Having a bit of fun trying to photograph - with a cell phone - something that I’d mentioned before. That some stones can put a kind of dark line between the jigane and hagane. It will be difficult to photograph without a professional lighting, but I managed to get enough of it to illustrate what I was talking about.
The knife is a vintage Takeda ko bunka and the stone is a shiro ceiling suita that I got from Max years ago. If you look closely, you can see the dark line at the interface on part of the bevel. It’s there all along the bevel, but the light was just right in that area for it to show up in the image. Anyone else notice this effect?
The knife is a vintage Takeda ko bunka and the stone is a shiro ceiling suita that I got from Max years ago. If you look closely, you can see the dark line at the interface on part of the bevel. It’s there all along the bevel, but the light was just right in that area for it to show up in the image. Anyone else notice this effect?

