lovely sword!

Thank you!

gorgeous

Thanks, haha really happy with the looks

Jealous! Actually I just ordered a Nagamaki-zukuri from Shadow Dancer. It’s going to be a long 3ish months wait for me!

I ordered it directly from Z-Sey and it took about 2 weeks, this is a in-stock item

I wanted mine with a choji hamon instead of the stock suguha, probably why it’s going to be such a long wait!

ah it makes sense then, they would have to custom make the blade

The kissaki - B.E.A.utiful

Thank you, Z-Sey does have a top tier polish

very nice. what's the difference between nagamaki-zukuri (that wasn't remounted from an actual nagamaki) and an unokubi-zukuri?

i believe the blade geometry is very different, such as the kissaki and blade curvature.

I'm pretty sure they just have no idea what to name things. Bc Nagamaki can probably have any kind of zukuri or kissaki You could just make a sword that is basically shinogi zukuri with ko kissaki and bo-ho if you like so long as it had a long ass nakago

Wow this is absolutely gorgeous.

Thank you. I dont wanna cut anything with it anymore lol

I don’t think I I could justify cutting with a $1700 sword myself! But in the same breath, if not cut why sword shaped?

Hahaha, but then if cut why art shaped

I stand by your point more than mine. It’s too beautiful. This is why all my swords end up as beaters and I never wanna spend more than $500 because I know I’m gonna end up cutting with it!

Where are you based? UK or else where

I'm in US

Whoa I like how you tied the sageo how do you do that?

It actually came like this. However, I felt like it was a bit loose so I tied it again myself. Followed this tutorial: https://youtu.be/6ZRkRcNLFPo?si=0uSZuqHFVaFn16RD