AdamNovath
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away"- English proverb
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Post by AdamNovath on Feb 28, 2022 6:02:54 GMT
So I wanted a wakizashi in my collection for quite some time but between not wanting to spend the money on a wakizashi and not seeing much I liked I decided to check 2 blades off my list that I wanted, a wakizashi and a Satsuma-age blade. To put this together using a cut down ten ryu katana I wasn't using. I cut the blade down from around 27" to 17 1/4", reshaped the kissaki, shortened the tsuka, shortened the saya, refinished the saya, made a new horn kojiri, did a basic blade polish, added a horn kurigata dyed the sageo purple and last but not least I sharpened the kogatana. Since I was sharpening the kogatana I lengthened the cutting edge a bit as well. The shape of the kissaki is the shape traditionally used when swords broke or took so much damage they needed to be shortened to still be funtional. They were reshaped this way so that the reshaped kissaki was still made of hardened steel. Here's the link to the video in case anyone is interested in seeing more!
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Post by JH Lee on Feb 28, 2022 21:38:31 GMT
I always thought that kind of kissaki (made from broken blade) looked kind of like a seax.
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Post by leed on Feb 28, 2022 21:49:38 GMT
Cool! I've been thinking of shortening one of my Kats for a couple years now. Just too lazy to take on a time consuming project. Seax tip on a curved blade. The small problem with seax is the tip getting damaged, since it's thinner than the spine. My Stec machete/knife has a bent tip along with a few dents from chopping 2x4's.
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AdamNovath
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away"- English proverb
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Post by AdamNovath on Mar 1, 2022 20:59:21 GMT
Cool! I've been thinking of shortening one of my Kats for a couple years now. Just too lazy to take on a time consuming project. Seax tip on a curved blade. The small problem with seax is the tip getting damaged, since it's thinner than the spine. My Stec machete/knife has a bent tip along with a few dents from chopping 2x4's. Thanks! I get that, if you ever want it done I run my own business and offer blade modifications like this as a service as well as other repairs and modifications. I understand that, definitely can be more fragile although I would be interested to see a side by side comparison of 2 exact same swords with the only difference being one has a regular kissaki and one has the more seax shaped kissaki like this. I bet they'd actually perform pretty similarly being that even on a normal kissaki it can get fairly thin because of the edge bevel. Maybe I'm wrong though but I think it would still be an interesting test.
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AdamNovath
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away"- English proverb
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Post by AdamNovath on Mar 1, 2022 21:01:35 GMT
I always thought that kind of kissaki (made from broken blade) looked kind of like a seax. Me too! On my website I actually described this as a seax style point for that reason. I've always thought it was kinda cool. I have 2 more swords I've shortened in a similar manner but one has a longer tapering point and the other is a clip point. The clip point I did to copy an antique I saw one that I thought looked cool.
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