Cool little kat review.

Interesting. I like the mirror polish on the blade. Sounds like a sturdy sword with good edge retention, not sure its worth that price though.
 
Dont know, they seem rather good, just dont see a lot of info on them. A folded steel bugei katana would cost just a little more. But after reading that review it is a lot more appealing. Beautiful piece of work and not something you see everyday. And that Korean cutting demo, I'm totally speechless except for one word. Wow.
 
A Bugei folded steel katana would be a bit more, but then again a better consideration would be the Bugei Shobu Zukuri, which has the same sugata as the blade reviewed and is also non-folded.

Folding modern steel, in my opinion, is a waste of time on a user sword. Looks great, does nothing. Kind of like a trophy wife. You're basically spending money on a pretty face.
 
knife saber said:
A Bugei folded steel katana would be a bit more, but then again a better consideration would be the Bugei Shobu Zukuri, which has the same sugata as the blade reviewed and is also non-folded.

Folding modern steel, in my opinion, is a waste of time on a user sword. Looks great, does nothing. Kind of like a trophy wife. You're basically spending money on a pretty face.
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Different sugata. That would be shobu zukuri. These are hira zukuri. Kinda similar I guess.
Anyway... yes, the folding is GENERALLY useless on modern steel. It may be possible to obtain certain results that are impossible with lamination or through differential HT of monosteel. The likelihood is very low though... VERY low.
I was quite impressed at the reports of their edge retention and toughness...
 
Actually, the review at the link is of a shobu zukuri sword.

And forge folding the same steel? Maybe if you were folding two different steels together, you'd get something interesting, but nowadays all the necessary qualities are available in super-clean, ready to forge round stock.
 
knife saber said:
Actually, the review at the link is of a shobu zukuri sword.

And forge folding the same steel? Maybe if you were folding two different steels together, you'd get something interesting, but nowadays all the necessary qualities are available in super-clean, ready to forge round stock.
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Odd... I could swear the owner said (in another forum's thread) that they made hira zukuri katana... oh well. Maybe he was referring specifically to the Korean swords?
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Yes, quite true. However the heat treatment, while today VERY precise and in combination with the proper steel (shallow-hardening, etc) there is little need for folding or lamination. Different steels is debateable, I guess it depends.

I know the yokote is non-existent, which is true for both shobu zukuri and hira zukuri swords.. but hmmmm.... it certainly does look like shobu zukuri....
 
It wouldn't have been for Korean swords... I've been told that most KSA dojos use shobu zukuri swords, partly owing to their choice of targets. And the sword in the review is most definitely shobu zukuri. Come to think of it, I haven't seen a hira zukuri blade on the Martial Arts Swords site.

Maybe the guy's tongue slipped over the terminology?
 
knife saber said:
It wouldn't have been for Korean swords... I've been told that most KSA dojos use shobu zukuri swords, partly owing to their choice of targets. And the sword in the review is most definitely shobu zukuri. Come to think of it, I haven't seen a hira zukuri blade on the Martial Arts Swords site.

Maybe the guy's tongue slipped over the terminology?
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Could be.... then who was it that had a hira-zukuri blade? I'm confused.... I know they're rather rare in daito....

Hm.
 
I know some competitive cutters have hira zukuri blades for soft targets. Haven't seen any factory daitos made in hira zukuri sugata.

Over on the Bugei boards, there are a few people with hira blades by Howard Clark, I believe. Also, Bailey Bradshaw has made a few. I'm on the list for one myself.
 
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