CAS Hanwei SH2472 Hunter L6/Bainite Wakizashi

The Hunter wakizashi is a highly desirable and functional piece, built on the hanwei L6/bainite blade in the shonogi zukuri style, and featuring superb koshirae. The subdued green silk ito and green striped lacquered saya with green silk sageo complement the blackened tsuba with golden accents, featuring a Raptor Stalking his next prey. Bainite, a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock absorption characteristics, is the key component of the blade. It has been known as an exemplary Katana blade element for 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 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. The overall length of the Hunter wakizashi is 27 1/2 inches, with a blade length of 20 inches and a handle length of 6 1/4 inches. The point of balance is 3 1/2 inches and the sori measures 1/2 inches. The blade steel used is L6.L6/bainite high carbon, and it features a handwoven silk sageo and traditional construction.

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