Tanto - The Japanese Fighting Knife
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- Опубликовано: 6 дек 2015
- The tanto -- or Japanese self-defense knife -- comes in all shapes and sizes. In this video American blade smith Walter Sorrells gives an overview of this blade type while showing several blades he has recently forged.
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you're not only AMAZING at making all kind of knives and small swords, you're also pretty good at editing, and inform us about good ways to sharpen a knife or just choose the right steel for the project. Thanks for that, man!
Thank you for taking the time of teaching how you forge all the pieces you manufacture, Since I was a kid i've loved all types of japanese blades fom a collectors point of view (all of my knives, sowrds and folding knives just hang on my walls) With all the videos you upload you show how well you know your job and , and all the knowledge you have. Sorry for my english but i wanted to show you my appreciation in your own language since i'm from Spain i'm doing my best so forgive my mistakes
+UnCivilEngineerIRL Yes it is indeed, thank you for your kind words, I do my best with foreign languages
+katana24 Your English is a lot better than my Spanish ;-))))
Your knives and swords are beautiful, it inspires me to try and make my own, if I had the money I would purchase one of your works in a heart beat! #goodguywalter
sir you are a master at your craft they are some truly beautiful blades
Just cracked my Tanto in the quench my brother-in-law and I made
Beautiful Blades!!!
Fantastic job sir!
Very, very impressive! Thank you very much.
Excellent explanation.
excellent Mr. Walter
I hope my next tanto looks half as good as one of those. Actually I'll be overjoyed if it doesn't crack when quenched, which is what happened to the last two...
I've been studying tanto a lot recently and while there are lots of different blade styles, but they do seem to mostly have a fairly constant width to length ratio. To my eye at least.
Hey guys i have i question. I want to make a tanto. Ive already made a few knives. I want to make it stock removal. What steel can i best use?
How do you make your clay or where do you buy it? Could you maybe do a video of how you make the clay and how you apply it before hardening?
Thanks
It's too late now to say "sori"
lol
Win the internet
what means sori?
I was sure the train noises at the beginning were on my end, haha. I've got a track near where I live and it was strange hearing it at this time of day.
What is the best configuration for slashing and thrusting?
Very nice video, lotsa info. Thanks
Is there a forum to ask questions? Need help with new to me antique blade.
Music at the end? Thank you
a point also to be noted is that in the first few hundred years in the battlefield days of japan, the tanto, like daggers in europe were essential to samurai wakizashi on the other hand were not typically carried onto the field, it ewas simply the sword, whether tachi or uchigatana, and tanto.. the dagger was essential for samurai in particular since a lot of combat between armoured fighters very often will turn into a contest of grappling and dagger fighting to pierce the gaps between, and areas not covered by the armour (we also see an almost identical tradition of armoured dagger fighting in the knightly combat manuals in europe
What would you call a really short blade one meant to be concealed , but smaller then your typical tanto
Beautiful examples!!!
Benar,,,pedang ini sangat jelek, tetapi mata bilahnya mengatakan bahwa pedang pertama di dunia.
Di antara perpedangan,,,hanya pedang ini yg bisa jadi perbincangan di beberapa negara. Kuno......
if u dont mind me asking but what is the book at 5:19 ?
The Art of the Japanese Sword: The Craft of Swordmaking and its Appreciation
you are well spoken,,,,thank you.
may i ask,,? i love the japan contemporary style,,, dha,,,or berma type,,,wood handle and reedtype cord , ,,copper,,at handle
i love the feeling of this type,,,,,reason is very light in hand contoured to body and also used two at a time,,
wave pattern stamped , ,,,
i have three but one is perfect in every way for me 6ft 218lbs man
,,,, can you tell me about other type swords,,,or short sword types that are super light and strong?
please visalia ca
omg you are amazing i have done my first knife just today☺
cool
Can i see it ?
Have you ever tried your hand at a karambit
Where is the Seppuku vid?
Hey Walter i would really see you make a folding knife their hardly any videos on how to make them .
Is that a train I hear in the background?
So were these considered the common person fighting knife?
any chance you could make a karambit??
+john smith Why does everybody want to see somebody make a karambit? lol I swear, I always see this same distinct request for youtube makers with 1000s of subs. If you do a quick search on youtube you'll find a few guys who have made them. I honestly just don't understand the fascination with them myself. I know in a certain martial art they have their place, but imho, for the "most part" they just seem kind of "gimmicky", no offense. :)
john smith Apparently I struck a nerve! Honestly wasn't my intent. Take care
Pretty fearsome tantos....saw some commercials where a tanto could go through plywood....even a car door...
hell yeah
often overlooked item the old tanto, great video :D
I kind of like to carry a smaller version of that on my person if I'm out anywhere on foot, (guns aren't a common thing here) never had to use it, touch wood, never will, I just feel better having it, kind of a "just in case" thing, which I guess is why they were made to begin with.
So, I guess you'd know a lot more about this than I would, a lot of factory knives call the angled chisel tip a "tanto tip", but was that really a common thing? or did they tend to have the more rounded point you showed?
I guess it could change over time like any other fashion.
Also, given that carrying around something the size of a Bowie knife is likely to get you strange looks in the modern era, how small do you think a blade could be and still be considered a tanto?
What makes a tanto a tanto for that matter?
+Some Guy The "tanto point" was not commonly used. That term was just applied by one of the big cutlery companies to that particular grind. Spiderco, maybe? I forget.
Walter Sorrells ah, so a modern marketing thing then, thanks for clearing that up. :D
As far as i know a tanto blade is around 8 to 12 inches long
I guess you guys haver really bargain on that recording studio.... WOOO WOOO!
