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Originally Posted by Barbarian
VERY nice pic, Piter.
Mr. Harsey, I believe the tanto blades made by you and the late Mr Bob Lum are less angular, and a far superior design to most of the generic tantos one normally sees everywhere. Exquisite piece of work.
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Barbarian,
Thanks.
I don't know if I've written this here before and I'm not going to try searching either but here it is:
The word "tanto" in Japanese swords refers to an edged weapon with a blade length that converted from Japan measurement to United States Customary Units had a blade length of between 6 and 12 inches.
There is no definition of a particular blade shape or point type and I have seen and handled many Japanese tantos from modern to 700 years before present.
None of these had the abrupt chisel point that has become popular.