What I have come to realize, is that it takes a very skilled hand to be able to sharpen and properly form the geometry of a katana's edge. http://swordforum.com/swords/nihonto/americanized.html This site has a picture towards the middle which shows proper katana geometry and different edge geometries as well. As elegant as the edge might be, I'd say it is among the most difficult edges to refine by hand. I may post a video later on my sharpening and polishing a katana, but it really is physically, ...
Updated 02-02-2011 at 07:06 PM by Jakeonthekob