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They look a bit more like swords now. Alot more forging to go, tips and tangs forged in though, I shortened the one hander a bit as well as the tac katana. The one hander will grow as I am going to do it as a hammer finish central ridge, with a polished edge bevel all the way around. The tactical japanese style blade will be my VERY first mostly stock removal blade(I forged the tang and tip
), as loathe as I am to say it hehe (nothing against stock removers! I just cannot justify grinding away all that good steel! but I figure I will give it a try). I put all 3 together so you can see the size differences. The tactical katana is coming out pretty neat, a very cool simple sturdy way to make a non traditional, yet undoubtedly katana looking blade, Thanks to Wally Hayes for the idea and his most excellent video on the subject, except for the bit of difference this will be through hardened with no hamon (5160 anyway). It will have the traditional style wrap, black parachord and maybe some real rayskin if I can swing it and find some. The one hander will have an elongated oval guard, linen micarta handle and a thick elongated oval pommel, or a wheel. I am not settled on much for the big one yet, I will forge it out then see what it would like to do
. I recently heard some good advice from a Mr Bruce Bump (thanks Bruce), fail to plan and you plan to fail, so I am trying to plan things out a bit farther than just forging the blade and maybe I might actually get farther than my usual just forged blades.
A couple all together shots.
Tangs
Tips
), as loathe as I am to say it hehe (nothing against stock removers! I just cannot justify grinding away all that good steel! but I figure I will give it a try). I put all 3 together so you can see the size differences. The tactical katana is coming out pretty neat, a very cool simple sturdy way to make a non traditional, yet undoubtedly katana looking blade, Thanks to Wally Hayes for the idea and his most excellent video on the subject, except for the bit of difference this will be through hardened with no hamon (5160 anyway). It will have the traditional style wrap, black parachord and maybe some real rayskin if I can swing it and find some. The one hander will have an elongated oval guard, linen micarta handle and a thick elongated oval pommel, or a wheel. I am not settled on much for the big one yet, I will forge it out then see what it would like to do. I recently heard some good advice from a Mr Bruce Bump (thanks Bruce), fail to plan and you plan to fail, so I am trying to plan things out a bit farther than just forging the blade and maybe I might actually get farther than my usual just forged blades.A couple all together shots.
Tangs
Tips
