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Old 05-05-2010, 12:06 PM   #8
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Re: Shinto Ryu tameshigiri videos

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Christian Moses wrote: View Post
Mine's a shobu zukuri by Joe Walters using 1084 spring steel. It was a butter knife though until Adam Coleman reshaped and sharpened it. Saying it's "sharp" now doesn't really do justice to the edge on that thing.

The Bugei, as Jeremy mentioned, is an older early production run back when they were using Chinese railroad steel. It's been touched up a few times by Mike Femal at Nihonzashi who also does great work.

At the end of my video (when I'm not wearing a saya) I'm trying out one of the other guy's L6 Praying Mantis katana (also from Nihonzashi).
Ya, that blade looked Really sharp.... I've always liked the look of the Bugei Bamboo also....

Good stuff to see....

Larry Novick
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ACE Aikido
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