Manufacturer: Paul Chen
Name: folded steel bushido katana
Model: PC-1210
Blade Length: 27"
Blade Edge: Sharpened
Blade Material: High carbon, hand forged, folded steel
Blade Edge Hardness: RC60
Blade Spine Hardness: RC40
Overall Length: 40"
Extras: Cleaning Kit
Retail: $1716.82
Our Price: $1459.30 
Name: folded steel bushido wakizashi
Model: PC-1211
Blade Length: 18 3/8"
Blade Edge: Sharpened
Blade Material: High carbon, hand forged, folded steel
Blade Edge Hardness: RC60
Blade Spine Hardness: RC40
Overall Length: 25 1/2"
Extras: Cleaning Kit
Retail: $1228.12
Our Price: $1043.90
Name: folded steel bushido tanto
Model: PC-1212
Blade Length: 9 1/8"
Blade Edge: Sharpened
Blade Material: High carbon, hand forged, folded steel
Blade Edge Hardness: RC60
Blade Spine Hardness: RC40
Overall Length: 14 3/8"
Retail: $907.80
Our Price: $771.63
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Created by master smiths at the Dalian, Hanwei (China) forge of Chen Chao-po (Paul Chen), the Bushido Katana is a superb authentic piece. The blades are made from imported Swiss steel and even though they are highly polished, the nearly 1000 layers ( a product of the forge folding process ) are quite visible in the blade.
Like most of the Hanwei Swords, the Bushido is Forged in the maru-gitae style, using the traditional clay process dating from 700 AD, producing a hard cutting edge (60 RC) while maintaining the body of the blade at 40 RC hardness for resilience and shock absorption. The blade's temper line (o-midari, meaning "turbulent sea") is one of the most beautiful and important features of the Japanese sword; many "temper lines" are simply etched or ground into a blade and have no functional value but a true temper line indicates that the edge has been independently hardened in the traditional manner. A sure way of checking the authenticity of a temper line is firstly to check if the "waves" are spaced in an exactly uniform pattern (the spacing in a true temper line will be slightly irregular) and then to verify that the pattern is "mirrored" on each side of the blade, signifying that the edge is hardened through the blade, rather than just at the surface.
The tsuba (guard) is a finely-rendered shogun with drawn sword and surrounded by ribbons. The tsuka (grip) is genuine top-grade ray skin-covered wood, attached securely to the nakago (tang) with bamboo pegs. The tsuka-ito (grip wrapping) is Japanese premium cotton cord wrapped very tightly in the traditional pattern to display the ray skin and the menuki.
Other authentic details of the Bushido Folded Blade Katana include a traditional Old Gold lacquer finished wood saya (scabbard), with a buffalo horn kojori (end cap), koi-guchi (throat cap) and kuri-gata (wrapping cord eyelet). A kenye (fine-cloth bag) and a traditional maintenance kit are included. The kit contains blade oil, rice papers, oiling cloth, a powder ball for blade polishing and a brass awl and hammer.
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