Swords
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A recent wakizashi of mine. Forged 1050 steel, copper habaki, browned steel tsuba and fittings and silk over ray tsuka. I made everything on the sword from raw materials.
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Getting fancy with the pictures here. My standard hira zakuri tanto with a copper habaki.
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A layered steel tanto. Steel is 1095 and 1050 with just a couple of pieces of L6 to add flavor, around 320 layers. Plain copper habaki. Sold as bare blade.
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Showing off the hamon. These early ones were polished down to 600 grit and fairly aggresively etched. Gives a different look to what I'm doing now.
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Same as above, different angle.
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The only european sword I've done so far.
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Another tanto. Forged 1050. Copper habaki. Sold as a bare blade.
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A nice katana, which I fully mounted for the first time. I forged a 1050 blade and sent it to Brandon Thell at Foreveredge.com for polishing. Found some nice fittings in several places to match up and made the tsuka and saya in a nice light green.
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