{"id":3669,"date":"2021-07-19T21:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T02:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2021-07-19T21:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T02:43:33","slug":"forge-directs-elite-custom-katana-is-finally-accepting-new-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/forge-directs-elite-custom-katana-is-finally-accepting-new-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Forge Direct’s Elite Custom Katana is finally accepting new commissions!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It has been over a year in the making, but we are over the moon to advise our customers that one of our best quality products – our flagship of the Forge Direct Japanese Sword line – the Custom Katana, is finally taking new commissions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest change between the current version, the Custom Katana 4.70 and 3.0 is we have had to re-release it with a standard blade length of 28″ (measured from the munemachi – the back notch of the habaki to the tip, add around an extra 1.5″ if measuring from the guard) which is pretty much the default for a comfortable feeling sword for the majority of modern practitioners (who are on the average, a fair bit taller than historical Samurai).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we realize that this may preclude some people with specific blade lengths in mind from ordering this time around, it was either this or order 400 saya just to be able to take the first order, so for those of you requiring different blade lengths, please wait until we release a specific new sword design in a specific blade length (feel free to email me with suggestions as to what blade length you might need).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For everyone else who just wants a REALLY nicely made blade in beautiful custom fittings (now with hishigami as standard, plus buffalo horn kurikata on the saya), the wait is finally over and it is time to fire up the forge..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the biggest changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We already mentioned it, but there are four main changes between the current incarnation of this sword (version 4.0) and when we closed off on new orders in June 2020 (version 3.0):<\/p>\n\n\n\n