Japanese

[brymway]

Does anyown know of any sites with some good pics of japanese blacksmiths or bladesmiths at work? I want to see their setup and them at work.

Thanks
Brock

 

[F. Allin Kahrl]

If you can't find any sites, there's a great book called "The Craft of the Japanese sword by Leon Kapp, et al (Amazon sells it) with a lot of great pictures and descriptions of the process.

-Allin

 

[yuzuha]

There are some pictures scattered around Shinichi's site like the ones on the bottom of this page: http://www.watanabeblade.com/english/pro/index.htm