HAND MADE FORGED PRACTICAL TSUNAMI SAMURAI KATANA SWORD
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You Are Bidding On A Brand New Defender Forge HAND FORGED TSUNAMI SAMURAI KATANA SWORD Plus Free Stand, Cleaning Kit, And Sword Bag These swords are made in very limited quantities. What sets this particular sword apart from the others is that the throat of the scabbard is wrapped in real ray skin. It is a fairly complicated process to embed the ray skin into the wood. The skin is first soaked for a few days in some kind of a solution that it becomes very soft and pliable. It is then heated to a very high temperature and wrapped around the tip of the scabbard, and before it cools down, a hardening solution is applied to it to make it rock hard. After that, it is painted, lightly sanded, and coated with a gloss finish to give it that incredible lustre. The sword has a razor sharp blade and can be used for tameshigiri (cutting exercises) and Iaido. The blade is traditionally hand forged and heat tempered high carbon steel. The sword can be disassembled for cleaning, and cleaning kit is included, but since the sword is made to much higher standards than cheaper hand forged swords (blade fits *very* snug inside the handle), I would highly recommend taking this sword to a sword shop and letting a professional disassemble it rather than doing it at home. Each sword is serial numbered, and I guarantee a low number (below 75), although I
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