The most important step in forging a katana, the sunobe (2)

Great video, again. Thanks!

Hi, thank you very much for these informational videos, I want to forge a katana myself, but I don't have any tools. Can you tell me if I want to traditionally forge a katana with minimum tools, what are the things I need? And also, can I buy the tsuka, tsuba, saya, and everything else except blade and forge a blade myself, will they fit? I'm not sure if it'll be easy to forge a katana of exact same dimensions of those pre made parts.

What were the starting dimensions on the initial bar

Would you recommend a coal forge or gas set up for someone starting out?

So just curious about why you don't use the clay coating to curve the blade in the quench as traditionally done?

How length of rectangular bar is this? And thickness and wide

Can you do a video on making a katana via stock removal rather than forging?

Bonjour je tenais à vous remercier vivement pour ce tel partage extraordinaire de votre savoir faire. Je débute et c'est une source de savoir inestimable. Ma grande question organisez vous un blog ou des stages de formations? merci encore j'espère vous revoir sur votre chaîne qui a déjà fait des heureux sur les groupes d'entraide de Facebook...à très bientôt j'espère

Why do you apply water to the anvil? I've never seen that before.

You god dang treasure!!! Thanks man