Premium Musashi Wakizashi with Folded Steel Reviews

3.5 Rating 2 Reviews

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How's the Blade?

How are the Handle and Fittings?

“Blade is not sharp at all. Two inches of the blade from yokote down is completely blunt. Habaki has movement and rattles. Sword fits loosely and has movement in the saya. The folded steel pattern is very nice and subtle, not like in the pictures, thankfully. Hamon is whitened nicely as you would with Hazuya stones, but none of that matters if i have to completely re-polish after sharpening myself. Very small layers of steel have fallen out sometime during production that you can catch with a finger nail, might not bode well for quality of forging. Tsuka seems great so far, tightly wrapped and nice feeling Ito. The over all shape from handle to real Yokote and super aggressive Kissaki is very nice. If the sword had none of these issues and horn koiguchi it would be worth price.”

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Posted 3 months ago

Hi Phillip, Thank you for the detailed review — you clearly have a trained eye, and we genuinely appreciate the level of feedback. A quick note we'd love to share for context: on the unsharpened area near the yokote, this is actually a known trade-off in traditional Japanese sword forging. When a swordsmith focuses on achieving a crisp yokote line and a well-defined kissaki geometry — arguably the most visually defining parts of a katana or wakizashi — the area around yokote can end up slightly less sharp as a result. It's not intentional, but it's a risk that comes with prioritizing the aesthetic of that area. We've seen the same characteristic on pieces sent to professional swordsmiths and content creators like Jesse Hu. That said, we understand it's not what everyone expects, and we're sorry it wasn't flagged more clearly for you up front. For the other points — the habaki movement, loose saya fit, and the small layer separations — we'd really love the chance to look at those with you. If you can, please reach out to our customer service with a few photos so we can review everything properly with our smiths at ShadowDancer. We always encourage customers to come to us first before doing any work on the sword themselves — once a piece has been sharpened or re-polished at home, it becomes much harder for us (and the smiths) to assess the original condition and determine what qualifies as a defect. Genuine defects are always replaced, and we'd much rather take care of it on our end than have you go through the trouble yourself. Thank you again, Phillip. We'd really like the chance to make this right.

Posted 3 months ago

How's the Blade?

How are the Handle and Fittings?

“folding blade not my favorite”

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Posted 1 year ago