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?
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