Wednesday, October 24, 2012
How good are Paul Chen Hanwei Samurai Swords?
CAS Hanwei produce entry level swords in the $100.00 to $2000.00 price range, generally of pretty high quality. Almost all swords produced in this day and age are production swords, and while there are a good number of Japanese katana manufacturers in the world today, Paul Chen Hanwei samurai swords are known to be of consistently high quality.
In terms of product offering, Paul Chen katana ubiquitously offer the following:
• Carbon Steel
• Fully functional
• Differential hardening
There is some variation in terms of steel used. Their varieties of steel include spring steel, bainite, and various grades of carbon steel for their katana blades; generally, you won’t find too many katana made by them using metals that don’t hold an edge (stainless steel, aluminum).
More updates and pictures en route.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Samurai Sword in the Walking Dead
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Who is the ninja girl with a katana in the Walking Dead?
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"I'm--I'm not crying for me. I'm crying for you. I
think about all the things I'm going to do to you and it makes me cry. It
scares me." – Michonne
Meet the Woody Harrelson of The Walking Dead- Michonne.
Every zombie storyline has its typecast characters- the scared guy, the hot
chick, the level headed leader, and the bad ass sociopath whose only reason for
existence seems to be zombie extermination. Enter Michonne on the Walking Dead,
a zombie killing machine armed with a Japanese katana and a mysterious past. Watch her in action here.
All that aside, about the sword used by Michonne in the
Walking Dead- I’ve been looking everywhere for a katana that’s similar to the
one she uses. Michonne uses a standard size katana with a tsuka(handle) that
may be longer than the norm. The tsuka and saya are white cord wrapped, and the
tsuka has black rayskin underwrapping. The tsuba(hilt) is silver color and
rounded. From the color and the sheen, I would guess that the katana is made of
either aluminum or a very highly polished stainless steel. The hamon pattern
seems too perfect of a wave pattern to have been forged using a differential
heat treating process and probably isn’t real.
As far as I know, this katana isn’t available yet, but if
you’re interested in picking up a samurai sword with a white tsuka, here are a
couple of options you may want to consider:
These swords don’t have white cord wrapped sayas(scabbards)
like Michonne’s does, but it shouldn’t
be too difficult to set up your own- check out this tutorial:
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