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Miniature Folding Pocket Katana (gallery)

I made an I'ble on how to make your own, here.

Please rate and vote! I also have a blog, here!!

A few of these are the katana I made in the 'ible linked above.The one with the longer blade and kanji is version 2.0.

9 comments

Jan 30, 2012. 1:01 PMThaAWESOMEducttapeguy says:

is there a locking mechanism?

Nov 26, 2011. 6:23 PMblack hole says:

What's the blade made from?

Nov 27, 2011. 9:02 AM

nepheron (author) says:

Have you seen the 'ible for this? In it, I make the blade from an annealed spring, then hardened and tempered it.
I'm pretty sure there is a link in the desc.

Nov 27, 2011. 9:26 PMblack hole says:

Oh, okay. I missed that. I saw the link to your blog and kinda got mixed up.

Sep 29, 2011. 6:38 PMmagiccowy says:

Thought this was going to be really lame, until the picture loaded.
Nice job and thanks for the inspiration

Sep 29, 2011. 7:47 PM

nepheron (author) says:

Thanks, I'm glad you're inspired! If you make something cool, don't forget to post a photo :) I have a few pictures of katana model 2.0 on my how-to blog

Sep 30, 2011. 5:17 AMmagiccowy says:

Yea checked them out too, shame about YouTube commenters huh, made a few planters out of glass bottles using a burning string technique that wasn't nearly as clean as yours