Dragon king Winter Sun katana review and cut testing

What's going on my youtube friends? We are looking at the dragon king winter sun katana before I won't go into this I want to say real quickly We're gonna be a redo video on the taisuke katana because I think there's a lot I left out and I was kind of busy in a rush and it deserves a Redo 2.0. So the winter sun goes for $3.99 on Cult of Athena. It's 5160 steel It's supposed to be a lot like the 60 Raptor kind of you know strength to the around 60 Rockwell However, I differ on this one, but we'll get into that later Starting out with the kashara the kashara on a dragon king I'm just long I'm seeing a very decline in concern with dragon kings and I Don't know. I said the last one would be my you know, last one I buy However, I needed a long katana on this one fitted and I got a good deal on this really good deal The kashara you guys are seeing standard Overly stained the Ito was extremely tight. It's Synthetic the samagawa on the Suka is very tiny so I stained it does not come that way and I polished out the Minuki To bring that out. I think it flows better. I think it stands out better and it makes the samagawa looks better to the Pegs I did notice that they are Opposing side so they got that, right As far as the Fuji it's another stand-in line run-of-the-mill kind of Fuji I mean you could get those on any katana. I don't know what's going on with Dragon King. I really don't There's no really hourglass shape to this handle. It's like 13 inches or something on there and It just does not feel traditional. It just feels kind of I Can't just blah it's just It feels okay, but it's balanced now before we moved on I want to say that I modified this katana as you could see now. There's the original looking to the super and One thing I noticed when working with real no hot toes real no hot toes Will always have balance and symmetry and this one didn't so as always I hate fake patinas Where they just like spray-painted black and they say it's a patina. That's not a patina So anyways, I stripped it off and I think it looks better like this It did this similar job to the Raptor And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you might want to check that Raptor review video out. It's pretty cool So a lot of natural patina built up and I think it looks better like that So this katana has a black and white theme to it. I polished the Habaki now This comes with Dragon King standard, you know calling card silver Habaki silver SEPA very beautiful But I put a nice lustrous shine on it. I'm not quickly done with working on this blade I have to fine-tune some polishing and other things with this blade. However Moving on the saya has horn around a quick Gucci has a matte finish When it came in it did have some rattling issues not too cool and I don't think the there's a good fit on around the Koi Gucci This is not the original Segio. The original Segio was very poor quality I mean I seen shoelaces have better quality than what they put on this katana So I put some of my Segio that I had in stock and I think it looks a lot better like this now We're gonna do a cut test and this is basically saying don't do this at home because I'm an idiot and you can injure yourself Doing a cut test. This is a dry to Tommy Mac. Keep that in mind So it's not your typical wet soaps Tommy man cutting You know, it's it's something I could explain So as I was cutting, you know, it seemed to be cutting decently especially for a dry to Tommy man it was You know being dry. I consider that okay smooth kind of cut and Again reason main reason why I got this you can see my pants falling off of me. I'm losing weight and stuff like that Getting rid of that winter fat is The length really the length and I'm trying to you know, I'm six foot two and I need something that Without shoes. So if I put shoes on I don't know how tall I am. But What's all guy? So 28, you know inches and that seems the 90% of the come town is available So Dragon King, you know, I knew I liked them. I knew that they had some issues with it, but we'll get to that later It as far as the the performance and the feel of it. It felt good. It really did Despite the weird kind of just flat stick kind of handle that it comes with it felt Proportional a little bit tip-heavy But that's you know Not too bad the only problem I had is when I was doing Horizontal cuts and That to me tells me There's issue with the alignment on the edge Not not really in the blade if you want to know what I mean watch my previous videos called rock paper Steel and it tells you what the professionals do when they're like paper testing to to tell if there's alignment issue because that edge of that blade gets so Thin and fine. It's easily to be off-centered and if it's all centered it could have effects Such as like, you know trying to cut to Tommy Matt, you know Horizontally and it's not cutting very well and Sure enough that was the issue But other than that, you know as I was cutting it cut great. It really did As long as I wasn't doing that one Horizontal cut every other cut was very efficient. Now again, keep in mind. This is dry to Tommy Matt. Oh As far as you know Taking the katana out and it's linked It's actually I should say the katana came just a little bit longer than what they advertised That could be a bad thing for some people As for me, it's a plus, you know Luckily it worked out for me. But however people that are practitioners, you know If a sensei says, you know, I want you to get this that could be a big problem. So Reviewing everything, you know, I took it apart to examine the Tang and everything the fittings were tight just you know there was some really sigh a rattle going on and I had to fix that and I had to realign the edge a little bit which is You know not too big of a deal for me, but it could be for other people Another thing I want to say is while I was polishing a steel I always because this comes with a satin finish and I noticed that again same thing as the Dragon King autumn leaf it The Rockwell was not at this 60 range. This is very soft steel I'm not sure what's going on with Dragon King or if it's just my luck But with this katana and the autumn leaf, it seems to be a reoccurring pattern crappy Samagawa crappy Segio You know no effort to sign the Tangs really nicely like they used to and they're tempering and is Is really off and I'm glad it was soft because it could have heated up and got Fragile where chipping now here you see me doing a stress test. There is a very large Wood dowel in there and I do this to all my katanas and don't do this Because it's very dangerous, but I want to know if I could trust these katanas if they're battle ready I want to know I could trust them So there's a very large peg in there and you could see me taking a swat at it And I'm gonna take a gander there and it did job And I will show you here in a second It's sliced through the peg and the dry to Tommy Matt So, you know, there was no edge rolling on the blade or anything like that the blade was true so As far as stress testing on hard targets Soft targets it does. Well, is it worth the price you see this katana here? I bought this from Sino swords Custom made custom picked for me. It came with all the bit trout, you know trimmings and all that I got it for 300 bucks, which is Less than what I got this Dragon King for However, on the other hand, you know Sino swords it takes about a couple months to get your order in Other than that, you know, I found this winter Sun katana to be from Dragon King is something like the in the range of the Han way practical and I think you're getting If you're gonna order a practical are you thinking about getting a practical and you're a taller guy I recommend this one I think you get a little bit more the practical price for Han way is around the same price range however on this one, I think you know, you kind of get You know like the suba and the real st. Ray skin and all that stuff. I think it's a prettier katana Now someone asked me about like the why is it called winter Sun stuff like that because there's no Sun in there I polished off the snowflake because it just didn't balanced out That's because Japanese snow monkeys. They like to sunbathe it they find Japan's very volcanic and they find like little You know Jacuzzi areas where the water is hot and they get in there and they they sunbathe So that's kind of why the reason why it's called winter Sun. So Other than that she came back to the sword, you know what for the price It's it's it's worth it. It cut great. It's durable. I just wish the Rockwell was more accurate Other than that, you know, yeah One out of ten I give it an eight So you guys got any other questions go ahead and drop me a comment and again I hope you guys enjoyed the vid thought it was helpful Again I would be redoing the Taisuke review as it was just in a rush and it was a mess so My apologies for that and there's a little more info that's going on with the katana that I want to share I think it's important that I do. So other than that, I still haven't forgot about the hydro dip I actually have a tub ready and a sire ready for it So you will be seeing that video very shortly here. So that being said as always my friends keep it sharp Keep it oiled and I'll catch you in the next vid