Musashi Wakizashi Sword Review
Forged by Ten Ryu
Price: $210 with $17 shipping for me
Measurements:
Blade: 19 1/2"
Handle: 9 1/2"
Overall: 30"
This wakizashi is completely hand made by the Ten Ryu forge. Usually the best thing about buying a sword isn't the sword, it's the cardboard box it comes in because nothing feels better than to cut the box with your brand-new blade. I've never bought from Ten Ryu before and i quite liked their dragon emblem and box design so that was a good first impression :).
Like most swords, it came in the standard hard composite cardboard mailing tubes which makes one of the best backyard test cutting and almost equal to traditional japanese tameshigiri cutting.
The sword came in a really high quality sword bag that was breathable and probably made out of some bamboo mesh material that was quite impressive. Happy happy so far!
Also included was a traditional Japanese sword maintenance kit. I didn't like the fact that the box was made from pine wood.
Inside the kit were: rice paper for cleaning, a kind of screw hammer for dismantling the sword, choji oil for anti-rust, a cloth and a powder ball for removing moisture. I loved the authenticity and it felt very formally Japanese. Even cleaning the sword is a form of meditation in itself because of its complicated, delightful and spiritual nature.
I took the sword out of the sword bag and was just reminded of anime. It was truly identical to what we see in anime. The painted black timber saya had a speckled finish that i thought was artistically tasteful but it was the little bow wrap that caught my eye which i thought was superbly done unlike cheaper variations where it would consist of ribbon and plastic instead of cotton flat rope and brass. Taking the blade out of the saya is breath-taking. It is a razor sharp blade that is fully functional and is full tang. The light reflecting off the blade was orgasmic and it truly looked deadly. The blade is either hand forged clay tempered 1095 spring steel or CS1045 carbon steel but it is definitely heat treated, making it fantastic value for money. The blade featured a groove which only makes it sexier and lighter for faster more precise swings rather than choppy cutting blows. It also has a patinated brass fuchi/kashira which is like the bridge between a dangerous sexiness of the blade and a passive sexiness of the handle.
Gripping it, I found that both one arm and two arms felt natural and the fact that this wakizashi accommodated for both was very thoughtful
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Speckled finish
The tsuka was black cotton over white rayskin. What really blowed me away was the quality of the rayskin and simply the fact that it was real. Most katanas in the sub $250 range these days don't offer genuine rayskin and are instead imitation, but this rayskin was on par with those you would find in $1000 dollar katanas. The cotton was wrapped really well and the brass design was nice.
The design is based off Miyamoto Musashi's sword because his sword had the famous Iron Double Ring guard, which is thus why this sword is called Musashi Wakizashi.
The edge of the sword and tip are razor sharp and aesthetic
Pretty much all you need to know to know a sword is boss is whether it has a real hamon. Hamon is that squiggly line that is different shade to the rest of the metal on the blade that takes the sword to a whole other level and this sword has a REAL hamon. Holy moly doly. Max authenticity.
For a $210 sword, this sword is absolutely astonishing. It is capable of occasional medium to heavy cutting which pretty means anything from fruit, juice cartons, wood, tameshigiri mats, bamboo and meat. All in all, not a single fault in this sword and thus this sword gets:
5/5 Monads
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