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<p>[QUOTE="skyshark, post: 9767409, member: 79996"]I am not referencing any one specific, to be clear... </p><p><br /></p><p>But yes absolutely I have received some extremely pretentious opinions. Quite frankly some down right disrespectful opinions too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any Jewelry is right though, I tend to post without fulling thinking things through. Maybe I post out of emotion sometimes. I am working on that, for sure. This field is new to me. Antiquities in general throughout my whole life has never interested me. Despite what my items end up being, I now have an interest. </p><p><br /></p><p>My entire stance is... I know quality. I'm an Airborne (2x wings pinned on me) Veteran. I'm a very selfless person and very intelligent. I only know what I know though. What I know is my swords are very well made. Tons of time and detail was put into crafting these items. This I know for sure. The blades are so perfectly balanced is crazy... Pictures online do not show any depth. I have also not posted any picutres of the patina under a microscope... The crystal formations and pitting into the metal.... I mean its clearly oxidizing from the inside out.... Based on all that... I myself probably sound pretentious... because nothing so far as been a glaring definitive scientific fact that my items are forgeries. EXCEPT the style, since nothing found (that we know of) matches it. I want to argue as well that there is basically no oversight on antiquities and most items found reside in private collection. Any blacksmith or craftsman worth his weight would only be employed by one person, most of the time. So it is not out of the realm of possibilities there are items, tech, swords, anything.. That are ancient and unique and not found yet. Not documents. I could be wrong though... But I'm not wrong about the quality of these blades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="skyshark, post: 9767409, member: 79996"]I am not referencing any one specific, to be clear... But yes absolutely I have received some extremely pretentious opinions. Quite frankly some down right disrespectful opinions too. Any Jewelry is right though, I tend to post without fulling thinking things through. Maybe I post out of emotion sometimes. I am working on that, for sure. This field is new to me. Antiquities in general throughout my whole life has never interested me. Despite what my items end up being, I now have an interest. My entire stance is... I know quality. I'm an Airborne (2x wings pinned on me) Veteran. I'm a very selfless person and very intelligent. I only know what I know though. What I know is my swords are very well made. Tons of time and detail was put into crafting these items. This I know for sure. The blades are so perfectly balanced is crazy... Pictures online do not show any depth. I have also not posted any picutres of the patina under a microscope... The crystal formations and pitting into the metal.... I mean its clearly oxidizing from the inside out.... Based on all that... I myself probably sound pretentious... because nothing so far as been a glaring definitive scientific fact that my items are forgeries. EXCEPT the style, since nothing found (that we know of) matches it. I want to argue as well that there is basically no oversight on antiquities and most items found reside in private collection. Any blacksmith or craftsman worth his weight would only be employed by one person, most of the time. So it is not out of the realm of possibilities there are items, tech, swords, anything.. That are ancient and unique and not found yet. Not documents. I could be wrong though... But I'm not wrong about the quality of these blades.[/QUOTE]
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