Don't buy a katana without watching this video! Budget katana reviewed and ranked
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
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This video is a wrap-up of my recent budget katana review series. I rank each of the 5 katana I reviewed and talk a little bit about each.
The full reviews can be viewed in this playlist: • Sword Review - Romance...
Links to these katana listings:
YariNoHanzo Practical Musashi: yarinohanzo.com/musashi-katan...
Cloudhammer: cloudhammerforge.com/collecti...
Romance of Men Yurei Jigoku: romanceofmen.com/collections/...
Romance of Men custom: romanceofmen.com/products/bui...
Sheng-Sword Shobu Zukuri: sheng-sword.com/product/japan...
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I already bought my son's katana Christmas present, but this is a great list. I see there are only 30 likes on this video, but I REALLY appreciate this series and putting this together in an easy to understand video. There are SO many budget katanas it is very difficult to know what is good vs. crap.
Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words, and your son has the coolest parent in the world for buying him a sword for Christmas!
I second that
Excellent conclusion of the series. It's been a fun ride. Some of these brands have terrible brandings and marketing and they are definitely lesser known not for their quality. "Yari No Hanzo" seems to mean "Hanzo's Spear", could be a catchier name.
Hope you can do a similar series on affordable longswords/hand-and-a-half swords in the future, with some of your recent acquisitions of sub-800 longswords.
Amazing vid thsnks
Very detailed video, thank you. I'm looking at a t-10 hardened real clay tempered not wire brushed or acid etched hamon katana. I have a hand Forged folded high carbon steel katana which is not bad for the price. It stands up to heavy cutting while keeping a edge with no damage not a perfect polish and a fake hamon line. Thankfully it was just over 100 dollars so what do you expect. But I'm willing to spend upwards of $800 to $1,000 but I've seen a handful of reviews yours being the best that shows the more money you spend does not necessarily get you a flawless katana. In other videos I've seen katanas around the $200 price range that both in fit finish and function exceed ones at 3 - 4 times the price. Again thank you for taking the time as this is one of the best videos I have watched when it comes to comparisons.
As you know, I'm just not into Katanas, and I know absolutely nothing about them.. but I still enjoyed this video. I always watch your videos on European swords (especially Albions haha) several times!
Thank you for your time!!!
My pleasure!
Please do you know the practical katana fudoshin odoiro Naturell ? … is this a good katana ? … thx
Great video ! The mercenary albion review is coming out soon?
I have it scheduled for January 13th.
Great video idea dude.
How did you go about acquiring the Yari No Hanzo? Always wanted to get one, but once I figure in the exchange rate and shipping, the price always seems a bit too much.
I contacted them asking if they were interested in providing a review sample. They replied in the positive and sent it to me.
@alientude oh nice. I'll have to give that a whirl. Lol.
That's not really click bait if your gana give a good break down on the swords.
Thanks! I'm just not much of a fan of this type of blatant attention grabs.
I wish people would do videos on steel. I’m willing to bet. Many of these are actually just 1045 or maybe 1060. And not really 9260 or T10 like so many places claim. You almost can’t make the steel for that price.
I've that exact cloud hammer Katana it is pretty nice but i also have a better cloud hammer that is beautiful i don't even want to cut with it😂
I clicked on the title!
How do you feel about the Ronin entry level and the Dojo pro?
No experience with the entry level. I have one of their dojo pro ko-katana that I'm going to review at some point. Not sure exactly when though.
What a journey
I know the youtube algorithm struggle
As someone who is extremely familiar with pocket knives and their steels...what would you rate as the best sword steels. I'm unfamiliar with many of them.
For example, for me, my overall favorite steels for pocket knives are Magnacut & s110v. Obviously, a lot goes into steel quality like heat treat and edge geometry but to keep it simple:
*what do you consider the best sword steels in the low, mid and high price ranges/quality.
**for example, to me, it would be:
Low: s30v
Mid: Magnacut
High: s110v, elmax
What are your recommendations for swords?
So that's quite the loaded question, actually. The short answer is that the specific steel matters far, far less than the proper heat treat. While there are minor gains that can theoretically be had by using advanced alloys, the more simple and "common" ones such as 1060, 1075, 5160, and 6150 are generally quite good for swords.
One of the primary reasons there's a lot more tech and steel types involved in knives is that they don't tend to have the same requirements as swords. With your typical sword blade being somewhere between 2 and 4 feet long, there's a lot more need for swords to be able to handle greater degrees of vibration in the blade. Knife steels, as I understand it, tend to be optimizing for hardness and corrosion resistance. A sword needs a degree of hardness, particularly at the edge, but as the steel gets harder, it also gets more brittle, so a sword that is very hard is likely to break due to the vibrations sending shock through the steel. Corrosion resistance is related - the alloys that tend to be resistant to corrosion typically do not have the toughness needed to handle flexibility.
That's not to say there isn't room for those kinds of alloys to make it into swords, but the reality is, the knife market is much, much larger than the sword market. Sword collecting is a niche within a niche within a niche. I'm not sure there's enough money to be made to justify the expense of the R&D.
So, all that being said, if I had to choose one steel for a katana above all others, it would probably be L6, specifically done by Howard Clark, who pioneered and mastered the heat treatment that turns L6 into a bainite edge with martensite body, which makes for a very hard edge but also incredibly tough body behind the edge.
@alientude appreciate the detailed answer!
Yeah, I kinda figured it'd be along those lines but wanted a starting point with a piece of steel required for swords and their purpose as opposed to knives and their purpose. I really appreciate you giving me an index point to start with as I learn about sword steels! Thank you!
What do you mean by rippling?? Blade bending or the hamon?
Rippling is an uneveness in the surface. It can be very light and hardly noticeable, or deep enough to actually affect the structural integrity of the sword. It's usually caused by the grinding process on the blade, with uneven amounts of steel removed that keeps the surface from being smooth.
How does Huawei compare to these?
The HuaWei I have is their T10 unokubi, which cost $268 at the time I bought it ($298 now). It would easily rank #1 here - take everything good I said about YariNoHanzo, and add better polish, tighter ito, and a very clean nakago. I did a review of it here: czcams.com/video/9H7Ck7lN8w0/video.html. It's an older review, so it's kind of rough, but hopefully still useful.
In terms of quality for price, you really can't beat HuaWei. Unfortunately, they have a very long backlog with a reputation for terrible customer service and communication.
Sincerely, I like unsharpened katanas for iaido and kenjutsu practices or ornament.
Katana would be a great zombies weapon
Where is the clickbait?
YariNoHanzo Musashi NoMore. Link goes to Iaito practice sword. 😢
They sell iaito by default, but you can contact them to get a shinken of this model.
Too bad your first two links are dead.
Thank you for pointing this out. I updated them.
Sorry your vidéo is good, but please STOP Touching the blade with your fingers!!!!!!