Show Us Your High Class Gunto

[Leen]

Great package Neil

[vajo]

Neil the canvas cover gets more and more rare. Yours is in perfect condition. 

[Bryce]

G'day Guys,

 

A type 94 with a beautiful, light blade by the shinto smith Tango no Kami Kanemichi.

 

Cheers,

Bryce

[IJASWORDS]

Fantastic!! 

[Bruce Pennington]

That really is a nice blade Bryce! It looks longer than standard.

[Bryce]

Thanks guys,

The blade is longer than most you find in gunto koshirae, with a nagasa of 69.5cm.

Cheers,

Bryce

[PNSSHOGUN]

Very nice, is the Kabutogane pinned?

[Bryce]

G'day John,

No it isn't pinned.

Cheers,

Bryce

 

[Bryce]

G'day Guys,

 

A type 98 with a big, beefy shinshinto blade, 29 inch nagasa.

 

Cheers,

Bryce

 

[Stegel]

This thread WAS hard to find.... thought i'd add to it and bring it back to the top.

Not the best pictures, but a really nice blade to hold in hand and look at.

Ujifusa circa 1770

[dwmc]

This may not be the highest class Shin-gunto. However, I suspect it would be a welcome addition to a most collectors looking for a fairly nice looking gunto in good condition.

Also, as Stegel mentioned above, simply trying to keep the thread active!

 

Regards,

 

Dave M.

[Brian]

On 10/28/2020 at 5:20 AM, Stegel said:

This thread WAS hard to find....

 

Multiple options. Click the box to follow this thread and your always be able to find it though.

[francois2605]

Nice fittings, Dave. Thanks for sharing and keeping this thread alive

[Alex Genikov]

Hello,  let me put my two cents as well  

[Bruce Pennington]

1 hour ago, Alex Genikov said:

my two cents

Quite beautiful, Alexander.  Clearly custom fittings.  Do you know the significance of the hot stamp at the end of the nakago?  Do you know who the smith might have been?

[m4l700]

Time for me to show my gendai Ishido Teruhide mei with kao. Not sure if it would be considered 'high-end' but I absolutely enjoy it! Photographs are realy hard to take of blades, I hope the sword and the pictures speak for itself

The sword has a fully hardened kissaki(ichimai) if I am correct, hard to tell from pictures.

 

[francois2605]

7 hours ago, Alex Genikov said:

Hello,  let me put my two cents as well  

 

Gorgeous fittings ! This hada is quite something 😍

[Bruno]

10 hours ago, m4l700 said:

Nice gendaito!

 

Ishido Teruhide was a good and quite prolific smith. Too bad he rarely put a nengo on his nakago. 

 

Do you who did the polish?

 

 

 

[BANGBANGSAN]

10 hours ago, m4l700 said:

Time for me to show my gendai Ishido Teruhide mei with kao. Not sure if it would be considered 'high-end' but I absolutely enjoy it! Photographs are realy hard to take of blades, I hope the sword and the pictures speak for itself

The sword has a fully hardened kissaki(ichimai) if I am correct, hard to tell from pictures.

 

 

 

David

Nice sword!The flag is upside down.

 

 

 

[reeder]

These are two of my favorite blades. Not exactly high class gunto mounts, but top notch smiths and both with a nagasa of at least 27”. Top - Imai Sadashige. Bottom - Tomita Sukehiro.

[Bruno]

11 hours ago, reeder said:

Tomita Sukehiro was a top smith. I have a blade by the same group of smiths, all excellent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[m4l700]

13 hours ago, BANGBANGSAN said:

David

Nice sword!The flag is upside down.

 

Thanks for letting me know! I cant read kanji so unfortunately I have no clue what is up or down😅

 

 

15 hours ago, Bruno said:

Nice gendaito!

 

Ishido Teruhide was a good and quite prolific smith. Too bad he rarely put a nengo on his nakago. 

 

Do you who did the polish?

 

Thanks! The polish is done on order be me by a western (dutch)polisher. Yes I know what most people think of that, but with his 40 year experience, polished blades by him that got papers and the Japanese that are actually interested in his polishing I took the chance.

 

The blade was a wreck before and now I'm quite happy how it turned out.

[Bruno]

2 hours ago, m4l700 said:

 

Thanks for letting me know! I cant read kanji so unfortunately I have no clue what is up or down😅

 

 

 

Thanks! The polish is done on order be me by a western (dutch)polisher. Yes I know what most people think of that, but with his 40 year experience, polished blades by him that got papers and the Japanese that are actually interested in his polishing I took the chance.

 

The blade was a wreck before and now I'm quite happy how it turned out.

 

Hi David,

 

I am no expert in polishes so won't bother you with your choice! 😜 

 

May I ask you to post several close up photos of the nakago itself? I would like to see how good Teruhide  used to finish them (crisp lines and geometry, yasurime). Thanks

 

 

[Leen]

On 11/7/2020 at 11:15 AM, m4l700 said:

Time for me to show my gendai Ishido Teruhide mei with kao. Not sure if it would be considered 'high-end' but I absolutely enjoy it! Photographs are realy hard to take of blades, I hope the sword and the pictures speak for itself

The sword has a fully hardened kissaki(ichimai) if I am correct, hard to tell from pictures.

It turned out wonderfull David!
 

[hobnails]

HI a new acquisition, a type 98 with a shinto blade and a partial two body saiden mei

[Alex Genikov]

On 11/7/2020 at 3:35 PM, Bruce Pennington said:

Quite beautiful, Alexander.  Clearly custom fittings.  Do you know the significance of the hot stamp at the end of the nakago?  Do you know who the smith might have been?

Hello Bruce,   Thanks for your appreciation, but(fittings) its not as clear as it looks...

I do not know about the hot stamp. It maybe smith personal stamp or work shop mark.

As who the smith may be its a mystery. My friend from SF (LK) thinks its a Masatsune,  he has one with a very similar hataraki.

Pity a blade like this not signed 

[PNSSHOGUN]

A few Type 94.....

[IJASWORDS]

WOW, love the one with the BOHI. 

[BANGBANGSAN]

6 hours ago, IJASWORDS said:

WOW, love the one with the BOHI. 

That one with Bohi looks like Zuohei-to.

[gun addict]

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