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Hello guys,
I was against (and still am) any kind of self fix or polishing the blade of a sword, but I change my mind in some kinds of situations like I will tell you below:
I have five real swords (and some other decorative ones), three are katanas, the first one I had is a Kris Cutlery of 1991 (I think), it had some flaws (kizu) like some rust points and some risks, happily the flaws are in the back part and the hamon is perfect, because I tried to take care and oiling it very often. Like I mentioned in another thread I am waiting for the new KC model that should be reaching here till the end of this month (already paid), so I felt in temptation and do what I want to do much time ago, and tried to polish it by myself (like I will have the new one and if I damage te old one it would be not as bad, and to polish it in a right way it would be much more expensive that the own katana, so I tried).
I bought the most delicate nail file (not the comon ones) that I found, it seems like a papper with the consistence of a very little rough stone and passed it in a right line along the back part of this katana lots of times. After that I passed a polish paste called klintex in this part, I passed it more than a hundred times to let it shining and to disguise the little risks of the nail file, they not totally disapear, but it was shining and with the aspect of a recent polish, and I compare this result to some knives that are polish and if you look with a magnifying glass you can see little risks of the own polishing along the blade, but respecting the patern of straight lines along the blade. I saw a katana of my iaido sensei that was polish by a sword polisher here (of course not a master) and you can believe that the result was not very diferent. To me I consider the result excelent, It really was better than it was before, and if I did not know what I did if I first saw it I could think it was initially manufactured in that way (and I am very meticulous in examine a sword). Of course I did not touch the hamon, but only the hamon !!!
I am not telling you to do that but in that sword if function very well,
What you think???
PS: when I remove the blade of the handle I have a surprise, it was perfect after an aplication of klintex, I say that because in some years I do not remove it of the handle when I oil this blade, I only passed a common paper in the opening between the habaki and the blade, it seems that worked very well also. With my other swords I do everything all right, but I started to think that all that care very often would be not obligatorily necessary... Any comments???
I was against (and still am) any kind of self fix or polishing the blade of a sword, but I change my mind in some kinds of situations like I will tell you below:
I have five real swords (and some other decorative ones), three are katanas, the first one I had is a Kris Cutlery of 1991 (I think), it had some flaws (kizu) like some rust points and some risks, happily the flaws are in the back part and the hamon is perfect, because I tried to take care and oiling it very often. Like I mentioned in another thread I am waiting for the new KC model that should be reaching here till the end of this month (already paid), so I felt in temptation and do what I want to do much time ago, and tried to polish it by myself (like I will have the new one and if I damage te old one it would be not as bad, and to polish it in a right way it would be much more expensive that the own katana, so I tried).
I bought the most delicate nail file (not the comon ones) that I found, it seems like a papper with the consistence of a very little rough stone and passed it in a right line along the back part of this katana lots of times. After that I passed a polish paste called klintex in this part, I passed it more than a hundred times to let it shining and to disguise the little risks of the nail file, they not totally disapear, but it was shining and with the aspect of a recent polish, and I compare this result to some knives that are polish and if you look with a magnifying glass you can see little risks of the own polishing along the blade, but respecting the patern of straight lines along the blade. I saw a katana of my iaido sensei that was polish by a sword polisher here (of course not a master) and you can believe that the result was not very diferent. To me I consider the result excelent, It really was better than it was before, and if I did not know what I did if I first saw it I could think it was initially manufactured in that way (and I am very meticulous in examine a sword). Of course I did not touch the hamon, but only the hamon !!!
I am not telling you to do that but in that sword if function very well,
What you think???
PS: when I remove the blade of the handle I have a surprise, it was perfect after an aplication of klintex, I say that because in some years I do not remove it of the handle when I oil this blade, I only passed a common paper in the opening between the habaki and the blade, it seems that worked very well also. With my other swords I do everything all right, but I started to think that all that care very often would be not obligatorily necessary... Any comments???
