Quality Katana swords online shop? Order a full-tang, battle-ready custom katana created specifically for you. Choose the custom katana sword with the vastest number of components and the smoothest shopping experience on the web. Each custom katana is full-tang and battle-ready: our swords are not wall-hangers. They are fully functional works of art, hand-forged and assembled by swordsmiths, blade polishers, and assemblers over the course of weeks. From the most basic 1060 & 1095 steel that can also be folded for a more aesthetic edge, to the more flexible and durable 9260 Steel, and ending with to the highly-artistic and valuable Kobuse Steel blade, you have many different choices. See additional information at Swords for sale.

Every single piece of the sword must fit together perfectly. A functional, balanced Japanese sword is the end-result of the Assembler‘s work. Finally, the blade has to be sharpened. Initially, rough, low-grain grindstones are used to sharpen katana blades, and then progressively, finer, higher-grain grindstones are utilised. Once the blade’s entire length is sharpened, the Togishi has to work on the tip (the kissaki), and uses a different technique to make it extra-sharp. Once the saya and tsuka are built, the handle has to be assembled along with the handle guard (tsuba), and blade collars, fuchi, menuki, etc. The handle is held in place to the tang by Mekugi (two small wooden cylinders).

The quality and strength of the sword are likely to suffer if a batch of steel has a lot of impurities in it. Any blade frequently can develop weaknesses due to impurities – and have problems on the length of the blade as it is used. This issue can be quickly found and resolved during the folding process. Carbon is present everywhere throughout the length of the steel blade. However, the blade can become brittle and possibly break if a significant amount of carbon is deposited in some parts of the steel and not throughout the blade. However, folding the blade multiple times leads to stronger blades. Because the steel’s carbon deposits are equally spread throughout, there are much fewer chances of weak spots. Folding a blade is done in the forging process. It is done by taking a high-carbon steel block and elongating it, then “folding” it on top of itself.

How does the sword feel? When handled and while using it, the sword should feel solid and always within control. The handle or the blade collar (habaki) shouldn’t move, and the wrap (ito) should feel tightened to perfection in our hands. All its parts have to be tightened together and fitting properly. This “feel” – along with the steel type and the blade’s tang – is what makes a katana usable – the main features of a sword which isn’t made to be a wall-hanger. When you’re buying a sword online, there are different things you need to consider depending on your needs – but most importantly – you need to look at the names and titles sellers use on their products.

Tamahagane Steel. We have Tamahagane Steel – also called crown jewel steel – the original steel used by traditional, feudal Japanese forgers. Today, the art of making blades from the tamahagane steel ore is almost extinct. The traditional processes for smelting, forging, and refining a blade is very expensive, so nearly no one does it. In addition, the particular ore (Tamagahane) needed for the conventional procedure is extremely expensive and rare. Finally, it is extremely difficult to export any of these highly valued works of art from Japan because swords remained illegal since the Samurai were abolished. Nowadays, many sellers sell fake Tamahagane from China, which is not real in 99% of cases.

The katana was considered as the Samurai’s Soul. It was the center of his universe – as only the Samurai were allowed to wear it in ancient Japan. Wearing a sword in pre-modern Japan was a symbol of royalty – and the Samurai usually wore two swords, with one katana and another one (or perhaps, a wakizashi or tanto) in their belt. The katana is one of the many different kinds of Japanese swords, which come in many different shapes – both in blade and in handle lengths. However, the katana is by far the most widely used and popular. The katana has not only been popularized in feudal Japan, but has gone through to become one of the best known swords in modern times – appearing in many movies and being widely used worldwide. We could in fact even say it’s the first type of sword to come to mind when anyone thinks of the word “sword”. See even more info at swordsfor.sale.