Jo - Japan Budo Katana Made Of Folded Steel

This Katana / Shinken is a fascinating eye. The blade is made of two different grades of carbon steel folded and has over 8000 locations. This creates a beautiful grain of the blade (Hada). This sword is the result of excellent blacksmithing. Japan Budo hopes that this Budo Katana / sword Shinken optimal for the technical training but also for cutting exercises (Tameshigiri) offer. The cutting is traditionally hardened. The hardness in the blade back (Mune) is located at 43 ° HCR. The cutting edge (Ha) has a hardness of about 60 ° HCR. The cutting edge is very flat and very sharp forged. The blade is in default Habaki zone (Moto-Kasane) approx 6mm thick. It weighs at 2.50 shaku approximately 970g. However, you can also order stronger blade with about 8mm Moto-Kasane. Such a sword would be at 2.50 shaku weigh around 1100g. The blade is very durable and excellent for cutting exercises classical (Tameshigiri) of rice straw mats or bamboo green suitable.
You can use this Katana / Shinken also dulled order to make it then sharpen it. This makes sense if you first create a greater security in dealing with a real sword to win.
Of course the price is in excess of EUR 1000 is not insignificant. But they will hardly find a folded Shinken, which is so adapted to the needs of our customers' needs. Providers to offer comparable, as far as they ever can afford, are normally much more expensive.
The design is the broadcast of the blade properly. Fuchi / Kashira are simple, with the ornament structure. The crane Menuki represent a motif that in Japan, a symbol of luck. The Tsuba is a fight scene with samurai.




Further details:

- Blade of pleated carbon steel, traditionally manufactured 
- Suitable for cutting rice straw mats, green bamboo or similar
     Materials
- Winding cotton, black, red, blue, green, purple, white with brown points
- 2 Mekugin (bamboo pins to handle fixation)
- Tsuba, Fuchi and Kashira carbon steel!
- Habaki brass
- Menuki Copper
- Koiguchi made of horn
- Kurigata with gold-colored Shitodome design