kiku Posted March 9, 2008 Report Posted March 9, 2008 Hallo to all, I am going to buy a new sword. Seperated koshirae and blade. To mount the blade into the koshirae it is nessesarry to make a new hole into the nakago. My problem is that at the hozon papers are just two holes and after mountig there are tree. Can somebody tell me if that is a big prblem? and if please tell me what kind of. Thank you to every body. Sebastian Quote
Brian Posted March 9, 2008 Report Posted March 9, 2008 Sebastian, I would never drill another ana in the nakago to fit the blade to another tsuka. Certainly, this cannot have any advantage at all to the preservation of the sword or its value. Especially if it has hozon papers! Rather get an expert to modify the tsuka, or take it apart and use the fittings to make a new tsuka to match the nakago. My opinion...don't do it! Brian Quote
John A Stuart Posted March 9, 2008 Report Posted March 9, 2008 That's for sure. new mekugiana only need to be made if the machi moved radically and the nakago reshaped, major work. Easier and more responsible to fit the tsuka to the sword not the other way around. After all you do not cut your toes to fit your boots. John Quote
Grey Doffin Posted March 10, 2008 Report Posted March 10, 2008 You could cut a new ana, but then it would be much easier and achieve the same results, if you instead gathered together a bunch of your money and set it on fire. Don't do this! Please! Grey 1 Quote
USMC-LCPL Posted March 10, 2008 Report Posted March 10, 2008 You could cut a new ana, but then it would be much easier and achieve the same results, if you instead gathered together a bunch of your money and set it on fire. Grey Quote of the Day Quote
kiku Posted March 10, 2008 Author Report Posted March 10, 2008 Hallo again, the reason why I thought about doing this is just because a found a Ito maki no tachi koshirae and this is just with zunagi and it has also hozon papers. I would like to have a "complet" mounted tachi with blade and thats why I thounght about the new mekuki ana. It is absolutly not possible to make a new tsuka. I dont know what to do and thats why I asked for oppinions. Thank you agian Best Sebastian Quote
Brian Posted March 10, 2008 Report Posted March 10, 2008 Sebastian, There is very little chance that the inside of the tsuka is going to fit perfectly and just need the ana repositioned. It will either be too tight, too loose, or just sloppy. Good for you, for asking opinions first. But all the opinions agree, so I guess there isn't any doubt. You have a sword with papers. And a koshirae with papers and tsunagi. Putting them together like you want to do is going to do serious damage to the blade. Extra mekugi-ana are something we live with in old swords due to the fact that we cannot do anythign about it. But it is never something we desire, and would be a very bad idea. Yes..I think your papers showing only 2 ana are going to devalue your sword when they can prove that the new ana was done recently. Everything says don't do it. A professional tsuka-shi can fill the old hole perfectly and drill a new one in the tsuka to match the existing ana. This only if the tsuka fits the new nakago perfectly (which I doubt) Not sure how this would affect the papers on the koshirae though. Brian Quote
USMC-LCPL Posted March 10, 2008 Report Posted March 10, 2008 Perhaps you just need to accept the fact that you have a set of beautiful and authentic Koshirae, a quality nihonto and that the two are not meant to be together. Why do you feel the need to fill that set of Koshirae with a blade? Why not display them, and put your sword in Shirasaya instead? Quote
johnb Posted March 12, 2008 Report Posted March 12, 2008 Even if the blade seems to fit the saya there's a fair chance that it may rub here and there as the saya has not been tailored for the blade. Eventually you may end up with bruises and marks on the blade from takingt it and replacing it in the saya. Best I think to do as suggested in all the posts. Quote
Guest Simon Rowson Posted March 17, 2008 Report Posted March 17, 2008 In all honesty I can't believe that I still see queries like this. A person who knows enough about Nihonto to buy a papered blade and koshirae should also know enough not to **** about with the nakago in any way whatsover let alone drill another mekugi ana in it in order to cobble together some "Frankenstein's monster" of a sword. It reminds me of an arms fair in Nottingham many years ago where a pimply youth with an aluminium iaito and a large wad of cash wanted to buy a very nice antique tsuba and then "file it's hole a bit bigger" so it would fit on his "precious" blade. After declaring this intention, the dealer swiftly took the tsuba back and, ignoring the pre-offered cash, advised the said youth to take his iaito and put it somewhere very painful indeed. More money than sense in both cases, perhaps? Quote
Guest Simon Rowson Posted March 17, 2008 Report Posted March 17, 2008 I've just re-read my last comment and it seems a trifle harsh - for which I apologise. It just sounded to me like someone having a nice 19th Century French painting with authentication papers stating which artist and school produced it and then the owner finds a beautiful 19th Century frame which will complement the painting perfectly - so long as he trims 2 inches off the canvas, including the artist's signature! Anyhow, didn't mean to rant. Quote
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