Paul Chen
Paul Chen

Plsease help on script, based on Katana's swords.?
I ordered a Daito Musashi Paul Chen Katana. It says that the Edge: HRC 60, Mune: 40 and 1060 carbon steel blade? Where can i learn about the hardness of steel, carbon, the HRC, the Mune? Id be greatfull for any guides
HRC is the Rockwell Hardness scale.
The Edge is the blade edge itself, the Mune is the weighted back end of the sword. See this link: http://www.nihontocraft.com/nihonto_general_terms.html
So essentially it is saying the blade has a Rockwell Hardness of 60, and the back edge (non cutting edge) has a Hardness of 40.
HRC of 60 is the upper end of the hardness for steel, so that is good to go.
1060 is the AISI Steel grade of the blade, with the first two digits indicating the type of carbon steel, and the last two being the amount of carbon in it. Meaning in this example that .60% of the weight is carbon.
Essentially is looks to be a quality blade.
I included links that describes everything, hope it helps you out.
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Paul Chen Practical
Paul Chen Practical

Does anyone know the cheapest place online to get a Paul Chen Practical Katana?
Paul Chen Katana has a number of practice for only £ 130. They are fully functional swords with the bottom pieces. I want a nice full size Lightish black ... help someone? Salud!
To give you good advice, we really need to know what you plan to use the sword. The practice is a Paul Chen katana type of negotiation ground. Is much better than its median wall hook, but far from the quality that makes Chen Bugei Trading or Kotetsu made especially for Shinkendo Federation. Swords China, Chen is one of the best, but the line of practice is certainly one of his best. So ... What is the purpose of your purchase?
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Butterfly Swords
Butterfly Swords

Questions about the relevance of terms in the novel "The Hobbit"?
What are the relevance of the terms
Sackville-Bagginses, There and Back Again, King Under the Mountain, butterflies, Roac, Orcrist
in the novel "The Hobbit"? I know the last one is a sword, but what's significant about it? TY.
1. The Sackville-Bagginses are relatives of Bilbo's who covet the Hole at Bag End. When Bilbo returns he finds the S-Bs moving in.
2. "There and Back" is the title Bilbo chooses for his memoir.
3. Butterflies are part of the description of Bilbo's home, Bag-End in Hobbiton.
4. King Under the Mountain. The "mountain" is Lonely Mountain, so the King is the Dwarf ruler of Lonely Mountain. By the time of the story, Smaug had been there so long that the King Under the Mountain was looked upon as a legend.
5. Roac was the leader of the Great Ravens of the Mountain. He told Thorin about the death of Smaug.
6. Orcrist is one of the two great Elf-made swords found in the troll's trove. "Orcrist" means "Goblin Cleaver". The other great sword found was Glamdring, the "Foe Hammer". The Orcs called them "Biter" and "Beater", respectively.
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Forged Samurai
Forged Samurai

I want to make a katana/samurai sword!!!?
Ok I really want to make my own katana, I have a little knowledge on the forging of a sword.
I only really want to make an ok one, it doesn't have to be perfect.
I would like to know the materials and tools I need to buy & where to buy them (in Australia).
AND PLEASE WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE STEP BY STEP PROCESS WITH ALL THE RIGHT INFO!
THANKS!!!!!!!
(BTW please don't answer if you can't answer all the questions)
Steel is probablely the best material to make a sword and you may check at http://www.handmadesword.com for the design.
Steps and instructions on making a sword:
Sword making, historically, has been the work of specialized smiths or metalworkers called blade smiths or sword smiths. Modern armorers and sword smiths still ply their trade although to a more limited clientele. Their products are oriented toward collectors, those who pursue various traditional martial arts, redactors, and as props for film and theatre. Some modern amateur smiths also make swords and smaller blades for the technical challenge they present.
Sword fabrication breaks down into roughly three processes: forming, heat treating and finishing. Depending on many factors such as base materials, location and era these processes might merge, overlap or be dispensed with entirely.
Forming
Swords can be shaped by a variety of metalworking techniques. In some times and places one technique has been used exclusively, in others combinations have been applied. The primary techniques are forging and stock removal.
Stock removal shapes the sword from prepared stock that is larger in all dimensions than the finished sword by filing, grinding and cutting. While the technique has been available for centuries it was not widely used for making swords until the 19th or 20th century as it is wasteful of the raw material. Where iron and steel are plentiful this method is frequently used as it requires less skill and time. In places and times where iron and steel have been rare and valuable, stock removal has not been used except as part of the finishing process.
Forging uses heat to bring the material to a malleable state. The material is then hammered to shape, typically using hammer and anvil together with specialized set and fuller tools depending on the particular technique.
There are a variety of forging techniques for sword making and many variations upon those. The techniques employed in different places and times tend to affect the style of the resulting blades. Much of the development and selection of techniques has been driven by the type and availability of raw materials.
Broadly speaking, if metal supply is limited blades have tended to be smaller. Similarly when the supply of steel has been limited, techniques for building up the basic billet from which a sword would be forged by welding together iron and steel or different types and grades of steel were developed.
In most techniques the basic materials, generally iron and/or steel, are shaped into a bar or billet first. At this stage if several metals are to be used they will be combined by welding to form the billet. In some techniques, notably the traditional folded steel blades of Japan, the billet might be drawn, folded and welded back on itself creating layers of steel of different types. In others longer bars or rods of steel and iron might be welded together, edge to edge, to create the basic billet placing the softer iron inside with the steel at the core and edges.
Once the billet is created it is drawn out farther, generally tapering to the edge(s) and point. The technique of fullering might be used to create a ridge or ridges down the length of the blade. Whether single or multiple, the ridge's primary purpose is to give the blade greater structural strength relative to its mass.
The final step of forming, and one that affects both the finishing and the heat treatment is 'normalizing'. The blade would be carefully and evenly heated and then cooled slowly. The point of normalizing is to remove the stresses which may have built up within the body of the blade while it was being forged. During the forging process the blade might be heated and cooled differentially creating stress, some parts might be hammered more than others, some areas hammered enough to "work harden". If these stresses are left in the blade they could affect the finishing and when it came time to heat treat the blade, the hardening and tempering might not be as even. Potentially enough stress could be added that the blade would be weak in spots, weak enough that it could fail under enough strain.
Heat Treating
Heat treating, encompasses several processes including annealing, normalizing, hardening and tempering. Often the process is called "tempering" but actually that process refers to just one of the several processes.
The purpose of heat treating plain-carbon steel is to change the mechanical properties of steel, usually ductility, hardness, yield strength, and impact resistance. As with most strengthening techniques for steel, the modulus of elasticity is never affected. Steel has a higher solid solubility for carbon in the austenite phase, therefore all heat treatments, except spheroidizing and process annealing, start by heating to an austenitic phase. The rate at which the steel is cooled through the eutectoid reaction affects the rate at which carbon diffuses out of austenite. Generall
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