Hunter Katana - Photo Gallery

The subdued green silk ito and green striped lacquered saya compliment the fittings on the Hunter L6 Katana.

Blackened tsuba with golden accents.

The Hunter Katana

Bainite is a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock absorption characteristics.

Bainite is billets of L-6 tool steel (a very tough high-carbon low-alloy steel) as a starting point.

The Hunter is a very desirable and functional piece.

Hanwei has now mastered this difficult process of forging bainite.

The beautiful Hunter Katana by Paul Chen/Hanwei featuring an L6/Bainite blade.

Hunter Katana L6 / Bainite Blade

Golden accents on the kashira of the Hunter Katana.

Buffalo horn is featured as the kurikata with brass accents.

Green ito and golden menuki really stand out against the white same.

The raptor tsuba stalking it's nest prey.

The two toned green sageo really highlights the blue and green contrasting saya.

If you have been looking for an L6 Bainite blade, look no further than the Hanwei Hunter Katana.

Bainite is a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock absorption characteristics.

The Hunter Katana is built on the Hanwei L6/Bainite blade in the Shinogi Zukuri style, and featuring superb koshirae, the Hunter is a very desirable and functional piece.

Blackened tsuba with golden highlights featuring the raptor and its next prey.

It has been known as an exemplary Katana blade component for a number of years, but its use has been restricted to a few top-class master smiths, due to the difficulties involved in performing the exacting heat treatment procedures necessary for the production of a Bainite blade body in combination with the very hard Martensite Yakiba (edge section) required for Katana blades.