Back to Basics…
July 17th, 2009 | 
Author: It’s been a while since i’ve posted anything about a simple sword, so when I ran across this one, it said to me: “Phyre… It is time.”
Death Talon Ryu Ninja Katana
This is the Death Talon Katana. Really nothing fancy. All understated, a few nice simple styling cues. Otherwise all business. And that’s what I like about it.
The blade is your regular Japanese Katana fare, long, curved, single edged, with a rather unusually smooth curve to the kissaki. AND, unlike many of the other abominations I’ve blogged about in the past, this one has a nice, simple fuller. No pointless cutouts, no cross drilling, no slots, just a nice, well designed blade.
The habaki, and tsuba are both finished in flat black, the small tsuba sporting a single, simple, upward curving black talon. My kind of simplicity in design. The tsuka is equally simply finished, with a simple black cord wrap. Interestingly, the grip does not carry the traditional Japanese tsuka-maki, or grip cross wrapping, opting instead for a simple spiral cord wrap. But it fits the simplicity of the swords design well. The pommel of the sword is capped with an equally flat black kashira.
Death Talon Ryu Ninja Katana - Sword Detail
The top and the bottom of the Satin black saya are also simply decorated with an open delta, and the saya itself is attached to a Blade style back carry strap system. Pretty cool. Even the name, while a bit ambitious, is not actually misleading either. A ninja, might, in fact use a Katana like this.
All in all, a simple, no muss, no fuss, no nonsense design.
Me llikey.
Death Talon Ryu Ninja Katana – [True Swords]
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Category: Swords | 
Tags: Black, Dark, death, Katana, Ninja, Ninjaken, Ninjato, Ryu, Simple, Sword, Talon | 
4 Comments »
the only fault i have is on a functional side, the tsuba or lack of one. if there were 2 or 3 more spikes (talons) on each side i must say this would be my practice weapon XD like the blade, especially the O-Kissaki
hmm i just noticed another non desirable for me, the saya. id preffer a traditional one tbh XD but hey im an odd urban sasquatch whadda i know XD
Good points! Yes the tsuba is really on the small side. But I like your idea of adding more talons on all for sides. Actually maybe on all four diagonals instead… I think that would look very cool…
And So far as the saya, I could definitely do without the weird end cap on it, but besides that, I kind of like the design.
it kinda has that “MADE IN SPARTA!” look to it
LOL yes it does… It’s the Whole Spartan Japanese Persian sword thing all over again… LOL