handmade shin gunto kabuto gane

[lonely panet]

Hello gentlemen,

i hope were all well and collecting madly,

 

iv just been given a tsuka for a shingunto that has a kabuto gane that looks to completely handmade, and pinned to the handle using small nails.

 

has anybody seen one like it before?

 

regards Hamish

PS if stu C from tassie is reading this please email me i have lost your number

[george trotter]

Hi Hamish,

No not handmade. In fact it is the most common of the standard Type 94 and 98 Pattern fitting. What is different about yours is that it has been personally fitted to your tsuka to give a special effect. Yours is in fact not a kabuto gane but an ishidzuke (from the bottom end of the scabbard) and it has had small holes drilled into the four "circles" in the border design to take the tacks.

If you look at a standard set of Type 98 fittings you will see this fitting on the saya and the kabuto gane will have a "bar" running across to hold the "blossom" that holds the threaded collars for the sarute.

Regards,

[lonely panet]

Hi George

 

thanks for the quick reply,

 

i did compare the tsuka to one of my shingunto saya's but it was actually sizeably larger, but the shape did look abit odd to me.

thankyou for your advice George, not just one this subject but on all the other military subjects that i have needed advice on.

 

the tsuka did come off a rough gunto, but the blade turned out to signed by a gassen school smith using sadakazu's name ???? the blade was polished in Japan and the sword was looked at and was said tobe signed under dai saku??

 

i will just keep him as a ww2 oddity

 

regards Hamish

[lonely panet]

Hi all, im still unsure about this gunto fitting

 

 

 

regards Hamish