Yabbie75

It is Matt only mum calls me Matthew(but my mates actually call me Yabbie something to do with being snappy). Anyhow so the Tsuba orientation you’ve just explained means it would be carried blade up? Clearly they didn’t pay much attention when fitting the army handle as the Tsuba was therefore back to front.

Cheers Dale. Can you tell me about the chipping around the blade opening. Is that from the forming of the hole or from use? And since I didn’t pay attention as I was taking apart should it face the handle or the blade.

When you say upside down do you mean the photo orientation or flip the actual Tsuba over? what’s sort of oil do you suggest? And when you say don’t clean the cut out, do you mean the blade cut out. Sorry for all the questions but still learning about nohinto.

I think I may have sorted it out guys thanks for you advice.

Thanks for the info guys. I am using phone or iPad to take photos. I’ll see if I can work it out.

Thanks for your inspiring comment. Really helpful. Maybe you could give me a run down on how to upload photos bigger than 2.93MB as the photo I posted was the only clear photo I could get that was small enough to upload. I have lots of correctly oriented photos with great detail I would love to upload. Also if it’s possible a link to the proper posting etiquette for the message board might help us impolite newbies from offending you.

Hopefully this is a little easier to see.

Hi All, Could anyone give me any info about my Tsuba?

Thanks A lot guys looks like I’ve got some to do.

Yeah right. What does type 98 mean? When you say older blade do you have an idea of age? I’m not planning on selling so what do people tend to do with them? Restore or leave in go condition?

I was wondering if anyone could give me some info on this sword. What I know is it came home from New Guinea with my grandfather after he was wounded in battle at Gona around end of 1942 - start of 1943. Not sure if he got it from the battle field or later after recovering in Port Moresby. The force they encountered were IJA 55th Division & IJA 17th Army,South Seas Force. It sat on top his wardrobe until it was passed onto me 20 years ago. The handle appears to have been replaced at some point as hole in tang has been redrilled. No defining markings under the handle.