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How do you make a Samurai sword?
I have just thought that I would like to make a real Samurai sword. What equipment would I need, materials, skills, etc.
How much do ‘designer’ swords sell for?
Is there a market for custom swords outside of Japan?
It just came to me whilst watching Jeepers Creepers 2 when the farmer was making a weapon i.e. blacksmithing on an anvil.
Additionally:
Is it true they fold the metal hundreds of times?
and
What is the most expensive ‘modern’ sword?
To create a samurai sword you need to study for many years about 2 or 5 years with a real black smith. he will give you all the knowledge you will need.
The equiptment and materials you will need are:
1 tatara or a traditional japanese open forge.
2 Tamahagane: traditional japanes steel made from iron and carbon from coal.
3 a smithing hammer and an anvil
4 a dipping bowl or the like for dipping the sword in the water to give it a very hard edge.
5 clay to protect the rest of the blade when tampering.
6 coarse polishing stones to bring out some of the swords detail.
The skills you will need to master are:
1 Determining caarbonized and uncarbonized steel.
2 determining how much carbon a steel has
3 folding techniques
4 determining the right temperature for tampering.
Materials in sword polishing are different and consist mainly of rough, coarse, hard, soft and fine stones Also polishing takes longer time to master probably about 10 years.
A designer sword could sell for about 100 to 1000 dollars or more depending on the intricacy of the design and the complexity of construction.
There are a lot of markets outside japan for swords just look at e bay.
Yes its true that a blade needs to be folded to evenly distribute the carbon content inside a steel. some smiths fold the steel roughly about 10 to 25 plus or lower number of times depending on the smith. Folding the steel far to many times for example a staggering 100 times could result in the burning of carbon and the ruining of the sword.
The traditional Making of a Samurai Sword (Katana)
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