{"id":3419,"date":"2020-11-25T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2020-12-19T04:43:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:43:24","slug":"ryujin-wwii-gunto-back-in-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/ryujin-wwii-gunto-back-in-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryujin WWII Gunto Back in Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> This is pretty amazing, but it was sold out within a month of the new stock landing! Looks like aficionados know a bargain when they see one &#8211; buy makes it hard to keep in stock!<\/p><cite>Updated mid December, 2020<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is one of Ryuin&#8217;s most popular swords &#8211; and is an extremely faithful recreation of a Japanese NCO blade from the second world war &#8211; not just in appearance, but also in its handling and statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a comparison to an antique (top). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"977\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gunto-comparison2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gunto-comparison2.jpg 977w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gunto-comparison2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gunto-comparison2-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gunto-comparison2-233x150.jpg 233w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gunto-comparison2-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And a recent review on the SBG forum has the following summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;To summarize, this is probably the very best modern Type 98 shin gunto  reproduction currently available as a production sword, is equal to the  originals in usability, and very nearly in quality and appearance.    It&#8217;s a great cutter as well.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also probably priced as low as  something of this quality possibly can be.&nbsp; For what you get, it&#8217;s a  genuine bargain.&nbsp; WW II military re-enactors take note.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-forum.forums.net\/thread\/59981\/ryujin-steel-budget-gunto-katana\">&#8211; treeslicer, SBG Forum Review <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if all that wasn&#8217;t good enough, the price is insane at just $199.99<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product814.html\">Ryujin Gunto<br><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: This is pretty amazing, but it was sold out within a month of the new stock landing! Looks like aficionados know a bargain when they see one &#8211; buy makes it hard to keep in stock! Updated mid December, 2020 It is one of Ryuin&#8217;s most popular swords &#8211; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/ryujin-wwii-gunto-back-in-stock\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sword-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}