[Excessum]

Originally Posted by SHAD0W

Wow, Ex. You know your stuff when it comes to swords!

You reminded me of solid snake talking about a gun

Dude... don't mention guns in my vicinity, or you might find yourself involved in a overwhelmingly one-sided conversation 8)

Originally Posted by bman4449

Wow. Thank you SO much for your input, Excessum. I posted this mostly for my dad, who owns the sword. He's been awfully curious about it for years and I'm sure he'll be glad to hear news about it.

Yup, that's Type 98 all right... most probably made after 1942, since it doesn't look like the early models - way too crude, even by the shin gunto standards of the time. They were running low on metal supplies back then (guess why?!), so they made everything as simple as possible, paying little-to-no attention to details.

Btw, is the blade rattling when you shake the sword a bit? Or is it still sitting tight?

Now... I am wondering if someone will translate the text on the cloth part. It's interesting, really to see where this sword came from =)

PS. And no problem... I am happy to help.

Originally Posted by VampireGirl1314

i dont know much about swords but......
THAT STUBA IS AWESOME...>^_^<

You think this is nice? It was cut out by a friggin machine!

Feast your eyes at this baby:



Or take a look at ギャラリーサムライへ

Or just punch in "Tsuba" in google image search... you will be amazed =)