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Samurai Swords and The Swordsmiths

Back in the early times of sword manufacture,hammering of the steel, it would create
the production of super strong high-gradeinternally something comparable to layers.
carbon steel wasn't even a vague dream. ButTake a book and fold it parallel to the
we know, as history has taught us, that swordspine, roll it up and you'll see what a
makers of ancient times still managed toswords structure inside would look like, and
produce  superb  quality,  strong  weapons.also see how strength increases. This gave
the sword a superior strength. As in much of
So just how was this possible all thoseJapanese culture, like Martial Arts for
hundreds of years ago? How did these ancientexample, many advancements and ways are
swordmakers manage to craft weapons of suchattributed to emulating natures ways and by
high-quality? What was the secret to thisobserving  natures  patterns.
skill of taking poor quality ore and turning
it into the finest quality steel blades?It is sometimes thought by some that the idea
Well, it seems the process of Japanesefor this 'folding' to create the 'rings
samurai swords making was an highly advancedlayers' inside the samurai sword came about
artform. It wasn't as simple as casting aby looking at the cross section of the inside
sword shape with molten steel and sharpeningof a tree trunk and observing the way these
an edge. What the swords makers would do wasalmost layer like rings of wood gave the tree
to hammer the heated and softened steel flat,the strength to stand upto natures forces
and fold it over and hammer it flat again,without breaking very easily, but merely
and repeat this process over and over, maybebending with the wind. This is thought by
by  upto  as  much  as  thirty  times.some to be the idea which gave birth to the
folded steel concept of Japans samurai
This was a very long and labor-intensiveswords.
process, but in the constant folding and



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