Huawei $400 Katana: Quick Review...

This is a Huawei sword that is on loan from sword friend Scott. This one is called the High Quality Nami Koshirae Hishi-Gami Suguha Hamon Japanese Sword... Its a mouthful.. Sword friend Scott augmented a bit with a sageo that is not from Huawei. He also asked them for a more narrow handle and a coper habaki. This information was presented in his video.

You can find more information about their products here - http://www.huaweiswords.com/
This model looks like this one - http://www.huaweiswords.com/index.php...

Sword friend Scott’s review is here -    • Huawei Shinogi Zukuri Suguha Hamon Katana ...  

Details from Huawei site:
Fully functional live blade Shinken Katana "real sword"
Hand Forged,Clay tempered, T10, Water Quenched,DH,Hand polished full length
The edge hardness and resilient blade
Tameshigiri Polish,Visible Natural Prominent Hamon
Shinogi Zukuri with Geometric Yokote
Blacked Cupronickel wave theme tsuba, fuchi,kasshira, kojiri,menuki
Handmade Brass Habaki
Full tang,Very tightly alternate & HISHI-GAMI TSUKAMAKI
Bamboo one Mekugi Peg
Authentic blacked same tsuka
Dark red saya
Buffalo Horn Koiguchi ,Kurikata
Can be disassembled for maintanence
Comes with black cotton thick sword bag

Specs:
Handle/Tsuka Length: 10.25”
Blade/Nagasa Length: 27.75” (without habaki)
Sori: .60”
Moto-haba: 1.23”
Saki-haba: .85”
Motokasane: .291”
Sakikasane: .18”
Weight: 2lb 4.8oz
POB: 5.75” from tsuba
Nakago: 9.5”
Nakago below munemachi: 1.03” x.29”
Nakago .25” from end: .70” x .16
MSRP: $399

Weapon Dynamics Info:
Mass 2lb 4.8oz - 1043.26g
Hilt Extremity 0
Grip Reference 10.25” - 26.035cm
Blade Extremity 39.25” - 99.695cm
Center of Gravity 16.25” - 41.275cm
Lever Reference .5” - 1.27cm
Hilt Node 9.25” - 23.495cm
Blade Node 30.5” - 77.47cm
Action Point 9”- 22.86cm
Pivot Point 27.75” - 70.48cm
Action Point 2”- 5.08cm
Pivot point 21.5” - 54.61cm

https://subcaelo.net/ensis/dynamics-c...

(thoughts on sword relative to $400 price)
The good:
Flat planes
Very sharp edge
Tight ito
Easy to dissasemble
Well made Mikugi
Excellent nakago
Distal taper through the blade and nakago (missed mentioning that in the review)
Well made habaki
No saya rattle

The bad:
Little paint overspray on the kurikata (missed mentioning that in the review)
The yakote is not crisp (though it is nice that it even has an attempt at one)
Slight ledge on the fuchi

Other notes:
The fittings look like copies from some sold at Yamato. Assuming they are clear to resell them, they look pretty nice. Not original but still very nice.

This blade has what looks like koshi sori. The blade is closer to a cross between koshi and tori but the shape of the tsuka push it to koshi (imo). It was not a problem to move and I liked it.

I could not get a swishing sound while doing iaido, maybe it is just me.. Probably, but know it is a quiet one.



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