Scogg Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 Here’s an example of a shallow Nagoya (名) blade stamp found on another genuine example. You can imagine how it might look after being chromed 1 Quote
Jetblack2013 Posted January 14 Author Report Posted January 14 Any help on what to look for on a 98? I know the blade isn’t the standard. Could it be an older blade? Quote
Rawa Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Jetblack2013 said: Any help on what to look for on a 98? I know the blade isn’t the standard. Could it be an older blade? Showato with seki stamp. Kane something. In download section on forum you have nice article about stamps. Dunno how describe „standard” of gunto. One mekugi ana is a standard in 94/98 gunto type. Here you have 2 so for beginning: https://japaneseswordindex.com/showato.htm then article about stamps then for koshirae: http://ohmura-study.net/900.html then books Edited January 14 by Rawa Quote
Jetblack2013 Posted January 14 Author Report Posted January 14 6 minutes ago, Rawa said: Dunno how describe „standard” of gunto. Weren’t a lot of them mass produced in factories? I assume there was a standard, across the board blade for a lot of them. Quote
Rawa Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 (edited) 1 minute ago, Jetblack2013 said: Weren’t a lot of them mass produced in factories? I assume there was a standard, across the board blade for a lot of them. So go for links first. Anyone else have maybe some thread about proper learning road? Edited January 14 by Rawa Quote
Jetblack2013 Posted January 14 Author Report Posted January 14 8 minutes ago, Rawa said: So go for links first. Anyone else have maybe some thread about proper learning road? Ok finished the first link. Takeaway was “there are no hard and fast rules” Haha. 1 Quote
Rawa Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Jetblack2013 said: Ok finished the first link. Takeaway was “there are no hard and fast rules” Haha. Gunto- military sword. It’s all about koshirae, then you can divide by sword for showato and gendaito. Royal decree’s established specifications for gunto type - mountings/koshirae Edited January 14 by Rawa 2 Quote
Brian Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 Even mass produced Gunto were still hammered/individually constructed by smiths. Only the Type 95 was machine made and stamped out and fairly uniform. The rest still vary and you can't just interchange parts and scabbards. 1 Quote
Rawa Posted January 14 Report Posted January 14 (edited) Gendaito as fully traditional and showato as the rest - you can run whatever division you want and still end here. I'm adding once again division by manufacturing method. Edited January 14 by Rawa 1 Quote
Jetblack2013 Posted Wednesday at 01:48 PM Author Report Posted Wednesday at 01:48 PM I shouldn’t have used the word standard. I just meant I thought there were expectations. Like not putting a hole through the signature. Quote
Scogg Posted Wednesday at 03:05 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 03:05 PM Hi Nick, Decent looking Type 98 with non traditional blade. You are conveniently located for some hands-on sword viewing. I would recommend maybe getting your hands on a few swords before you decide what you'd like to buy. I would first encourage you to read (so that you don't offend anyone handling their sword): https://swordsofjapan.com/nihonto-library/nbthk-etiquette/ Then I would maybe reach out to @ChrisW about his regional sword club: https://indianatokenkai.wixsite.com/indiana-token-kai Also, this is coming up, I'm not sure how close you are, but much closer than me! : https://www.sosovms.com/Show_of_Shows/ Best of luck in your search! There's no shortage of things to learn along the way. My only advice there would be to be patient, and go slow. Sincerely, -Sam 1 Quote
John C Posted Wednesday at 03:07 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 03:07 PM Nick: Not sure if it was covered yet, the smith is Ando Kanemoto. John C. 1 1 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted Wednesday at 03:15 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 03:15 PM 9 hours ago, Jetblack2013 said: Any help on what to look for on a 98? I know the blade isn’t the standard. Could it be an older blade? Nick, Other than the second ana, this one is a really good example of a standard WWII officer sword. The large Seki stamp puts the date between 1940 - 1945 with the most likely date of 1942. 1 1 Quote
Jetblack2013 Posted Wednesday at 04:09 PM Author Report Posted Wednesday at 04:09 PM 1 hour ago, Scogg said: Hi Nick, Decent looking Type 98 with non traditional blade. You are conveniently located for some hands sword viewing. I would recommend maybe getting your hands on a few swords before you decide what you'd like to buy. I would first encourage you to read (so that you don't offend anyone handling their sword): https://swordsofjapan.com/nihonto-library/nbthk-etiquette/ Then I would maybe reach out to @ChrisW about his regional sword club: https://indianatokenkai.wixsite.com/indiana-token-kai Also, this is coming up, I'm not sure how close you are, but much closer than me! : https://www.sosovms.com/Show_of_Shows/ Best of luck in your search! There's no shortage of things to learn along the way. My only advice there would be to be patient, and go slow. Sincerely, -Sam Thank you for the links. I’ll look into each of them. This sword sold within an hour of me posting it on here. 😂 Quote
ChrisW Posted Wednesday at 04:24 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 04:24 PM Hello Nick! I'll reach out to you in just a moment ~Chris 1 Quote
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