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Cool info. A buddy of mine recently acquired a Yoshihara Yoshindo sword. I should get to see it in the next few months. I'll try and take some photos if possible and post them.
 
Interesting that the site is british one for preserving Japanese swords. They are now illegal in britain and on a BBC program I saw a Japanese style sword in a pile of edge tools being sent for destruction.
 
brownshoe said:
Interesting that the site is british one for preserving Japanese swords. They are now illegal in britain and on a BBC program I saw a Japanese style sword in a pile of edge tools being sent for destruction.
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No kidding!? Britain has a very active Japanese sword study group. What a shame. Are kitchen knives illegal? How about scalpels? Maybe we should stop doing surgery lest some crazed patient steal a scalpel blade and hijack an airliner...:jerkit:
 
The BBC show had lots of knives that were turned in. They didn't focus on the law, because it was assumed you already knew. I believe that all knives that can be classified as weapons are illegal whether carried or not, that's why they had the big knife turn in. Not sure about kitchen knives, but there was some in the pile.
 
xuesheng said:
No kidding!? Britain has a very active Japanese sword study group. What a shame. Are kitchen knives illegal? How about scalpels? Maybe we should stop doing surgery lest some crazed patient steal a scalpel blade and hijack an airliner...:jerkit:
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I read that they recently passed this completely asinine law in Britain where it is now illegal to possess any blade with a sharp point that is over a certain length. So believe it or not, that makes large kitchen knives with pointy tips illegal. I don't know what the length limit is for a pointy-tip blade, but I would presume that scalpels come in under the limit. They are probably going to start selling large chef knives with rounded tips. The legislators have gone completely out of their minds over there, IMO. First they ban the carry of *any* locking folder, now this.

Back to the subject of Yoshindo Yoshihara, there was an exhibit featuring his work at our local Pacific Asian museum last year for about 6 months. My wife and I went to check it out, and it completely blew us away. The guy's hamon work is unparalleled, too bad his katana prices start at $35,000, a little out of my range.
 
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