It's Saturday morning here and looks like we don’t need to expect a lot of sun today…Ideal weather to finish some things here :o It seems like most of you guys (and girls ) liked the cheap battle ready katana from the Konron Forge ? The forge had some problems lately..one of the problems was the fact that they did need to re-locate their forge..but that was not the only problem, there were 2 more things going on there. First, the smith (yeah, they only one they have) was in the hospital for

When I was young, Ninja’s were IN…dozens of Hollywood movies were made and we all wanted to be (at least me) a real ninja some day. Very soon , I discovered that I would never had the skills to become a real ninja and decided to start a Japanese sword shop one day to supply the ninjas with good quality ninja swords. Soon after I started the sword shop, I did found out that they did no longer exist…shit ! :o Anyway, it seems like they’re still very hot these day’s , even in Japan.

It has been a few weeks since you heard something from us but we were extremely busy with some things and there wasn't much time left to write something down. But we're still alive and kicking :o Now we have a great deal to announce and you're the first to hear about it. Two weeks ago I was on the phone with one of our forges and after lot of talking and negotiating they gave us a little extra because we're a good client. You remember the tamahagane tachi we got in a few weeks ago..that

It’s been some time since (well actually since last week Thursday I believe  ) my last post about tying a sageo, but too many thing going on at the moment and no time left anymore to keep up with the writing here. We have some reviews of the 9260 steel Konron swords coming up. At this time, we only have them available in Dutch and you can find this very nice review (Goedkope en functionele katana) with pictures and cutting video’s (don’t we all like that…) on our Dutch blog. They’re

December is the month of Santa Claus and lot’s of gifts….For the first time we don’t have to wait until end of December here. Since he’s a very busy men and already start to stress by thinking at the end of the year, he decided to come more early here and he brought us a new delivery of fresh and totally new swords. As you could read in our previous posts about the new sword samples that arrived and our cheap budget katana, we finally have some of these models in stock now. It will take

Sunday evening, a perfect time to "exit" the week with some good and exciting news. A couple op posts ago, we mentioned that we found a young smith in China who made some very good high carbon steel and folded steel katana. After a long time of discussion and tweaking we finally got the first samples here in our shop. As we expected, it’s (almost) exactly what we did have in mind…A very nice looking quality sword which can be offered at a very low price. We didn’t had the time to give

A couple of weeks ago we held a poll inside our samurai club with the question if a look behind the scenes of our shop would be interesting...the response was overwhelming and it looks like you’re all interested to see what is going on here in our “little online-store”.. And I can assure you there are a lot of things to take care of.. :-) Every week we receive emails with questions about our samurai swords or about Japanese swords in general. We do answer every mail we receive ..even