Katana

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 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.

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 honsanmai lamination, 1095 high carbon steel is the cutting edge, folded steel is used as jacket steel. The grains of folded steel are clearly visible. The blade is clay tempered. The tsuka is made of hardwood, wrapped with genuine rayskin and synthetic silk ito. The saya is made of hardwood and painted in black, the pattern on it is hand-drawn. Koiguchi, kurigata and kojiri are buffalo horns. Tsuba, fuchi, kashira and menuki are made of copper with dragon motif.

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 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.

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.

Ryan217 is an elegant-looking but deadly katana. The blade is made of differentially-hardened 1095 carbon steel and finely-polished revealing a beautiful natural hamon. Being made of 1095, this blade is capable of handling hard targets. The tsuka is hardwood with genuine rayskin panels in red lacquer and wrapped with black, synthetic silk ito. The fittings are all made of brass and have an intricate, ryu or dragon theme. The saya is made of hardwood with red varnish and inlayed with mother-of-pearl design. The saya has a clear lacquer coat to give it a glossy finish. The koiguchi, kurikata and kojiri are made of black, buffalo horn.