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Originally Posted by benny.lee
Chinese saber blade with twistcore AND a horse tooth hamon
Interested in this.
Are there any more pictures?
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Here is a Chinese sword with a similar pattern from an old post.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=horse+tooth
Now this is something I have not heard about before.
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Originally Posted by Philip
There is no question that this saber is "the real McCoy" and is definitely not a modern repro.
However, a reader expressed doubts that this technique is used at present, and this post addresses this point only.
Yes, the "machi" (horse tooth) has been made recently by some Japanese smiths, following the tradition of the Gassan (moon mountain) sword school, which was said to have been founded centuries ago by an immigrant smith from China. Also, a contemporary swordsmith named Vincent Evans here in the US has made several Chinese style blades with this same equine dentition.
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The Japanese tanto I posted is from the Gassan school, so supposedly there is a connection between the Chinese and Japanese Gassan school which might explain the Gassan wave like pattern , very interesting. Anyone see a similarity in the Chinese and Japanese pattern?