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38" rattan katana with a 8.5" grip.
31" rattan wakasashi with a 6.5" grip
Edit: $100 for the set, including shipping

Both blades:
are carved from 1.5" rattan,
are slightly curved (the katana more than the wakasashi),
have a distal taper from 1.5" down to 1.25" (but no linear taper),
have modified Clang tsubas (with a steel tab instead of a clamp),
have taped blades, thrusting tips and finished handles (although the wrapping is white sandpaper and red shoelaces, not rayskin and silk).

I cannot find a decent kashira that I like, so the ends are finished with hockey tape.

Here's an older and sharper picture I have lying around of the tsubas.

A bit better photos:

Photos removed

The price includes shipping in the US. I still haven't found a decent kashira that I like.

Photos updated above.

Nice.

Where did you get your Tsuba's at? I want some good hand guards.

Clang. They normally come with big ugly clamps on them, but he made me a pair special.

http://clang.adkinssoftware.com/hilt%20 ... %2001.html

and edited (reduced) price in opening post.

I'm headed to the post office tomorrow if anybody wants these.

Since $150 and $120 didn't work, lets try $100 including U.S. shipping. I really want to get these out of here before Christmas.

i've got these pimped out to a few groups that i know have japanese persona's hope they sell for you, they look very nice

dibs, PM sent.

Sigh, what is a viking going to do with Japanese swords?

edit: payment sent

thats precisely why i did not jump on these, i am glad they are going now

If they dont go let me know. I have new full gauntlets i can try on these.

Hmm sorry I missed these.

Thomas,

I told you that you could take your time sending them, but noooo, you had to ship them
right away so that I received them today.

Thank you. As you may have gathered, the swords arrived today. They look very nice.
I'll need to break them in soon. Happy happy joy joy. Maybe I should break out all that
old samurai armour that I got from my friend....

Thanks,

Thorvald (at present a confused viking)

I did take my time sending them.

... nearly a whole day.