Samurai Katana Functional Hand Forged Handmade Japanese Katana Sword 1060 1095 Carbon Steel Damascus Steel Heat Tempered Clay Tempered Full Tang Sharp 2.75ib…

Beautiful, handcrafted work and you can tell it!!

This sword is an intriguing mixed-bag. The clay-tempered Damascus blade is simply stunning, with no significant visible flaws, and comes very sharp. The overall balance and handling are also very good. The blade is light and responsive, and similar in shape to my real Gunto. But not quite...The biggest initial aggravation was how tight the scabbard fit was, needing some adjustments to be usable. Re-sheathing is not as smooth as it could be. Also, as others have noted, the Ito wrap is not real leather, very plastic-like, and I'll probably replace it with something better. The fixtures are cheap castings, not real brass, but are mostly period-authentic in design. While the Koiguchi (scabbard mouth) has a cut for a Gunto lock, there isn't one on the sword, so that's odd. Most annoying, the Kashira (pommel) is very loose, too fat for the handle dimensions to fit properly. It's barely held on by the lanyard ring. Traditionally, the Ito would go through the pommel, securing it. I'll fix this when I re-wrap it.But the blade is nice enough to do some work on the furniture, perhaps even upgrade. The Samekawa is indeed real, and the fit of the hilt and Tsuba are snug. The sword is also double-pinned. For the price, I don't regret my purchase, especially as I bought it as a stunt double or sorts for my real Gunto, to practice with without worrying about wear and tear.

The hardware and fittings on this sword are very cheap you can purchase them for $12 from China Luckily I didn't pay full price for this sword do not pay more than a 100 or a 120 do not pay 200 And the packaging sucked I bought a $60 sword that was packaged 3 times as good Would be OK for a wall hanger but Still not worth 200 Would not use to chop with would probably fall apart

Extraordinary dedico, quality and craftsmanship

Got the sword but cannot take out/ open case please help????

I love the sword.

The sword is light and well balanced and worth the price. The hamon is beautiful as is the saya. The only disappointment is with the cast metal furniture. It detracts from the authenticity of the blade and looks cheap. I hope they cast solid brass furniture for the tsuka and the saya. Charge more but at least it would look correct and improve the overall beauty of this sword. The imitation leather wrap is not my favorite and I will redo it with traditional ito cloth chord. Overall...I would still buy another.

A damascus blade at this price point is always a bit suspect, but the blade has a rather nice and subdued pattern to it. The hamon is also nice, irregular in pattern and looks real. To get a nice blade at this point I accepted that the fittings would likely be less than stellar. And that seems to be the case. While they are tight which is good, the handle is some sort of rayskin looking synthetic material. The mekugi looks like it was forced through the handle since it is not an even hole through the tsuki. The wrap also blocks them from being removed. The casting on the kishira also looks like it has excess that was not removed on one side. The ito is a synthetic leather but provides good grip. Everything is tight and the blade fits very well and firmly in the saya. The lanyard loop on the kishari has some side to side movement but isn't overly loose. The fitting on the saya seems to just be pressure fit, the one part way down on mine seems to have come loose during shipment and left several marks in the wood of the saya. All of this can be fairly easily fixed and a new ito would be an easy and nice way to clean up the look. The major issue is that the blade is slightly bowed or bent to the right. It isn't so much that you don't know where your kisaki is, but a bent sword is much like a bent nail. The kisaki itself also shows a good amount of grinding marks. You get what you pay for and I was hoping I'd end up with a nice blade that I could then correct fittings on. As it is though I am not sure it has a huge amount of value beyond a nice looking display blade to hang on a wall or place on a desk. It is light and moves very easily so there is a lot of promise, but it is hard to forgive a bend in the blade and that is not something that is easy to correct.