Design Your Own Katana! - Sword Buyers Guide

SBG $330 Entry Level Custom Katana! (2.0)

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To create your sword design, simply click on the thumbnails and view the larger pictures. Choose what designs you like the most, and then use the drop down menu below to make your selections.

I'll confirm with you by email once I receive your design, but in the meantime, enjoy designing your sword!

NEW ORDERS PAUSED

As we make these swords in batches, we are currently holding of on accepting new orders until the current ones have been completed by the forge. To be notified when we start accepting new orders again sign up to the custom Katana waiting list and we will notify you by email when we open up for another narrow window of opportunity to create your own design

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Steps to Customize your Katana:
Refer to the images above to view the different choices.

1) Blade Style: Choose between the standard Katana, the double-edged Kogarasu, and the straight bladed Ninjato.

2) Sword Length: Select the length, measured from the munemachi (back notch of the habaki, the traditional way of measuring length/nagasa)

3) Fuller Type: Select no-hi (stronger, more powerful cutter) or with bo-hi (faster and lighter sword)

4) Tsuba: Select the tsuba (hand guard) in either Brass and Alloy. The Brass tsuba are made from better quality metal, but many of the Alloy offer attractive designs.

5) Fittings: Choose matched pairs of alloy Fuchi and Kashira fittings.

6) Ito Color & Type: Select the ito handle wrap in cotton or synthetic silk (rayon) glossy cord. The tsuka (handle) is generally 10.5" long, though will vary by half an inch either way to achieve optimum balance for the sword.

7) Same: Choose white (traditional) or black (exotic) for the same (rayskin) underlay.

8) Saya: Select saya (sheath) color. The sageo (cord wrap) is the same color as the ito handle wrap selected above.

Price: $329.99

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"An SBG Exclusive - design your own custom Katana!"

We take high quality differentially hardened and traditionally clayed high speed tungsten based T-10 Tool Steel blades. Then YOU select the length of the blade, whether or not you want it fullered, choose a solid brass tsuba, style of fuchi and kashira, color of the ito, same (rayskin) and the saya and create your own unique personalized design!

But it gets even better, because rather than shipping direct from the forge and hoping for the best - we send each sword to a warehouse in Canada where it is pre-inspected for quality and then shipped out to you ANYWHERE in the world, with the whole process from your order to final shipping usually taking only approx 90 days (sometimes slightly more, sometimes slightly less).

We have seriously squeezed our margins to be able to bring you a blade of exceptional quality and sharpeness mounted in your choice of fittings. With over 6,000,000 different possible combinations, this is your chance to own a unique one of a kind sword at a previously unheard of (flat rate) price...

If you haven't seen it already, click here to read the full review and test results

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How to Order Your Custom Katana

A completed custom Katana: the fittings are a P1 Tsunami Tsuba,
C1 water themed Fuchi and Kashira, A1 Blue Cotton Ito and Black Same

We have kept the number of options deliberately simple, but over the years the number of different designs I have seen people come up with is staggering!

To get started, simply have a look through the various component choices at the top of the page, select the ones you like using the drop down menu and when you feel 'yup, this will look cool' , hit the order button and I'll be in contact with you to confirm your choices.

Once everything seems good to go, we'll fire up the forge a couple of weeks later and begin work on your own unique, one of a kind custom made Katana!

PLEASE NOTE: While we will do our very best to create your sword as close as humanly possible to that you design you enter below, please note that because we are using stock photos of the components and that computer monitor colors are different depending on the settings, some SMALL variations between the colors and designs seen above and the final product are to be expected. Below are a few examples of what the combinations end up looking like.

SOME EXAMPLES:

Click here to see examples of customer designs and how it all comes together in our Custom Sword Gallery!

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Component Information

The blades are available in 3 different geometries, standard Katana, Kogarasu (double edged tip) and a 'Ninjato' (Chokuto - straight blade). All are made from high performance T10 Tungsten Alloy tool steel, and differentially hardened in the traditional manner to produce an authentic, unenhanced hamon.

Available in 3 lengths, 27" (for people under 5'3"), 28" (5'3" to 5'8") and 29" (over 5'8").

Tsuba's are solid brass or alloy, and all the Fuchi/Kashira sets are also made from an alloy.

Ito is available in either cotton or synthetic 'silk' (rayon).

The rayskin is real and available in either white (natural) or black. All swords are double pegged with bamboo mekugi.

The saya are laquered wood and available in a wide range of glossy and sparkling colors as well as a textured black.

Version 2.0 of the SBG Custom Katana comes with a much more carefully kissaki (tip) than most other swords in this price range (see pic below).

Typical kissaki on right, new improved kissaki left

Please bear in mind that as the components are not made by our forge but purchased by a major Katana component supplier, we don't have any other pictures of them and cannot really help to identify some of the more obscure ones, however if you get stuck feel free to contact me and I'll do my best to help out.