As Requested: More Masahiro 1045 Katana Pics

The bare naked blade.

this is a great shot of the Bo of the sword along with the Tsuka in picture. Most people ask how to stand a sword up like this- the answer is you can't. I had my hand tilting the blade straight up, which is out of the picture. Otherwise great shot.

End of the blade, including the kissaki. As you will notice in this picture and the next one, I have kept the kissaki extremely sharp, and the smiths who built the blade did an excellent job compounding the metal to help it keep an edge: the kissaki is EXTREMELY well rounded and sharp.

Hamon shot. Sorry for the bluriness.

Got some reader mail that I was going to be strangled to death if I didn't post more pics of my 1045 Masahiro Katana (Oro 0___0). Here you go! Enjoy! (There were also folks that were interested in if I move furniture around or something in my pad. I actually don't move the furniture; but a lot of the furniture moves around in different ways. I also cycle wall scrolls every now and then.