| Custom KC Bingo Katana Project |
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| I am still in the early planning stages of this project, but I have high hopes for its success. It will be based around a 29" Kris Cutlery Bingo Mihara bare blade. The Blade is KC's elite katana that has a Bo-Hi (groove) to lighten the rather long blade. Below is a few scans and pictures of the parts I have so far. Silk tsukaito is on the way right now from japan. The color will be Navy Blue. |
| The fairly well shaped Kissaki (tip) shows pretty good definition over KC's standard katana. |
| The Habaki came with the blade. It is made of white bronze. I polished it up some and it is actually a very shiny silver color. This gave me the idea to go with a silver and black theme of fittings. |
| This Gorgeous Crane tsuba is what inspired me to do this prject from the start. It is made my Paul chen, and I scanned it here in its wooden storage box it came with to store it until mounting. very nice set. I will soon be purchasing silver crane menuki from Lohman to match this tsuba. |
| This Fuchi and Kashira set was a lucky find. Cecil Quirno of Kris Cutlery just happen to have some. They are actually Cicada Forge/ Rick Barrett pieces, but he sold them to me for a fair price. I think they will compliment the blacked tsuba nicely. |