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Hunter Wakizashi

€1,125.00

The Hunter Wakizashi is built on the Hanwei L6/Bainite blade in the Shinogi Zukuri style, and featuring superb koshirae, the Hunter is a very desirable and functional piece.

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The Hunter Wakizashi is built on the Hanwei L6/Bainite blade in the Shinogi Zukuri style, and featuring superb koshirae, the Hunter is a very desirable and functional piece.

The subdued green silk ito and green striped lacquered saya compliment the blackened tsuba with golden accents, featuring a raptor stalking his next prey.

Bainite is a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock absorption characteristics. It has been known as an exemplary Katana blade component for a number of years, but its use has been restricted to a few top-class master smiths due to the difficulties involved in performing the exacting heat-treatment procedures necessary for the production of a Bainit e blade body in combination with the very hard Martensite Yakiba (edge section) required for Katana blades.

Hanwei has now mastered this difficult process, using billets of L-6 tool steel (a very tough high-carbon low-alloy steel) as a starting point for this katana. Blades are forged and shaped in the normal way, then carefully heat-treated to achieve the required Bainite and Martensite structures before final polishing.

The matching Hunter Katana (Product no. SH2471) is also available to complete your collection.

Specifiations:

L6/Bainite blade
Silk sageo
Traditional construction
Overall length: approx. 70 cm
Blade length: approx. 50.8 cm
Handle length: approx. 15.9 cm
Weight: approx. 615 g
Point of balance: approx. 8.9 cm from the guard

Specs may slightly vary from piece to piece.

SH2472