CHENESS SGC SERIES TSUKIKAGE KATANA
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Uploaded by WARKHAAN on Apr 25, 2008
SGC SERIES-GOZA CUTTER
These specialized blades were built based upon a custom designed sword created expressly for dojo cutting exercises. After more than half a year in planning and preparation, we have finally completed our SGC series for production... effectively bringing down the price of this sword from a $5,000 to $7,000 custom built range down to less than 1/10th of that cost.
These swords are broader and thinner than a standard katana. With a weight distribution optimized for cutting exercises. The entry angle of the cutting edge is effectively minimized by the geometry and is only made feasible with the Cheness Spring Steel, which aids in maintaining the edge durability.
The Tsukikage Katana shares the same blade as our Yamakami Katana. Both swords uses the Cheness SGC blade design and is especially made for goza (tatami omote) cutting exercises.
The photos below shows the overall appearance of the blade in and out of the saya. This is a significantly broader sword with a narrower entry angle in its cutting edge.
Due to the nature of the geometry, the blade exhibits a hint of a pattern of how the quench affected different parts of the blade differently than the normal katana even though this is a through hardened blade.
The Tsukikage uses a black cotton ito wrapping with a blackened steel tsuba and an image of rabbits under a crescent moon. The steel used on this blade is the through hardened version of the Cheness 9260 Spring Steel.
The handle of this blade is slightly bigger than that of a standard katana. This is to compensate for the broader blade and nakago within the handle.
The concept of this new design is based off of a $5,000 custom wakizashi blade made especially for cutting exercises for some high ranking iaito sensei.
It took more than half a year in planning, preparation, re-casting, machining of new molds to bring this blade into a production basis and effectively dropping the price down to less than a tenth of what it would have, otherwise, cost to produce a similar blade in the past.
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