Katana

The blade is made of 1095 high carbon steel and clay tempered. It's unokubi zukuri, the thickness on the back becomes thinner from the half of the blade towards the tip, but the back turns to thick near the kissaki. There's no yokote. Tsuka is made of hardwood and wrapped with genuine rayskin and synthetic silk ito. The saya is made of hardwood, the color and wood veins are natural. Koiguchi is polished buffalo horn. The tsuba, fuchi, kashira and menuki are made of copper and with dragon motif.

The blade is forged with 1095 high carbon steel and folded steel in honsanmai geometry. 1095 high carbon steel is the core steel, it's exposed as cutting edge, folded steel is the jacket layer, boundary lines between different steels are visible. The blade is clay tempered and finely polished, beautiful hamon runs along the blade. The tsuba, fuchi and kashira are made of iron; habaki and menuki are made of brass. The saya is made of hardwood and coated with high quality painting, koiguchi, kurigata and kojiri are polished buffalo horns. The tsuka is made of hardwood and fully-wrapped with genuine rayskin. The sword is fully customizable.

This katana is intricately forged in the shihozume lamination structure. The edge is made of 1095 high carbon steel which has high hardness while the sides are made of folded steel which has high flexibility and has a beautiful grain pattern or hada. Iron is used to form the softer core of the blade. The shihozume lamination is a labor-intensive forging technique that requires high skill level on the part of the swordsmith. Imperfect fusion or welding of the different steel types on the blade can cause the blade to delaminate or split.

The blade is made of folded steel, it's full tang and sharpened. It has a bohi running from habaki to kissaki. Grains of folding steel are highlighted after coloring. The handle is made of hardwood and wrapped with genuine rayskin and synthetic silk ito. The saya is made of hardwood. The tsuba, fuchi and kashira are made of iron. The sword has a beautiful shape, well-balanced and assembled tightly. The sword is fully customizable.

Tamahagane, which in Japanese literally means "jewel steel" or "precious steel", is a type of steel made in the Japanese traditional way. Tamahagane is made by smelting iron sand in a clay furnace called "tatara" and mixing it with charcoal to produce steel with various carbon content. This very laborious process takes as much as 3 days. After the smelting process, the tatara is broken and the steel bloom or "kera" is broken and swordsmiths segregate and collect the steels with various carbon contents.

Making a blade from tamahagane requires high level of expertise from the swordsmith. Swordsmiths will laminate the different types of steel collected from the kera to create a sword which has a hard edge, soft core and springy sides.

Ryan1277 is a katana with a blade made of Chinese tamahagane. The blade of this sword is hazuya-jizuya polished to bring out the beauty of the blade. It takes a polisher several weeks to do the entire polishing process. The tsuka is made of hardwood and fully wrapped with one-piece genuine rayskin and real leather ito. The tsuba, fuchi, menuki and kashira are made of copper and with silver plating. The saya is made of hardwood with dragon engraving. Black buffalo horns are used as koiguchi, kurikata and kojiri.  The sword is fully customizable.

The blade is made of 1095 high carbon steel and clay tempered. The tip is O kissaki, the hamon is suguha (straight), the blade is hazuya polished along the hamon line. The tsuka is made of hardwood, wrapped with one-piece genuine rayskin and synthetic leather ito. The saya is made of rosewood, the color and veins are natural.Kurigata, koiguchi and kojiri are made of buffalo horns. Tsuba, fuchi and kashira are made iron.

The blade is honsanmai structure, 1095 high carbon steel is the core steel and cutting edge, folded steel is the jacket layer. The grains of folded steel is clearly visible. The blade is clay tempered and hazuya polished. The tsuka is made of hardwood, wrapped with one-piece genuine rayskin and synthetic silk ito. The saya is made of hardwood, the decorations on the saya are shell. Koiguchi, kurigata and kojiri are made of buffalo horns. Tsuba, fuchi and kashira are made of copper and plated with silver.

Ryan1168 is one of our midlevel swords. The blade is of a shinogi-zukuri geometry and in a gyaku kobuse style of lamination. The edge is made of 1095 high carbon steel while the core is made of a softer steel. The blade is differentially-hardened with a natural hamon and can take on hard targets. The tsuka is made of hardwood, wrapped with genuine rayskin and synthetic silk ito. The tsuba, fuchi and kashira are all made of copper inlayed with silver and feature an intricate flower theme. The menuki is a silver praying mantis while the habaki and seppa are also made of brass. The saya is made of hardwood with black buffalo horn koiguchi, kurikata and kojiri. It has a smooth, black lacquer finish and has grooves along its length. The sageo is black synthetic silk.