After days of rain, we had a sunny day so it was time to get our new 9260 steel katanas and play a bit. The new delivery arrived last week but we were so busy with organising our little sword show that we didn’t have any time left to give you a closer look.
Besides the traditional forged carbon steel swords(more on those one later) we also have to 9260 spring steel swords in stock now. These blades are known as flexible and very strong. Since they are through hardened, there’s no hamonline to be found.
The katana with bo-hi is black ‘themed’. A black ito over a white rayskin and a black saya. The iron tsuba does feature a crane where the fushi & kashira and the menuki (all made of copper) have a flower theme. It’s a very light and fast katana with a very good cutting ability.
Our katana without bo-hi in the 9260 serie does come with a black rayskin and a darkbrown ito. The tsuba is made of blackened iron and the fuchi & kashira and menuki are the same as on the one with hi (flower themed). Cutting with this sword is like cutting through butter, we did some cutting tests as you can see on the video below here and 4 tatami is a piece of a cake for this big boy. If we find a little more time this week, we will try to cut 8 tatami.
Although these are low budget katana, they do have a nice finish with a very tight tsukamaki and nicely shaped tsuka. For safety reasons , there are 2 bamboo pins (mekugi) holding the tsuka.
Don’t look in our shop because you won’t find them before the 22e of December (just come to visit our little sword show if you want to be the first)
The introducing price of these katana is 175 euro ! You think you can find a better deal for this money
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