pots on the blade, and, lo, a fortnight's patient work was wasted, a patron offended, a reputation marred. No less important than the smith's skill was that of the polisher grinding away the blade to its final shape, settling the planes and the curves, whose intersections are geometrically true on…
Yamanaka & Company · Swords
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