completely feels alive in your hands, making the cold steel feel like a bat. The hardest most durable tempered steel, with the elegance of traditional aesthetics, make this a battle ready piece of art. Unless the sword is traditionally folded and tempered it should not have a hamon. Since monotempered modern swords do not need two different types of metal, they have no hamon line. The modern swords with hamon lines are often faked with acid, and many still think it's from sharpening. This made the cutting edge cool rapidly, to make a strong hard edge And the back cool slowly to retain the flexibility. Made by covering the back of the blade with clay and quenching in water. ( I still want traditional forged sword  who wouldn't) the wave line you see on old traditional katana is called the hamon line. So while the traditional method produces a beautiful Damascus steel, it was nowhere as strong as the modern forging process. If that was done by a traditional katana, it would damage the cutting edge and actually hold the bend you put in it. While old katana would chip, or bend under stress, these new blades have been tested to hack through 2x4, bent into a horse shoe, just to spring back to dead straight, and still have a shaving sharp edge. This problem is now solved by spring steel, which can both hold an edge and flex extremely well. They also only had the high carbon steel in the cutting edge, so the sword would be flexible, yet hold an edge. I know it was an art, and alot of mythology surrounds the construction of the katana, but the reason for folding was to mix the types of steel to get a more uniform blend of metals.
The steel is even more durable, and is a more ideal blade than the traditional steel/iron folded blades of the past. The attention to detail is some of the best I've seen in modern forged katana, and according to "sword buyer's guide" and many other sources, it's unanimous that Ronin katana has the most traditionally crafted katana on the market in its class ( modern forged shinken) 1060 monotempered carbon blade has been torture tested to prove this is the most resilient blade a katana has ever had.
#Cold steel katana test skin#
Manta ray skin wrapped in silk for the hand. Traditional iron fittings, (which easily rival the cold steel fittings ) the saya (scabbard) is ornamented in Buffalo horn. The blossom on the iron guard and saya ornaments is to represent the falling leaf, or" hagakure " "HAGAKURE * is a piece of Japanese literature explaining the life of the samurai as a falling leaf. It has no bo-hi to keep weight into the smaller more narrow blade, making it exceptionally forceful for the size of the blade. The Ronin smaller, lighter, more curved blade with a 5" balance point, makes it extremely responsive, and agile. It has a bo-hi (blood groove) to try to remove some weight, but it's still by far the heavy duty cutter. (which actually naturally happens during the tempering process) the cold steel is 1055 monotempered carbon steel, it's longer, heavier, and has a 6" balance point, making it blade heavy for maximum cutting force. You can see the more pronounced natural bend in the Ronin. The big bruiser Cold Steel Warrior on the bottom. Here you can see the Ronin blade is more designed for agility, and the Cold steel for power. The hardened portion of the tip is slot larger on the cold steel.
Long “iris leaf” point for maximum cutting potential.Īdditionally, these swords come with two protective bags.The tips are quite different too. Theirĭeeply curved and hand polished 1060 steel blades terminate in a Teal-green silk cord-wrap and black same (ray skin) handles,Ĭomplementing rich iron furniture with a dragonfly motif. The Dragonfly Katana is a beautiful sword with a distinctive
#Cold steel katana test zip#
Sam√ (Ray Skin) Handle with Teal Green Silk Braid Cord & Brass Menuki.Steel: 1055 Carbon - The carbon content and lean alloy of this shallow hardening steel make this a very sturdy material that avoids a lot of the brittleness commonly associated with higher carbon materials.The Dragonfly Katana is a beautiful sword with a distinctive teal-green silk cord-wrap and black same (ray skin) handles, complementing rich iron furniture with a dragonfly motif.
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