Full Tang Katana

Hamon is a wavy line that sometimes show up on the blade cutting edge and it adds aesthetical factor to the blade. Such a line will attract more attention to a blade, especially when the hamon is the high quality hamon. This article will be talking about few steps to spot a hamon on your blade (if exists) and take its picture, so that you can share the beauty of your blade with another people.

After covering about traditional katana sageo tying, we will proceed to the explanation about sageo tying for display purpose. As you can imagine that something for display will be aesthetically attractive and sometimes need more work to achieve the desired result. Don’t worry, we’ll explain this tutorial using brief images, so that it will be easy to follow.

Here is another article in our “Katana How To Series” and the main explanation in this writing is about tying sageo. Tying sageo can be done in two different styles. The first style is the simple orthodox, which is functional to carry a sword on the waist, and the second style is intended for sword display. The tying steps will be explained using image for easy practice, please take your time to learn tying a sageo.

Have you ever seen a direct comparison between katana versus bullet? Or even a katana versus the water cutter that is usually used to slice steels? We recently found some videos about this amazing experiment, find the result after seeing these videos by yourself.

Carrying katana outdoor without a bag will absolutely give you some troubles, that’s why a katana bag is a priority if you are planning to take a walk with your katana. Traditional katana bag will protect your sword and will also give pleasuring display at your gallery. Right here, we’ve got a tutorial on how to tie a katana blade that you should see to understand the correct way to tie a traditional katana bag.

Within this article, we will explain another few steps to treat your katana including cleaning and disassembling your katana for further action, e.g., appreciating, changing tsuba, etc. Please consider reading 4 Must Have Ingredients For Katana Treatment to know what tools that will help you doing this tutorial.

I mentioned some ingredients for basic treatment for a katana blade in a post titled Ingredients For Basic Katana Treatment and now is time to move to the katana cleaning process. It is a good treatment practice if you always clean a katana after cutting practice to prevent rusty blade edge or so on, at least by doing simple katana cleaning to preserve your sword condition.

Made from the pure steel, the katana blade considerably needs proper treatment to maintain its fitness. For katana owners a knowledge to basic katana treatment is a must, so that the rust can be driven away from the blade. Before doing a basic treatment, it will be better to know what ingredients are needed to do the treatment process. Katana basic treatment mainly needs these ingredients.