Okan Posted January 17, 2023 Report Posted January 17, 2023 Was just watching a sword show on NHK and this came up. Mini Katana! What she told is that this was made in the traditional way, tamahagane, real hamon, fittings and everything...Would you collect these? 5 Quote
NewB Posted January 17, 2023 Report Posted January 17, 2023 Definitely. That's the new age ninja weapon lol J. 1 Quote
Ken-Hawaii Posted January 17, 2023 Report Posted January 17, 2023 No. I prefer to swing the real thing! 1 Quote
jesse Posted January 17, 2023 Report Posted January 17, 2023 I want one, or two. If I could get one with a similar hamon to one in my collection, to display them together. Okan, do you know where you could possible purchase one? Warm Regards, Jesse 1 Quote
John C Posted January 17, 2023 Report Posted January 17, 2023 In terms of scale, how tall would an action figure need to be in order to wear one? John C. Quote
Okan Posted January 17, 2023 Author Report Posted January 17, 2023 On 1/17/2023 at 6:39 PM, jesse said: I want one, or two. If I could get one with a similar hamon to one in my collection, to display them together. Okan, do you know where you could possible purchase one? Warm Regards, Jesse Expand It's special ordered if I understood correctly. From whom I have no idea. You can watch the full video here, mini katana is at the end. 1 1 Quote
ROKUJURO Posted January 18, 2023 Report Posted January 18, 2023 It's not Japanese but Celtic. 100 mm long sword, coil spring steel blade, hardened and tempered, made to complete a Celtic puppet on an archaeologic exposition. 1 1 Quote
Okan Posted January 18, 2023 Author Report Posted January 18, 2023 On 1/18/2023 at 1:18 PM, ROKUJURO said: It's not Japanese but Celtic. 100 mm long sword, coil spring steel blade, hardened and tempered, made to complete a Celtic puppet on an archaeologic exposition. Expand Very beautiful Jean Do you remember how long it took to forge the blade? Would you like to try a mini Katana? Of course I don't know the process very much but maybe you can smelt a tsuba and can make 2-3 mini katana out of them? Quote
ROKUJURO Posted January 18, 2023 Report Posted January 18, 2023 Okan, it is not too difficult to forge a mini KATANA blade in case it is 200 mm long, but the smaller it is, the more work it will be. Forging is generally only 10% of the manufacturing time of the finished item when making knives. Making a complete and detailed mini KATANA will be a very time-consuming task! Using one of your TSUBA for a sword blade would not be a good idea as it cannot be hardened (it is pure carbon-free iron), but I could use a piece of a broken/cut WAKIZASHI I have in stock. Of course I could make a fitting TSUBA from the iron of one of your TSUBA. For all the other parts you would have to find an expert craftsman - perhaps Sergio in Belgium? I know he does TSUKA MAKI. A general remark: You can have a real HAMON on a KOGATANA blade, but that is about the smallest piece of steel. Blades which are considerably smaller (= narrower) are very difficult or even impossible to harden differentially as the heat distribution in metals is just too fast. In this context, I don't believe that the mini KATANA has indeed a real HAMON. It looks more like HADORI to my old eyes, but that may be the photo. 1 1 Quote
jesse Posted January 18, 2023 Report Posted January 18, 2023 Okan, many thanks for posting that video. Quote
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