Wonderful folded steel, hand-forged KATANA : The Black Damascus has a silver-plated Habaki. The Menuki is gold-plated. Delivered with a certificate of authenticity.

• Black Damascus:
  • Sugata (Blade style): Hand-forged curved blade with a Bohi (groove) and Chu-Kissaki (tip). Folded steel (C45 & C105W- USA: Steel 1095). 13 times folded to achieve ca. 8192 layers. Traditional clay-wrapping technique for differential hardening. There are beautiful hada (grain in steel, pattern of folding the steel) in the blade. The hardness of its Mune is ca 43° and the Ha (blade edge) is ca 60° HRC Rockwell. The blade spine is , the edge is without Niku .iori-mune (The blade has got a flat and cutting sharp edge). The dark color of the blade is the color of the steel, which is achieved by a special technique. It is surface-coating, which is very thin, so it does not reduce the sharpness. The colouring results in better visual effects of the folded steel pattern as well as the hamon line and different hardening areas.
  • Blade lenght (from Habaki): ca 71 cm/ 28 inches.
  • Sori (curvature): 1,52 cm / 0,6 inch.
  • Tsuka: Black/white, Green/white, Red/black or Purple/black
  • Tsuba: Fuji
  • Delivered with protective cloth bag.

Pricing:

Please choose the colour of the grip: Black/white Green/white Red/black Purple/black Estimated delivery time: 8-10 weeks 8-10 weeks 8-10 weeks 8-10 weeks   Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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