Manufacturer: Paul Chen
Name: folded steel orchid sword
Model: PC-1207
Blade Length: 29"
Sword Edge: Sharpened
Blade Material: High carbon, hand forged, folded steel
Blade Edge Hardness: RC60
Blade Spine Hardness: RC40
Sword overall Length: 41"
Sword extras: Cleaning Kit
Retail: $1673.37
Our Price: $1422.37 
Name: folded steel orchid wakizashi
Model: PC-1208
Blade Length: 19 3/4"
Blade Edge: Sharpened
Blade Material: High carbon, hand forged, folded steel
Blade Edge Hardness: RC60
Blade Spine Hardness: RC40
Overall Length: 26 1/2"
Retail: $1098.83
Our Price: $933.99
Name: folded steel orchid tanto
Model: PC-1209
Blade Length: 7 1/2"
Blade Edge: Sharpened
Blade Material: High carbon, hand forged, folded steel
Blade Edge Hardness: RC60
Blade Spine Hardness: RC40
Overall Length: 12 1/4"
Retail: $838.49
Our Price: $712.72
All prices in Canadian dollars
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Created by master smiths at the Hanwei forge of Paul Chen, the Orchid Katana is a superb authentic piece. The blades are made from imported Swiss steel and even though they are highly polished, the nearly 1000 layers ( a product of the forge folding process ) are quite visible in the blade as shown in the photo above. Please note that this photo was taken of a sword in our Regina stock room
Like most of the Hanwei swords, the Orchid sword is forged in the maru-gitae style, using the traditional clay process dating from 700 AD, producing a hard cutting edge 60 RC while maintaining the body/back/spine of the blade at 40 RC hardness for resilience and shock absorption. The blade's temper line (o-midari, meaning "turbulent sea") is one of the most beautiful and important features of the Japanese sword. Many "temper lines" are simply etched or ground into a blade and have no functional value but a true temper line indicates that the edge has been independently hardened in the traditional manner.
The iron tsuba (guard) is a finely-rendered silver inlaid Orchid with brass leaves. The tsuka (grip) is genuine top-grade ray skin-covered wood, attached securely to the nakago (tang) with bamboo pegs. The tsuka-ito (grip wrapping) is Japanese premium cotton cord wrapped very tightly in the traditional pattern to display the ray skin and the menuki.
Orchid folded blade katana includes a traditional blue lacquer finished wood saya (scabbard) with a buffalo horn kojori (end cap), koi-guchi (throat cap) and kuri-gata (wrapping cord eyelet). A kenye (fine-cloth bag) and a traditional maintenance kit are included. The maintenance kit contains blade oil, rice papers, oiling cloth, a powder ball for blade polishing and a brass awl and hammer.
The matching wakizashi PC-1208 and tanto PC-1209 are made using the same methods used for the Orchid sword.
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