We received the new sword samples !

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 this sword to some practitioners and see what they think about it but as far as we can tell, it’s a very well balanced sword with a very good cutting ability.The samples did come with a groove so we didn’t do the very heavy cutting stuff yet but as you can see on the 2 pictures posted below, the blade has no problems at all with some strong pine branches. The blade does have scratches but no damage on the edge !

More cutting exercises will be done in the upcoming week so stay tuned !

At this moment, we don’t offer any of the samples for sale but we do expect the first delivery to be here somewhere in December.

If you’re interested in these swords, we might have a good offer for you…You can customize this sword in terms of tsuka ito, sageo, blade length, etc at NO additional cost ! Only if you like to have a part of the saya in rayskin there’s a little charge. This offer will only be available until beginning of November. Once the swords are here, there will be an extra charge for all of these options.

For our US customers, we will have these swords available in our US warehouse so you will save a BIG time on shipping & additional customs charges ! The approx. shippingcost within the US is estimated on $15-$20. Contact us by mail if you need more info.

Anyway, that was it for now…if you have any questions about these new swords here, drop us a mail or catch us with the live chat

See you !

Feel free to tell what you think about these swords…we can still change them at this point…