In this video we will make a Viking wootz sword with an amazing pattern on the blade. We smelted this wootz ingot in our ...
Forty years -- 40 years for one sword, 40 years to master one single technique. Half a lifetime for one katana. That's the time Shimpei Kawachi's father took to learn the method of "utsuri," which ...
In March of last year, during dredging work in the Korte Linschoten River in the Dutch province of Utrecht, a medieval sword dated between 1050 and 1150 was found in an exceptional state of ...