For all you lovers of knives and other stabby things there is a great documentary on a family that makes samurai swords on bbc iplayer,very interesting.

Handmade in Japan, Series 1: 1. Samurai Sword: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08v8gxl via @bbciplayer

Truly Fascinating, no automation, no power tools, handling chunks of white hot metal, whilst wearing what looks like cotton pyjamas and flip flops. H+S would have had kittens.
No doubt made to order, wonder what they go for ??

wonder what they go for ??

Said up to 20k

Yeah my H&S head was in a tiz watching that

Spent a good hour afterwards reading up on swordsmithing

My great uncle had a wakisashi that he’d nicked off someone in the war, it didn’t look like much but it cut like a razor even though it hadn’t been sharpened since the 1940s. Wonder what happened to it, I don’t remember it being in his estate when he died.

Bin dun – here

Was good though.

Great film – 2 months just to sharpen one sword!

They sell maybe 3 in a good year

Rest of the time they make kitchen knives…..
Bet they are damn good ones though ……

Loved the film