New Sword Day - Custom Katana from Huawei Swords
Jun 23, 2011 12:01:07 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2011 12:01:07 GMT
After reading a few good reviews about Huawei swords on ebay I decided I would give them a go and have a sword custom made. I ordered:
Blade:
*Shinogi Zukuri style blade 29 inches (73.5 cm)in length
*Half Bo-hi from bottom to middle
*Material: Hand Forged,Clay tempered T10, Water Quenched,DH,Hand Polished with harmon
*Slight easy curve in blade similar to the Darksword Armoury Akio Hattori katana's.
*Full tang with 2 mekugi pegs
*Razor sharp
*Blade thickness: made for cutting medium targets (bamboo, water bottles, tree branches)
*Good balance point and Straight
Handle + fittings:
*12 inch (30 cm) Quality hardwood Tsuka
*Full wrap of black dyed same ray skin
*Black cotton or silk ito (what ever you use) in traditional alternating diamond wrap
*Dragon, Samurai and old man in coach tsuba, menuki, fuchi and kashira set
*decorated style Habaki
*Sturdy tight handle and fittings so they don't rattle or become loose as i need it for dojo cutting.
Saya:
Style H - Black polished saya with same black and white skin.
After about about 40 days it came in the mail. Very happy with what I got. Extremely well fitted, all fittings are tight. It feels great to handle and is very well balanced and the blade looks beautiful. For $300 I wasn't expecting something this good. But I did notice a couple of little errors such as - I asked for a Half Hi and got a full Hi (Which I didnt mind because I was actually thinking about this later and wish i had of asked for the full hi) and the Kashira is upside down which is pretty noticable with this design (but again i can let this go as I cant be bothered sending it back to get corrected or upset its fitting etc).
Gave it a run with cutting this morning with a couple of plastic 2L milk bottles and it sliced through them with no problems.
Anyway They did a great job and I'm beyond happy and would definately order another sword from them.
Anyway heres the pics:
Blade:
*Shinogi Zukuri style blade 29 inches (73.5 cm)in length
*Half Bo-hi from bottom to middle
*Material: Hand Forged,Clay tempered T10, Water Quenched,DH,Hand Polished with harmon
*Slight easy curve in blade similar to the Darksword Armoury Akio Hattori katana's.
*Full tang with 2 mekugi pegs
*Razor sharp
*Blade thickness: made for cutting medium targets (bamboo, water bottles, tree branches)
*Good balance point and Straight
Handle + fittings:
*12 inch (30 cm) Quality hardwood Tsuka
*Full wrap of black dyed same ray skin
*Black cotton or silk ito (what ever you use) in traditional alternating diamond wrap
*Dragon, Samurai and old man in coach tsuba, menuki, fuchi and kashira set
*decorated style Habaki
*Sturdy tight handle and fittings so they don't rattle or become loose as i need it for dojo cutting.
Saya:
Style H - Black polished saya with same black and white skin.
After about about 40 days it came in the mail. Very happy with what I got. Extremely well fitted, all fittings are tight. It feels great to handle and is very well balanced and the blade looks beautiful. For $300 I wasn't expecting something this good. But I did notice a couple of little errors such as - I asked for a Half Hi and got a full Hi (Which I didnt mind because I was actually thinking about this later and wish i had of asked for the full hi) and the Kashira is upside down which is pretty noticable with this design (but again i can let this go as I cant be bothered sending it back to get corrected or upset its fitting etc).
Gave it a run with cutting this morning with a couple of plastic 2L milk bottles and it sliced through them with no problems.
Anyway They did a great job and I'm beyond happy and would definately order another sword from them.
Anyway heres the pics:
it is all that matters 
