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One of our SFNS students, James San, bought this Naginata in 2008. Our Sensei and Steve San did the restoration work accordingly. It was completed in the 3rd week of September, 2009. At the time of purchase, this Naginata was very rusty, heavily pitted, having Hineri, Uneri and Magari (twists and bends) in the blade. We have some photos before the restoration work, however, they are not presentable at this time. Hopefully, we will be posting the photos during the 1st week of November, 2009. Some photos of the post-restoration work have been taken and are here for your inspection.
The restoration work details as the following: 1. A brand new Habaki-gane was constructed and silver-plated. 2. The shaft was constructed, however, we did not mount the Ishizuki since James San was not able to obtain the Ishizuki. 3. The Kenma ( Polish ) has been completed. We have removed a little more than 3% of the blade total metal since it was heavily pitted. 4. The Saya was constructed with the Ho-no-ki, imported from Japan in the 1970's. This Ho-no-ki was kept in our Sensei residence since the mid 1980's. The size of the Ho-no-ki before construction was 2 x 5 x 20. Our Sensei performed the 5 items of Naginata restoration work in August and September, 2009.
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