How common are gunto blades repurposed as knives/shortswords/machetes?

Pitt1999 · 24th August 2022, 06:23 PM

On the Nihonto Message Board forum I see in some threads posts mentioning that alot of gunto after the second world war were cut up or shortened and remade into knives or shortswords and sold to the occupying soldiers. A thread that I was a part of had a post talking about farmers after the war making crude and simple mounts for gunto blades to use them as working blades. I have a picture from an old ebay auction that I think is the top third of a gunto blade remounted as a wakizashi, but other than this photo I have trouble finding examples of knives and swords like these. Anyone here have any examples of something like I'm describing?

24th August 2022, 06:23 PM	#1
Pitt1999 Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Posts: 105	How common are gunto blades repurposed as knives/shortswords/machetes? On the Nihonto Message Board forum I see in some threads posts mentioning that alot of gunto after the second world war were cut up or shortened and remade into knives or shortswords and sold to the occupying soldiers. A thread that I was a part of had a post talking about farmers after the war making crude and simple mounts for gunto blades to use them as working blades. I have a picture from an old ebay auction that I think is the top third of a gunto blade remounted as a wakizashi, but other than this photo I have trouble finding examples of knives and swords like these. Anyone here have any examples of something like I'm describing? Attached Images