SWORDS
Orchid Katana
By Paul Chen
Like most of the Hanwei Swords, the Orchid is Forged in the maru-gitae style, using the traditional clay process dating from 700 AD, producing a hard cutting edge 60 RC while maintaining the body/back/spine of the blade at 40 RC hardness for resilience and shock absorption. The blade's temper line (o-midari, meaning "turbulent sea") is one of the most beautiful and important features of the Japanese sword. Many "temper lines" are simply etched or ground into a blade and have no functional value but a true temper line indicates that the edge has been independently hardened in the traditional manner.
The iron tsuba (guard) is a finely-rendered silver inlaid Orchid with brass leaves. The tsuka (grip) is genuine top-grade ray skin-covered wood, attached securely to the nakago (tang) with bamboo pegs. The tsuka-ito (grip wrapping) is Japanese premium cotton cord wrapped very tightly in the traditional pattern to display the ray skin and the menuki.
Orchid folded blade katana includes a traditional blue lacquer finished wood saya (scabbard) with a buffalo horn kojori (end cap), koi-guchi (throat cap) and kuri-gata (wrapping cord eyelet). A kenye (fine-cloth bag) and a traditional maintenance kit are included. The maintenance kit contains blade oil, rice papers, oiling cloth, a powder ball for blade polishing and a brass awl and hammer.
41 5/8" overall.
27 3/4" Sharpened hand tempered folded steel blade.
Brand Knives/
Martial Arts/
Throwing Knives/
Throwing Stars/
Swords/
Combat-Survival
Security/Enforcement/
Bows etc.../
Fantasy Blades/
Movie Weapons/
Machetes/
Cool Stuff
Kitchen Cutlery/
Reenactment/
Tools & Aides/
Rapiers and Gauches/
Gun/Knife Books/
Axes-Hatchets/
Home
Bynoon.com
© Bynoon.com - 1998-2009 - All Rights Reserved