Katana

The blade is honsanmai lamination, 1095 high carbon steel is the cutting edge, folded steel is used as jacket steel. It is clay-tempered with a natural hamon. Hamon and folding grains are clearly visible on the blade. The blade is shinogi zukuri with niku, it's suitable for heavy cutting. The tsuka is made of hardwood, it's wrapped with synthetic silk ito, the same under ito is genuine rayskin. The saya is made of Chinese redwood, the color and veins are natural. The kurigata, kojiri and koiguchi are polished buffalo horns. The tsuba, fuchi and kashira are made of iron. The sword is fully customisable.

This sword was customized by Eric Kuster. He designed it with the objective of having a strong and well balanced katana, which is not too heavy and handles smoothly with the katatemaki tsukaito. It is a good choice if you happen to have the same request. This sword is sharpened as default, please remind us if you want it blunt.

Ryan1322 is a katana with a shinogi zukurigeometry. Its blade is made of folded 1095 high carbon steel. The blade has no groove and the folding of the blade during forging produces a very distinct and beautiful raindrop pattern. This is different from the appearance of the usual folded steel which has a wavy hada. The hada on this blade looks like irregularly-shaped ripples.

The tsuka is made of hardwood wrapped with red, rayskin panels and black synthetic silk ito. The red saya is hardwood with grooves and has a buffalo horn koiguchi and black-brown sageo.