No5 bayonet/knife "conversion"

[Flying10uk]

Thanks for your thoughts Jim, I've seen the new cross pieces on eBay priced at £8 but these are no better than I could make myself and they don't appear to be NOS items. It's not too much of a problem for me to repair/refurbish but I didn't wan't to inadvertently destroy a historical artefact in the process of putting it back into a bayonet. I do have another example with a much poorer blade which I may use as a donor for parts. I will then use the blade from this 2nd No5 bayonet to help put together a display of the various No5 style of blades from the No5 until the last L1A4 blade. I thought that it would be interesting to see just the bare blades for comparison purposes.