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Quality hand-forged 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. Discover even more details on https://swordsfor.sale/product/custom-katana.

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).

Different forgers use different numbers of layers for their folding process. Moreover, each forger will fold the blade multiple times, up to 30 in some cases. At Swords for Sale, we fold each of our high-carbon blades 13 times – creating stronger, more durable, and aesthetically-pleasing swords. Moreover, high-carbon blades – folded or unfolded – can also be clay-tempered during their heat treatment – creating a beautiful “hamon” pattern. While carbon steels are amazing for swords, there is another type of steel which creates durable and strong blades. One of them is called spring steel – and contains silicon in its alloy. This is a type of steel that is much more durable than carbon steels due to this silicon content.

When buying a katana or a functional sword – the type of steel used is of paramount importance. Good metal workers know any kind of metal has a special purpose. We can’t use the same steel as we do in industrial machinery in a sword. The goal of good steel is to have a perfect balance of toughness and hardness. While certain types of metals are good for staying on a wall and being looked at, others are good to cut trees and bamboo, all while remaining strong and impenetrable.

While some steel types may sound great to use on swords, the truth about great blades is that they have to be made with certain very precise materials. This is simply because of a sword’s blade purpose: to cut through hard materials, come back to its shape, and be easy to care for and maintain. Now, certain steel types have properties which are favorable to use in a sword’s blade. Here is a list of steel types used to create swords: Stainless Steel. While Stainless steel sounds like a good idea because it requires little to no maintenance, it is not, in fact, ever used to create functional swords. It is only used for wall-hangers and unsharpened swords that are in many cases not even fit as bokken – for martial arts practice.

In ancient Japan, katanas were very rare and valuable. They were made with special techniques and metals – more specifically one – Tamahagane steel (also called Jewel Steel). This is a special type of steel issued from iron sand smelted in the traditional Japanese low furnace. Tamahagane steel swordsmithing is not completely extinct nowadays, but nearly. This is simply because the traditional methods of smelting, forging, and refining a blade is extremely expensive. Moreover, the special ore (Tamagahane) required for the traditional process is very rare – and thus expensive. Moreover, swords are actually illegal in Japan, so it’s very hard to get any of these so-prized pieces of art out of the country. See even more information on swordsfor.sale.