Back in the 90s one could buy some pretty good tanto knives.....not cheap if you wanted a nice one....but one day just disappeared of the market never to come back....
I would have appreciated if you stated what type of steel it is. Is it san mai, warikomi or monosteel? Also why you chose the hamon you did as well! What Rockwell hardness is it at too? Will you answer these questions? I practice MJER and shinkendo, so I may need a new shinken soon. Lastly do you create shinken to customer specs? Either way thanks for keeping the way alive!
from his other vids I'm pretty sure he uses two high carbon steels, one higher and one lower, and folds them to get a suttle wavy pattern in them, or at least that's how he made them in his previous videos
+Herb Toker He sometimes uses steel he's made himself also. As for does he create a piece to customer specs, contact him and see your options.
+Herb Toker These three were all made from folded modern steel -- 1095 and 1050 or 1050 and W2. As some other guys mentioned, I do a wide variety of different kinds including ones made from tamahagane and monosteel. You can check my website for info on custom blades. Thanks!
How can I make a tsuki without power tools
すごい!!!
Islandblacksmith makes some even smaller blades in the traditional Japanese fashion. They look like you just cut the tip off of a tanto!
+twinmill97 Yeah, he's probably my second favourite knifemaker, incredibly talented guy. You obviously know already but for anyone else reading this he's got a lot of interesting detail on his website on how his knives are made.
I will post a picture in my little picture slot of a proper tanto
the short blade is also used for harakiri.
+franzb69 Noice
Primarly intended to use on restricted spaces like a tea house, grappling or even on a very messy battlefield. Unlike the people believe, Samurai was a very expensive warrior to be trained and dai myo class doesn't incentive suicides among them.
But yes, just in case of seppuku, you use a tanto or wakizashi and your buddy take position over you with your katana, to cut your head off and save your honor if you can't make it. But these swords are not built with this intent.
I also was given to the impression that smaller tantos got used as a general utility knife when the need arose.
+Josh Rowlison more often a kiridashi
+Cameron Reid I'll take your word for it, I'm a neophyte and a hobbyist at best. Would a Kiridashi be a utility knife or just another martial blade more commonly used as a tool?
Please, make a video about how to make a hamon in the traditional way. Thanks.
+Tiago Batista I have a video about that that's available on my web site www.waltersorrellsblades.com.
+Walter Sorrells I believe there's one too many Ls there, Walt. Take care :)
+Walter Sorrells Thanks for the answer. Your work is amazing !
+Eternal Knives You are correct, sir!
+Walter Sorrells Do you by any chance make Wing Chun Bart Cham Dao knives?
I've always thought that the tanto tip origins from a broken longer blade.
+LandShark 7.62 My understanding has been that the (true) tanto tip more readily pierces armor. It seems that a few blades he shows (based on my understanding) are more accurately drop points (or at best, what I would call pseudo-tantos), not true tanto styles which have a much steeper angle. I concede that this may be base on a western interpretation as he states tanto styles (in Japanese culture) are based on length. So, I guess iit depends on whether you are talking about modern knives and tip shapes or you are referring to classical Japanese styles.
I have experimented with tanto tipped knives (a tip that is steeply angled to the belly) in the past, punching them through steel drums vs various other point styles and have found that the tantos greatly out perform other point types for penetration and have never since questioned the theory that they are made to more readily puncture armor. Nearly all my defensive knives have since been of the tanto style (for the last 15 years now)
I'm curious how this elegant blade profile became associated with the contemporary mass produced tacticool "tanto" shape (acute point, no transition to straight edge). I personally can't stand that shape, seems like it was drawn by a twelve year old or to expedite mass production, not for any practical advantage for the user.
I might be late, but I imagine they get associated with tacticool stuff is because of pointy/edgy looks, since the real tanto(Tanto isn't actually the blade shape, but rather just short sword from the Heian Era) kinda looks like a long kitchen knife, which the americans thought would be boring, they "spice" it up and call it a japanese thing when it clearly is not.
HYAKKIMARU'S BLADE
thank you oniichan
The train by his shop always waits for him to start talking lol. Doesn't diminish the quality of the video's though.
Did i hear a train horn at the start of your video as you are showing the blades?
Pretty good pronunciation. I hate it when people pronounce it as “tan-toe”
正宗≦貞宗
刀身を触るとはナイフ文化
some1 films near trains :P
Use chidori on tanto.....🙂🙃🙂🙃
短刀でリンゴやイモは剥かない
Hey Walter, i was wondering if you could shed some light on the how to/pros and cons to heat treating for a "rainbow" color steal.
3lusive what do you mean with rainbow heat treating?
A tanto does not curve on the edge and a wakasashi is mor comly 13 to 18 inches and at that point is considerd a large dagger or a short shord here in this viseo u se a japanese take on a midwest drop point
japanese katana knife have a good advance , as katana was beautiful knife in the world . many man japan army behead 500,000 chinese head in the WW2. it is true , some day beheading 2,000 chinese head cut off in nanking 30 days massacre.
Go and look atthe mossy oak tanto youl see a tru tanto
power tymer I do hope you're joking...
That's the most american tacticool shit I've ever read
@@rayminazzi2065 I hope too, but I doubt they are considering their icon is just that ugly ass knife
you look like doey from Malcolm in the middle. but from the future
Tanto is not a knife.
The quality is completely different.
It's not the same.
刀はナイフではない
I use to think what is this it's not tanto then I did som self knife education and found out Japanese and amarican tanto this I think is japnese tanto