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Well, I can´t say anything to that, but in my experience the wrapping needs time and a littlebit of strengh to do it tight. But Working Time is expensive, so this is maybe also an explaination for loose knots.

No. An Iaito is never sharp, it's alloys are soft. Only steel blades could be sharpend. Tozando also sells shinken which are sharp.

You can buy a katana in Germany if you are 18 years old. You are not allowed to have it publicly but there are no laws that say how sharp it can or can't be.

That’s a Iaito made of an aluminum/ zinc alloy.. no Tamahagane

I'm going maximum blade and handle length on mine, though their website has a suggested length based on height chart.

This! I saw that and was shocked he didnt hide his personal info

Well I practice MJER from the Esaka Line in Germany. But for the reviews my intend is to inform viewers who isn‘t necessarily used to know the Japanese expressions. This applies more to the Shinken as to the Iaitos but I try to be consistent.😉

@@talesoftheblades3289 Thank you for your reply. I apologize as after reading my post it came off as rude. That is my school as well.

Buy a wetstone and wetstone it on about a 15° angle

Hanwei is cheap Chinese shit.

No, actually you can’t get a better iaito from Hanwei. The Hanwei are nice enough and swing well but the Tozando custom are VERY high quality.

Lol how you compare Hanwei with real Iaito?????

Depends on the quality and extras. Something between 300€-600€ is thinkable, but the average good Iaito could be about 400-500€

Nope definitely plastic. In this Pricerange you only get plastic.

The Link is in the Video Description, maybe its available again.

I hadn‘t the chance to measure the metal consistence in the lab die to covid. Still planning to in Spring.

It is an Iaito made of Alu/zinc alloy. Producet in a diecasting process. Of curse ther is no real Hamon. the hamon is sandblasted.

Hahahahaaha. I've been getting on YariNoHanzo to get a US distributor. Thomas Ari sold me on them ages ago, but with the exchange rate and shipping, it makes them super expensive.

アドバイスをありがとう。もちろん、本物の日本刀がこの扱いを受けます。 しかし、この剣は比較的現代的な鋼で作られたイタリアのレプリカであり、それほど繊細ではありません。 この大まかな翻訳を許してください、私は他の人にあなたのアドバイスを与えるためにそれを再び英語で書きます。

This Commentator gives advice for handling a japanese Katana. Never touch the blade or speak to it due to spittle or acid of the fingerprints can lead to rust on the blade. After watching the blade you should apply a thin layer of oil to the blade. my Response: Thank you for the advice and of course would a real japanese blade spent that much of attention as mentioned. But YariNoHanzo is an italien based company and the blade are mostly made from modern steel, which is not that sensitive as the historical Katanas from japan. Also I cleaned and oiled it afterwards for storage the blade.

it depends on your countries tax regulations. In germany we have the Taxes on normal stuff of usage wich is 19% and then we had to get a fee for the costum people for handling the case. all in one I was about 80-120€ for importing a 600€ value.

@@talesoftheblades3289 Vielen Dank für die Antwort!! Was für ein Zufall, na dann weiß ich ja was auf mich zukommt! :)

Not sure if you're still interested but it's called a "kuro ishime" saya.

I doubt that any colorized same or painted kashira/Fuchi Gane will stand the Human sweat during serious training. It’s no matter of quality or manufactor, I‘ve seen a lot of Iaitos with these marks. The only thing to avoid this is to order Full silver decorations and white Same.

@@talesoftheblades3289 are silver plated options gonna do the same?

@@teofiloljubisavljevic7943 Don´t know. If it´s really silver it would be more durable as the regular painting, but it depends on the thickness of the silverlayer. But I would also buy silver coated decoration the next time.

it is a iaito training sword not ment for being used for cutting purely a training weapon they do have antique shinken a you can get a costom shinken made by them but would cost over 4k

Yeah, prices start at 7500 USD

Well as practioner it´s quite difficult to hear themself in relation to others, but I thing it´s quite good. Of course it´s depending on your technique. On the website of tozando you can change the currency of your cart. The have EUR, USD and Yen.

Not surprised too see you Karl because your into all thing Edged and Katana, his balde has held up nicely for it first year in the Dojo . I saw his first video and for a blunt practice sword that he paid $544.94 or so for and had a few customized handle and blade lengths request it's well made. 🦈🦈🦈

@@talesoftheblades3289 You have the invoice on the original video 📷📸📷

As to my understanding no, but Check their website to be shure. The Iaito I bought was never ment to be sharpend, because... it’s an Iaito😊

they are iaito not ment to be used as a weapon training only

in japan only katana that was make using the tradionall steel and method can be sharp or even made of steel and these cost like 20 k . those sword are practice sword make of aluminium

This is why I have timestamps in the Video Description 😉....

@@talesoftheblades3289 yes, I didn't see the time stamps until after I posted my comment - my apologies; most video posters are not as considerate as you

in my opinion the tsuka and saya is more important than the blade because if they are not good it wont feel right

Because people who train Iaito have patience and enjoy the gathering of knowledge?