You know... I'm starting to think the fine horizontal lines in the fullers may be an intentional embellishment, not tooling marks. These last two pics I posted show it well. It gives the blade a cool look and I would expect there would be other areas on the piece which looked un-finished if this was not intentional. The rest of the blade, the crossguard, and the pommel are all nicely finished. So is the wood and scabbard for that matter. Hmmmm.
ps- the scratches on the blade between the fuller and the cutting edge is just a little runner wear from going in and out of the scabbard.
