from a current production manji sai and chiang tou.
All this stems from an insatiable interest in martial arts dating back to the seventies. I had always wished to practice iaido with a real katana. I have learned to do so very carefully.irate:

 

[Highlander 20026]

The hamon of the wakizashi is more evident than that of the katana.Both Shinto blades came to me with lots of black finger marks requiring considerable work to remove. There are still many blemishes all over them as well as the shoto blade which shows no discernible hamon. I mounted them in tsuka, tsuba, habaki, & saya from replica swords that I had previously. The tanto is modern production probably not Japanese. The old blades surly deserve professional polishing but that is way beyond my current budget.
Of the long weapons the yari is 100% original except for the leather wrap. The naginata blade I restored and remade fashioning the new staff to a teardrop cross section and weighting the butt end.

The nunti and chiang I made decades ago from a current production manji sai and chiang tou.
All this stems from an insatiable interest in martial arts dating back to the seventies. I had always wished to practice iaido with a real katana. I have learned to do so very carefully.irate:

ahh ok, ya that is pretty faint, harder to tell in the first pictures for sure, just so many fakes out there you have to be careful for sure, alot of good chinese copies