Tamahagane Folded Steel katana no groove to blade
Barringtons Swords brings a new Katana, based on the forging technique of Makuri. The blade is made up of a soft steel inside (shingane) coated with a hard steel (kawagane) with higher percentage of carbon. The material is called tama-hagane:

Sugata (Blade style):
Hand-forged curved blade without Hi (groove) with Chu-Kissaki (tip). The blade spine is iori-mune. The blade is forged from 2 billets of steel, the softer low carbon steel is embedded into the harder Tamahagane steel. This forging art comes from the Japanese model Makuri which was taught in Japan for centuries but only to the best smith. The two steels are forged up to 32768 layers and thanks to the traditional clay-wrapping technique for differential hardening, you can see the martensite crystals and the Hamonline. This is made visible with our carbon steel blade only by traditional hand polishing. The hardness of the Mune is ca 48° HRC and the Ha (blade edge) is ca 61° HRC.

Katana Dimensions:
Nagasa (blade length): ca. 71 cm / 28 inch.
Sori (curvature): ca 1.52 cm / 0,6 inch.
Moto-Kasane (Thickness at base): ca. 8 mm/ 0.31 inch.
Saki-Haba (width at tip): ca. 24 mm / 0.94 inch.
Moto-Haba (width at base): ca. 32 mm / 1.26 inch.
Balance point (measured from Habaki): ca.11 cm / 4.33 inch
Nakago (tang) with Mei (inscription) according to the tradition: Year of production.

Wakizashi Dimensions:
Nagasa (blade length): 20 inch.
Nakago (tang) with Mei (inscription) according to the tradition: - year of production.

Tamahagane Folded Steel Katana & Wakizashi one groove to blade
Barringtons Swords brings a new wakizashi, based on the forging technique of Makuri. The blade is made up of a soft steel inside (shingane) coated with a hard steel (kawagane) with higher percentage of carbon. The material is called tama-hagane:

Sugata (Blade style):
Hand-forged curved blade with Bohi (groove) with Chu-Kissaki (tip).

The blade spine is iori-mune. The blade is forged from 2 billets of steel, the softer low carbon steel is embedded into the harder Tamahagane steel. This forging art comes from the Japanese model Makuri which was taught in Japan for centuries but only to the best smith. The two steels are forged up to 32768 layers and thanks to the traditional clay-wrapping technique for differential hardening, you can see the martensite crystals and the Hamonline. This is made visible with our carbon steel blade only by traditional handl polishing. The hardness of the Mune is ca 48° HRC and the Ha (blade edge) is ca 61° HRC.

Katana Dimensions:
Nagasa (blade length): ca. 71 cm / 28 inch.
Sori (curvature): ca 1.52 cm / 0,6 inch.
Moto-Kasane (Thickness at base): ca. 8 mm/ 0.31 inch.
Saki-Haba (width at tip): ca. 24 mm / 0.94 inch.
Moto-Haba (width at base): ca. 32 mm / 1.26 inch.
Balance point (measured from Habaki): ca.11 cm / 4.33 inch
Nakago (tang) with Mei (inscription) according to the tradition: - Year of production.

Wakizashi Dimensions:
Nagasa (blade length): 20 inch.
Nakago (tang) with Mei (inscription) according to the tradition: - year of production.

Tamahagane Folded Steel 'Nobufusa' Katana
Barringtons Swords brings a new wakizashi, based on the forging technique of Makuri. The blade is made up of a soft steel inside (shingane) coated with a hard steel (kawagane) with higher percentage of carbon. The material is called tama-hagane:

Sugata (blade style):
Hand-forged curved blade with Bohi ni tsure-hi (one small and one large groove) The outside groove is larger than the inside grrove. Blade with Chu-Kissaki (tip). The blade spine is iori-mune. The blade is forged from 2 billets of steel, the softer low carbon steel is embedded into the harder Tamahagane steel. This forging art comes from the Japanese model Makuri which was taught in Japan for centuries but only to the best smith. The two steels are forged up to 32768 layers and using the traditional clay-wrapping technique for differential hardening, you can see the martensite crystals and the Hamonline. This is made visible with our carbon steel blade only by traditional hand polishing. The hardness of the Mune is ca 48° HRC and the Ha (blade edge) is ca 61° HRC.

Dimensions:
Nagasa (blade length): ca. 71 cm / 28 inch.
Sori (curvature): ca.2.54 cm / 1 inch.
Moto-Kasane (Thickness at base): ca. 8 mm/ 0.31 inch.
Saki-Haba (width at tip): ca. 22 mm / 0.86 inch.
Moto-Haba (width at base): ca. 32 mm / 1.26 inch.
Balance point (measured from Habaki): ca.10 cm / 3.93 inch
Nakago (tang) with Mei (inscription) according to the tradition: year of production.