Description
The Hunter Wakizashi is built on the Hanwei L6/Bainite blade in the Shonogi 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 with green silk sageo 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 Bainite 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. Blades are forged and shaped in the normal way, then carefully heat treated to achieve the required Bainite and Martensite structures before final polishing.
Collect the set; a samurai wore two swords, matching Katana and Wakizashi are available to complete your collection!
- Very desirable and functional piece with hand forged L6/Bainite Blade
- Bainite structure combines strength with excellent flexibility and shock absorption
- High quality traditional construction
- Subdued green silk ito and silk sageo on the saya
- Raptor stalking his pray depicted on the tsuba and kashira with golden accents
- Includes striped lacquered wooden saya
- Includes a traditional cloth bag to keep your sword in pristine condition when in storage or while transporting
- Includes traditional Japanese sword maintenance kit
- Overall length: 70.1 cm
- Blade length: 52.7 cm
- Handle length: 16.5 cm
- Weight: 0.66 kg
- Point of balance from the guard: 9.2 cm
- Blade width at guard: 2.97 cm
- Blade width at tip: 1.84 cm
- Blade thickness at guard: 8.0 mm
- Blade thickness at tip: 3.0 mm
- Blade material: L6/Bainite
- Sharpness: Very sharp
- Manufacturer: Hanwei
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