07-30-2017, 10:59 PM
Wow, the katana is a whole lot more complicated to make than I thought. And I never realized that the blade is essentially straight until the last quenching step -- if I understand correctly. Very nice.
A couple questions:
1) The dude preparing the handle made a big deal about the ray skin, how important it is to give the right grip. But then he proceeded to wrap silk cord over it to the point that the hand can never touch the ray skin. Am I missing something? Fantastic looking result, by the way.
2) So Rebel built himself a Yari, which is great. He's got a Yari there and we see it. But then when he's doing some demonstration moves, it's with a staff. And afterwards his dad comments, "Just imagine what that would be like with a sword on the end." So what happened to his Yari? Was the demo shot somewhere else, and he didn't have the Yari with him?"
I ask nothing but important questions, by the way (said with a hair toss).
A couple questions:
1) The dude preparing the handle made a big deal about the ray skin, how important it is to give the right grip. But then he proceeded to wrap silk cord over it to the point that the hand can never touch the ray skin. Am I missing something? Fantastic looking result, by the way.
2) So Rebel built himself a Yari, which is great. He's got a Yari there and we see it. But then when he's doing some demonstration moves, it's with a staff. And afterwards his dad comments, "Just imagine what that would be like with a sword on the end." So what happened to his Yari? Was the demo shot somewhere else, and he didn't have the Yari with him?"
I ask nothing but important questions, by the way (said with a hair toss).