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Get it between 2025-01-02 to 2025-01-09. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
L6/bainite high carbon steel blade
Traditional construction
Blackened tsuba with golden accents
Matching wakizashi is also available Sh2472
The Hunter Katana is built on the hanwei L6/bainite blade in the shinogi zukuri style, and featuring superb koshirae, the Hunter is a very desirable and functional piece. The subdued green silk ito and green striped lacquered saya compliment the blackened tsuba with golden accents, featuring a Raptor Stalking his next Prey. Bainite is a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock Absorption characteristics. It has been known as an exemplary Katana blade component for a number of years but its use has been restricted to a few top-class master smiths, due to the difficulties involved in performing the exacting heat treatment procedures necessary for the production of a bainite blade body in combination with the very hard martensite yakiba (edge section) required for Katana blades. Hanwei has now mastered this difficult process, using billets of l-6 tool steel (a very tough high-carbon low-alloy steel) as a starting point. Blades are forged and shaped in the normal way, then carefully heat treated to achieve the required bainite and martensite structures before final polishing.