Love these straight blade ninja swords, the hamon is awesome the blade is straight and beautiful . Black and gold look great and love the plastic on the handle and like the different habaki, the Saya was damaged during transport from overseas but very slight, this could be avoided by putting a box around the Styrofoam as they do for any (ready to ship)swords which I don't understand, and the suba moves slightly but don't care cause this thing is awesome and would like to chop stuff but don't want to mess it up so just going to show it off ,this site may be habit forming ...lol
This gorgeous blade arrived right on time.
The only drawbacks are...
A slight nick, on the spine near the Tsuba.
And the blade was not wrapped. So I oiled the blade straight away.
With the niggles over with.
The blade is gorgeous. As are the Tsuba, saya, sageo, tsuka, and cord wrap. Can never recall the Japanese term.
It looks tan in the picture. It's actually a beautiful gold cord.
The suprise is how light this one is. The blood gutters really put what little weight there is very close to your hand. Maybe 4 inches forward of the Tsuba.
This blade is so delightfully light I could duel wield a pair like Inosuke Hashibira! 👍
But of course I've already dinged up the saya.
Fantastic Ninjato.
Next will be one of the two white ones.