Rust Clean

This is Sageo made from chemical fibre and made in Kakucho Style. Length 350 cm for a Tachi. You can choose from following colors : Black, Dark Brown, Brown, Gold, Navy Blue, Blue. Just choose the color you want when placing your order.

This is silk cord for wrapping japanese tsuka. 8mm wrapping is appropriate for Wakizashis. Please choose the color and write your choice into the remark box. Black, Red Black, Dark Brown, Brown, Gold Brown, Dark Blue, Blue, Dark green, Green, Purple, White, Ivory, Gray Dark Blue, Grayish green, Orange. This item stands for 1 meter of tsuka ito. For the length just put this article several times into your shopping cart. If you want to order 7 meters of this tsuka ito then just put the item 7 times into your shopping card. Of course you will get the tsuka ito in one piece if you order more than 1m.

This is Sageo made from chemical fibre and made in Kakucho Style. Length 220 cm for a longsword.You can choose from following colors :Black, Dark Brown, Brown, Gold, Navy Blue, Blue, Dark green, Green, Purple, White, Ivory, Orange, Wine.Just choose the color you want when placing your order.

Rider Menuki, couple, dark.

Imori Menuki, couple, dark.

The maintainance kit has everything in it which you need for the must of care for your handmade sword. Comes with oil and powder. Oil is used to prevent the rust of the sword. Oil makes a film of the oil between the sword body and the air, and it prevents the oxidization of the sword body. Oil dries in about some time. Therefore, reprint it in the new oil once in a month. The thing which made a whetstone powder-shaped is being packed into the Uchiko. White powder appears from the Uchiko when a sword body is struck with the Uchiko. There are two use purposes. The Uchiko removes the old oil which sticks to the sword body. Furthermore, the Uchiko beautifies the surface of the sword. Nuguigami: The Nuguigami is not just regular paper, it is high quality thick japanese paper for cleaning swords. It is used for wiping out old oil and wiping out the Uchiko. The Mekuginuki is used to remove the Mekugi of the sword. The Mekuginuki can remove the Mekugi with the sharp part. In order to use the Mekuginuki for removing the Mekugi, the hammerhead part can be removed from the rest of the Mekuginuki. How to take care for your sword: How to take care of the sword after an Iaido practices or Tameshigiri will be explained with this topic. Take care of the sword after the practices always. If the care for the sword is neglected, a sword rusts in the sweat of the hand. Face an edge toward the top, and pull out a sword slowly from the sheath. Then, be careful not to damage a sheath. Hold the sword pulled out with your left hand. Then, remove old oil and dust from the sword with the Nuguigami. Put a Nuguigami on the Mune of the sword when wiping the sword, and wipe the sword toward the top from the bottom. Pat a sword body with the Uchiko. Powder equally on the both sides of the sword body. Then, wipe the white powder with the new Nuguigami which is different from the paper used some time ago. Repeat this handle, and remove the blurs of the oil completely. Apply new oil to the sword body, and put away a sword to the sheath. Put the oiling paper on the Mune of the sword when oiling the sword, and oil the sword toward the top from the bottom. Don't oil a sword in quantity very much. Oil equally the both sides of the sword body. If the care for the sword is finished, put a sword in the sword bag, and keep it. Keep a sword in the place where it dries in the shade. How to take care of the sword of this topic isn't perfect. Therefore, remove the hilt once in three months, and care for the tang (Nakago) and so on.The mekuginuki is not included in this cleaning set!