Over the last 3 summers my friend and I have been trying to forge our own katana's just for fun. He himself has been doing Kendo for about 4 years and I"ve been learning from him for the last few months. I like it, it's fun. Don't think I'll ever get serious with it but, hey, it's good to have dabbled with.
Anyhoo, this summer we're going to try again. The last three swords we tried to make always broke.
We used steel bar stock to make the swords. He has a forge (he lives in a house that was built in the early 1920's) in his backyard and we use that to forge the weapon along with hammers and buckets of water.
The handles are made of bamboo or pine or oak, depending on what we have. And wrapped in cotton straps. We usually bolt the tang into the handle by drilling it and using some 10mm hex nuts with an adjoining bolt.
Any ideas as to why they break?
Anyhoo, this summer we're going to try again. The last three swords we tried to make always broke.
We used steel bar stock to make the swords. He has a forge (he lives in a house that was built in the early 1920's) in his backyard and we use that to forge the weapon along with hammers and buckets of water.
The handles are made of bamboo or pine or oak, depending on what we have. And wrapped in cotton straps. We usually bolt the tang into the handle by drilling it and using some 10mm hex nuts with an adjoining bolt.
Any ideas as to why they break?
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