I have for sale, a beautiful Joe Walters shobu zukuri with a nice gentle suguha style hamon, with some nie / nuoi. The signed mei shows that it was forged in 2001.
The blade is around 11.5" nagasa, with a dramatic sori of about 0.3".
The habaki is hand-forged textured copper with gold stippling.
Comes with Joe's original unique tree-bark koshirae, and a very special dense & heavy york gum burl (an Australian hardwood) koshirae I commissioned from an Australian maker. Has polished buffalo horn fittings. The chatouyance of the york gum burl is just plain amazing, especially with the very well done piano lacquer style finish. It's a piece of art by itself.
The tree bark koshirae fits very well after I tightened the fit, the york gum burl koshirae is a little tight (to compensate for plenty of future sheathing and unsheathing) - you can easily sandpaper the koiguchi a bit more if you want it looser.
Finally, this worthy blade was given a full traditional Japanese polish by Brandon Thell.....it is just amazing.
Here are some pics from Brandon, the original pic from Joe's website, and an amateur pic by me of both the blade and the koshirae.
This has been a long and costly (for me
) project but this one belongs to someone who can afford to keep it. I need the cash for Christmas bills.
The price reflects what I have in it plus a little Christmas kindness . You will be very happy with this tanto.
$XXXSOLDXXX, includes express shipping (5 days), 3.5% paypal fees, both koshirae and the magic of Brandon's fantastic polish.
I will accept a mint Viper 4 (MV-4) with thick liners and zero grind (must be scary sharp) and $650 cash top up via paypal for this.
Please email me at jameskoji@gmail.com if interested.
The blade is around 11.5" nagasa, with a dramatic sori of about 0.3".
The habaki is hand-forged textured copper with gold stippling.
Comes with Joe's original unique tree-bark koshirae, and a very special dense & heavy york gum burl (an Australian hardwood) koshirae I commissioned from an Australian maker. Has polished buffalo horn fittings. The chatouyance of the york gum burl is just plain amazing, especially with the very well done piano lacquer style finish. It's a piece of art by itself.
The tree bark koshirae fits very well after I tightened the fit, the york gum burl koshirae is a little tight (to compensate for plenty of future sheathing and unsheathing) - you can easily sandpaper the koiguchi a bit more if you want it looser.
Finally, this worthy blade was given a full traditional Japanese polish by Brandon Thell.....it is just amazing.
Here are some pics from Brandon, the original pic from Joe's website, and an amateur pic by me of both the blade and the koshirae.
This has been a long and costly (for me
) project but this one belongs to someone who can afford to keep it. I need the cash for Christmas bills.The price reflects what I have in it plus a little Christmas kindness
. You will be very happy with this tanto.$XXXSOLDXXX, includes express shipping (5 days), 3.5% paypal fees, both koshirae and the magic of Brandon's fantastic polish.
I will accept a mint Viper 4 (MV-4) with thick liners and zero grind (must be scary sharp) and $650 cash top up via paypal for this.
Please email me at jameskoji@gmail.com if interested.
