High Quality Carbon Steel Swords

The design of northstars hand forged custom swords is inspired by history and fantasy combined they are indeed works of art.

High quality carbon steel swords. For a blade that keeps a very sharp edge and is easy to resharpen 1095 high carbon steel is very desirable. Made with 1095 steel. A fair price for 1045 carbon steel swords is typically under us 100. These are the high quality swords designed to be used for combat practice re enactments and stage use.

1060 carbon steel is a great compromise between hardness edge holding ability and pliability strength and many swords famous for their durability such as those by ronin katana cold steel and darksword armory are made from 1060 carbon steel. The walking cane sword is constructed by forging and folding 1060 carbon steel together 13 times. Generally 1095 is the standard of high carbon steel in most swords and katana blades. Functional swords battle ready hand forged carbon steel swords.

Using the fold forging method was to tranaform iron in to high quality steel and make the blade more strong. Functional swords or battle ready swords will generally have tempered high carbon steel blades unless otherwise stated in the description. Each heirloom quality ryumon sword features a high carbon steel blade often 1095 high carbon steel that has been forged to impressively mimic the appearance of the finest damascus steel. Functional swords are made of high carbon steel and are made from the finest quality materials.

High carbon damascus steel swords for sale. Like damascus steel swords each ryumon blade has its own unique forging patterns so that each sword truly is a one of a kind design. It offers the highest carbon content and yields the sharpest edge but it can also be fragile if not crafted by a master swordmaker. The differences are in the amount of carbon steel that is added to the other alloys.

This process is carried out until there are up 8192 layers creating beautiful grain like patterns in the steel. With a chrome content of 12 00 some call it a semi stainless because of the lack of free chromium in solution even though it is defined by asm and ansi as stainless which contains at least 11 5 by weight of. D2 is a high carbon high chromium die steel and is the highest carbon alloy tool and die steel typically used in knife making. The 1045 carbon steel has a carbon content of 0 45 great for taking abuse.

Functional swords are authentic swords and have properly proportioned tangs to withstand the rigors and historical accuracy of re enactment. Northstar forge is proud to use only the highest quality high carbon steel when crafting our swords. Carbon steel is made up of 3 types low medium and high. Katanas longswords viking swords gladius.