I'm in Timonium, and pressed for time as my laptop's battery is running low and the charger is home in Florida.
However, let me say I really enjoy your interpretive designs, Antonio, and not just that dha which, of course, I
really like. Some of your Japanese inspired swords are attractive to me in ways most Japanese swords are not.
I'm one of those collectors that likes to
aquire. However, I really obsess about only one particular form at a time. For some years, it has been dha, and I luxuriate in the seemingly endless variations and interpretations seen from the original culture. I think it's perfectly acceptable to arrive at one's own interpretation of a weapon form. These are
things, after all, and so long as they are not presented as something they are not, I'm not interested in entertaining criticism of my "failure" to adhere to conservation of the original.
My interpretation of a Thai
darb designed with and executed by sword maker John Lundemo:
