Functional Katana

A genuine clay-tempered, functional Katana. 

Fitted with a practical handle-grip, sturdy brass fittings, and a sharp, combat battle ready blade. This Uchigatana war sword is lethal.

The most valuable part of any sword is its blade, with this folded steel sword blade certainly forming a high quality, and deadly foundational core to this true Katana. 

Forged with folded steel, which is a mixture of 1095 & 1060 high carbon steel, manganese spring steel, 1045 soft steel and many more smaller portions of other steels. This mixture is then folded multiple times to remove impurities, creating many hundreds of individual steel layers, finally producing arguably the best sword-making steel available, a technique renowned for smithing the finest combat sword blades. 

Further promoting perfection, is the very difficult process of clay-tempering the blade. This process precisely facilitates hardening of the blade’s edge, while leaving the blade’s core and spine softer and thus resilient. Definitely a marker of advanced Japanese sword-making technology and visibly identifiable on this Shinken sword blade. 

Completed with a beautiful hardwood, wrapped with real stingray-skin + buffalo horn insert scabbard, practical bass sword fittings, and a hardwood wrapped with real stingray-skin & quality leather cord handle, this folded steel Katana is finished with premium materials and in full traditional Japanese character. 

A pleasure to own, and a formidable close quarters Katana saber sword to use. 

Key Features:

• Folded Katana blade – hard, reliable cutting edge, along with good blade renowned elasticity & excellent resilience.
• Genuine clay tempered sword blade, with visible Hamon.
• Premium fittings, handle & scabbard materials. 
• Perfectly balanced & versatile Japanese long sword – equally effective cutting, slashing & thrusting combat Katana. 
• Katana battle ready – fully functional and deadly sharpened Katana.

Functional Katana Specifications:

• Note: Sword stand is NOT included, and is shown only for demonstration purposes.
• Overall Katana length: 104cm.
• Handle length: 26cm.
• Katana blade length: 71cm.
• Blade width: 3.2cm.
• Blade thickness: 0.7cm.
• Blade material: Folded steel Katana blade. 
• Tempering: Genuine clay tempered Katana, with visible Hamon. 
• Hardness: 58HRC.
• Tsuka (handle) materials: Hardwood, wrapped with genuine stingray-skin & quality leather Ito (handle wrap).
• Saya (scabbard) material: Hardwood, wrapped with real stingray-skin + 3x real buffalo horn inserts + quality cord Sageo (scabbard-wrap).
• Tsuba (hand-guard) material: Brass, and plated. 
• Other sword fittings material: Brass. 
• Tang: Full tang Katana. 
• Included: Silk sword bag; certificate of authenticity. 
• Item: Daito sword.