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I cut out the blue blanks for the sanke plate and also the body. It is always very interesting to see a AJS GC koi built element by element. The body on this sanke is very powerful as everyone knows.
As I started cutting and shaping the beni elements I was struck by how elegant the beni pattern is on this koi. Most of us have missed the elegant beni markings on jumbo koi when pushed/selected to produce larger and larger koi the quality of the patterns have often taken a step or two backwards to gain size. Jumbo size seems to usually go along with more primitive and heavier one and two step patterns.
I was really struck by the beautiful kohaku pattern on this huge sanke. A elegant and surprizing four step pattern. I stopped and took this photo capturing just the kohaku pattern before continuing to cut and shape the sumi markings.
Somehow making these plates depicting the greatest koi every developed helps me to better understand their uniqueness.
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