Chad Nichols Katana

paf

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Hi, I am new to this forum it my first thread. I see a chad Nichols Katana sword. I know he made damascus steel and other metalurgie mix but I don't know he make Knife and katana. Did someone know about their knife or sword, or have one of them and can tell if they are good? Is it only design by him? Did he made his own heat treatment, what is the rc of his blade? Thank you

Paf
 
do you have a link or anything?

without any info whatsoever, my uninformed guess is that it's a maker using a big hunk of Nichols forge welded blade stock

anyone's guess at this point though
 
Thank you for your response, Chad Nichols have answer me. He have made (or mabe just design I don't know if he have a cnc) this sword in a limited edition of 14 (for this lenght) in collaboration with nottingham tactical. The blade have been heat treathed at peter heat treathment at a 56 rc. The tang is screwed glued. It all the information that I got.
Her the link for the sword
https://www.arizonacustomknives.com/products/1019703/
I see that he made a collaboration for a knife too
https://www.monkeyedge.com/Chad-Nichols-Vigilante-Survival-Knife-MEFP-p/cnd0001-mw933.htm
 
1/4" stock? wow, 3.5 pounds seems a lot to me for a katana

but yeah, otherwise 3v is great but honestly max thickness for a katana is 3/16"
the weight should be under 3 or around 2.5 pounds

also... that is 100% straight, it's not a katana, not at all... perhaps a Chokutō
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokutō
 
1/4" stock? wow, 3.5 pounds seems a lot to me for a katana

but yeah, otherwise 3v is great but honestly max thickness for a katana is 3/16"
the weight should be under 3 or around 2.5 pounds

also... that is 100% straight, it's not a katana, not at all... perhaps a Chokutō
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokutō
I agree that the shape and profile in the linked piece on Arizona customs is non-traditional to say the least and that the weight is very heavy if correct.
Regarding the max thickness, you mention 3/16" (0.187").
In a link giving a lot of different sword parameters for various styles (http://www.toyamaryu.org/SwordMeasurements.htm), you can see thicknesses near the habaki that exceed 0.3" in some cases.
However, these are accompanied by significant distal taper and much different grind profiles resulting in much lighter overall weight as you say.
I don't want to bash the sword at Arizona Custom too much, but I really don't see the logic in leaving 3V so soft at 56 HRC.
 
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