Making katana, polishing of the blade 5/5

[jaxv94]

for a moment i thought you cut yourself and was smearing blood on the katana lolz :/

[blindviper]

Whats in the small bottle after the hot water?

[TheSamuraiWorkshop]

@blindviper

He uses kanahada nugui (iron oxide with clove oil) to darken the ji on the blade. I believe the brown paste is akako nugui which is used to color the haze of the polish. The polishing method used is traditional sashikomi.

[clorsa]

great job, I have a question, so that the hot water in the leaf? and where I get some stones for polishing of these xD jajajaja just kidding