{"id":814,"date":"2015-09-29T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/?p=814"},"modified":"2015-09-29T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T11:33:08","slug":"for-those-of-you-who-missed-project-x-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/for-those-of-you-who-missed-project-x-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"For those of you who missed Project X Japanese.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the next best thing &#8211; a stripped down, economical blade made by the same team of Master Smiths and brought to you by our friends at Ronin Katana.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_815\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bare-blade-Soshu-Kitae.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-815\" class=\"size-large wp-image-815\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bare-blade-Soshu-Kitae-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A Bare Blade in Soshu Kitae by the same smiths as Project X\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bare-blade-Soshu-Kitae-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bare-blade-Soshu-Kitae-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bare-blade-Soshu-Kitae.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bare Blade in Soshu Kitae by the same smiths as Project X<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beside the fact that they obviously don&#8217;t have the mountings as a Project X blade, the actual blades themselves are almost identical. Same elite level Soshu Kitae Lamination made by the same smiths, the only real difference is a little less time is spent on the final polish &#8211; but the difference is only truly discerable if examined with a magnifying glass. In all other respects, these are some of the very best Japanese style blades available outside of Japan &#8211; and at a fraction of the price of a modern made Nihonto with the same fittings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, while the lacquered wood and buffalo horn inserts are top quality, if you wish to take it to the next level yourself, you can find a wide assortment of tsuba, plus pre-fabricated tsuka and high quality saya <a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/ronin-katana-sword-parts.html\">available on our site here<\/a> &#8211; so with a little DIY skill here and there you could in theory create your very own customized Project X Katana! (of at least, pretty close!).<\/p>\n<p>Great value for money, check them out here. We have around 20pcs available ex-stock and they are priced to sell, so if you missed out on Project X Japanese last time, well &#8211; this is the next best thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ss_product\" id=\"product_1\" data-id=\"0c07ed10-65a7-11e5-aeb8-0025906488e4\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product540.html\">Click here for more info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the next best thing &#8211; a stripped down, economical blade made by the same team of Master Smiths and brought to you by our friends at Ronin Katana. Beside the fact that they obviously don&#8217;t have the mountings as a Project X blade, the actual blades themselves are \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/for-those-of-you-who-missed-project-x-japanese\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-x-swords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}