Chinese Fake?

[GrozaB]

Picked up a sword on the gun show yesterday. The tsuka was completely covered with old home-boy style wrapping,  so it was no access to mekugi... But anyway, bade looked good, so was the price.

At home I remove the ugly cord and under it was very old wrapping done with very thin(1.5-2mm leather string) that was already falling apart. Wood and ito looks good and old. Blade itself is very is pretty well done and handled much better, then most shin-gunt I saw in my life. Good kissaki, good bo hi. But after I removed tsuka - here is the ugliest nakago I saw in long time...

What the point to forge good blade, take all troubles do the good kissaki, cut the bo hi and make nakago like this?

[christianmalterre]

the word "Fake" should normally signalise a "certain though quality"...

 

(on this point you would agree with me?????)

 

this 1060- 1065 steel blade (in antique finnish...  )

 

 

????

 

( instantly do hope you´ll agree with me, that even the slightest backdoor dumper from cross the road- could do this.)

 

no need to set a call on native Chinese fakers!

 

the Chinese (would) do it definitely very much better! 

 

 

Christian

[SAS]

Maybe a shin-gunto that used to have a life in a different koshirae and then was mangled to fit something else???

[Dave R]

Spent part of it's life as a Kyu-Gunto?

[vajo]

I would follow Dave. Looks like a old blade to fit in a Kyu-Gunto Koshirae

[Dave R]

 I have one very like it, an old blade with a mangled nakago and a "pinched" area near the nakago-jiri. In my case the blade itself is nowhere near as nice, being so worn and tired that it is not worth any sort of polish.

 

What is the habaki like?

[ROKUJURO]

Have a look at both ends of the BOHI. That is not Japanese work; even very late WW II GUNTO have a better finish. The same applies to the NAKAGO.The 'grinding' of the blade, especially of the KISSAKI, the rounded SHINOGI, and the different positions of HA-MACHI and MUNE-MACHI let me believe this to be an attempt of a copy.