The Hartsfield Katana?

[Lycosa]

Who has them? How do they cut?
Thank you.
Rolf

 

[JParanee]

Like a F---ing light saber

 

[gregorio]

Like a F---ing light saber ]

is that a chisel ground blade there? Thanks.

 

[JParanee]

No all the katanas , wak's and tanto's I have from Phill are double ground

I prefer the chisel ground kwaikens from Phill thou

I have heard the chisel ground katanas are good slicers but I prefer a double grind on larger pieces

 

[Lycosa]

Wow. Thanks.
I had a PH Kat but never cut with it. I found it to be a tad heavy too.
I do miss my 9" blade Aikuchi though.

 

[JParanee]

Lycosa how long was the blade ?

 

[Lycosa]

25" blade.
I'd love to get a Kat from Pohan Leu.

 

[JParanee]

I did not no he was doing Katana's

I just saw him at blade , he makes a very nice knife

 

[gregorio]

No all the katanas , wak's and tanto's I have from Phill are double ground

I prefer the chisel ground kwaikens from Phill thou

I have heard the chisel ground katanas are good slicers but I prefer a double grind on larger pieces

Thanks for the info. I'm not sure I would want to go with a chisel ground sword.

 

[JParanee]

Thanks for the info. I'm not sure I would want to go with a chisel ground sword.

I wouldn't either

 

[Lycosa]

William Nease is making me a chisel grind kat. It's just for the cool factor but I do like the chisel grind, as most know.
As soon as Po gets a bigger HT oven, the PoKats will come.

 

[Leu Custom]

That's because i'm not Joe! Rarely even make fixed blades anymore! lol

I did not no he was doing Katana's

I just saw him at blade , he makes a very nice knife

This was Lycosa's PH Katana! Felt great in my hand! Lycosa must have be WEAK!

 

[horseclover]

Like a F---ing light saber

Beach mats are pretty easy to cut. Is that a couple wrapped together or just one?

Looks like a good baseball swing

Cheers

GC

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

That's because i'm not Joe! Rarely even make fixed blades anymore! lol




This was Lycosa's PH Katana! Felt great in my hand! Lycosa must have be WEAK!

Does that actually have a tsuka core or is it just thin cord whipped 'round the tang and wrapped over? Looks VERY thin to me.

 

[Lycosa]

Cord wrap only.

 

[Leu Custom]

round cotton cord wrapped directly over the full tang then the black flat wrap over and then full epoxied. Tsuka does not come off! Or unravel

Does that actually have a tsuka core or is it just thin cord whipped 'round the tang and wrapped over? Looks VERY thin to me.

 

[Lycosa]

Po- I started working out.
My Nease LyKat was lighter.

 

[JParanee]

Beach mats are pretty easy to cut. Is that a couple wrapped together or just one?

Looks like a good baseball swing

Cheers

GC

Your right they are easy to cut ....you should post up some pictures of you cutting

 

[JParanee]

That's because i'm not Joe! Rarely even make fixed blades anymore! lol




This was Lycosa's PH Katana! Felt great in my hand! Lycosa must have be WEAK!

Po I'm glad the folders are going well

Would love to see you make a sword

 

[horseclover]

Your right they are easy to cut ....you should post up some pictures of you cutting

As seems typical, no answer to a question. Was it one mat or more?

I had baseballed enough bottles in the past and have cut some mats but don't claim any special talents aside from eight stitches between two toes. The cut opened my boot up but then I caught the point on the steel cap and slid the blade down between two when reversing. I used to back hand empty cracker boxes one handed with my medievals and those were somewhat similar rising diagonals. All this almost decade ago. Now on blood thinner after a stroke in 2008 and increasingly blurring cataracts wreaking havoc with depth perception, I have slowed right down but still cut up the occasional carton with sound antiques and a few others I have sharpened.

I ask about the mats more out of curiosity, as I am familiar with cutting Bugei wara and what was once the standard Mugen Dachi tatami. My friend did have a batch of something else last year that was less stiff upright but demanded some follow through to get the job done. As to the baseball swing comment, it does look like the cutter (you?) is trying for the sky and having had my own experience (outlined above) I have learned how to better use the brakes.

So, was it a single beach mat or more?

Cheers

GC

Oh, honestly, this may be the only picture on the net of me cutting. A failed cut, if that means anything. The photograph was done by a forumite here at Bladeforums/SFI/myArmoury during a gathering he hosted in 2002. There are some 2003 pictures out there as well from that location and even one of me trimming the top off a wara mat with similar small ends flying. Never saved that picture but the falchion shot was brought back and attached at SFI by Tom Carr of Texas during a falchion thread. The host of those two gatherings may have more shots of me cuttings, I just don't know (or much care).

The bottle did have water. The next try with a XIIIa went much better. At home, earlier tests with a couple of other swords were with a bottle filled with .50 lead shot and then slid into another boot. I still have that around here somewhere and could shoot pictures of those cuts into leather and lead.