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Could you not keep an eye out for a blade of the proper size and not particularly valuable and adjust it to fit the fittings? After all it is they that are the attraction - not the blade itself - I may even have one in the shop that would be close for display purposes

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morning all,

please don't remount it, all you will have is a PUT TOGEATHER piece, and there is no shortage of those on the market.

 

The lack of a mekugiana, point outs that the blade would be held in the tsuka by a threaded nut on the end of the nakago. this usally means the blade fitted to this koshare would have had a lot of reshaping done to the nakago.

 

I have seen traditional blades which have and this done, and traditional nihonto collectors don't think highty of them, using the term

"molested" to describe them.

 

just my humble thoughts

regards Hamish

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Woah! Easy everyone.

 

The original response regarding books was I think directed at the reply which suggested that this was a kyu gunto. We all agree that once you start to learn about nihonto then you would be well advised to spend some money on books but let's not pile in on that one just yet.

 

Andrew, our expertise is often in limited areas of the subject, hence what you might see as conflicting advice. Some people are very interested in swords of the type you posted, others specialise in gendaito, others will have a particular period or school that they are devoted to. Everyone wants to help, just that some advice is better than others for any particular topic.

 

This is a rare mount and should be preserved as such but fitting a blade to it will not do anyone any good as several people have pointed out. It is well worth collecting from the point of view of those interested in military swords, many collectors would not be interested as their focus would be the blade itself. Someone has removed the blade, possibly because it was damaged beyond repair, possibly because they thought they would get more for the blade alone, who knows? Stick with it and this is a fascinating hobby whatever avenue of collecting you decide to go down.

 

All the best.

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Woah! Easy everyone.

 

...I think directed at the reply which suggested that this was a kyu gunto...

 

I misspoke and am a knucklehead - Sadly, I do own books that would tell me otherwise - I didn't take the time to pull one out because I was trying to understand what the big 'mystery' was. Gladly, I didn't take the time since and oddly my life still feels complete.

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