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2. Cold Steel (company) - Wikipedia

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   Cold Steel, Inc., is an American retailer of knives/bladed tools, training weapons, swords and other martial arts edged and blunt weapons.Founded in Ventura, California, the company is currently based in Irving, Texas, after an acquisition by GSM Outdoors in 2020. [1]

3. Japanese swordsmithing - Wikipedia

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   The steel used in sword production is known as tamahagane (玉鋼:たまはがね), or "jewel steel" (tama – ball or jewel, hagane – steel). Tamahagane is produced from iron sand, a source of iron ore, and mainly used to make samurai swords, such as the katana, and some tools.

4. Tamahagane - Wikipedia

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   The word tama means 'precious', and the word hagane means 'steel'. [1] Tamahagane is used to make Japanese swords , daggers , knives , and other kinds of tools. The carbon content of the majority of analyzed Japanese swords historically lies between a mass of 0.5–0.7%; however, the range extends up to 1.5%.

5. Japanese kitchen knife - Wikipedia

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   They can be made from stainless steel, or hagane, which is the same kind of steel used to make Japanese swords. [1] Most knives are referred to as hōchō ( Japanese : 包丁/庖丁 ) or the variation -bōchō in compound words (because of rendaku ) but can have other names including -kiri ( 〜切り , lit. "-cutter") .

6. Hamon (swordsmithing) - Wikipedia

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   Katana, showing the hamon as the outline of the yakiba. The nioi appears faintly as the bright line following the hamon; especially visible at the tip (kissaki). In swordsmithing, hamon (刃文) (from Japanese, literally "edge pattern") is a visible effect created on the blade by the hardening process.

7. Tantō - Wikipedia

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   A tantō (短刀, ' short blade ') [1] is a traditionally made Japanese knife [2] (nihontō) [3] [4] that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The tantō dates to the Heian period, when it was mainly used as a weapon but evolved in design over the years to become more ornate.

8. MythBusters (2006 season) - Wikipedia

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   The team tested impacts between various types of swords. A genuine Japanese-constructed katana sliced through a replica stainless-steel sword, and it also broke a genuine sword through stress fracturing. The katana bent a rapier until it snapped, but it did not cut through the blade. When a Claymore struck the katana, the katana flexed but did ...

9. Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai - Wikipedia

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   The magazine presents commentaries with images of famous swords and sword tools. A question was presented as a "paper appraisal" showing the Oshigata of the Hamon (刃文の押形), and the correct answer is explained in the next issue. In 1955, the first sword technology presentation was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and thereafter ...