Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0695
Summer Lotus Katana
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage borne
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
A piece of the house stock, 40.8″ as stated, fitted with 11 1/2".
About this piece
Summer Lotus Katana is a sword carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of swords. It measures 40.8in overall as stated by the forge, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is 5160. Carbon and tool steels take a finer edge and take it faster, and they will rust if left wet. Wipe the blade dry and keep a film of oil on it and it will outlast you.
Fittings and furniture: 11 1/2". The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Long arms are judged by carry and by intent rather than by a blade ceiling in most provinces. Transport this piece cased, and read your own state's law before you carry it in public.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“Hold it level and it will tell you how long a man's arm truly is.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 40.8 inches
- Form
- sword
- Steel
- 5160
- Fittings
- 11 1/2"
$864.99
The Muster is met — the house bears the carriage on this vow.
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for the line — reach, leverage, and a cut delivered from distance.
The lineage of its steel — 5160
High-carbon steel. The old, honest choice. It takes a keener edge than stainless and holds it under work, but it will rust if it is left wet. Oil it, and it will outlive you.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The line fighter
One who wants length in the hand: re-enactors, cutters, collectors of the martial pattern, and anyone who means to hang honest steel where a wall-hanger used to be.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. Summer Lotus Katana is 40.8″ of 5160, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 104 hertz — low and long, true. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
Long steel is not a tool that grew into a weapon. It was a weapon first and never pretended otherwise. It cannot butcher well, it cannot clear brush well, it cannot split wood at all. It has exactly one competence, and centuries of men paid for the privilege of holding it anyway.
02The Making
Carbon steel — 5160. It will take an edge finer than any stainless and hold it through work that would roll a lesser blade. It will also rust if you look at it wrong. Carbon is a bargain: the house gives you the better edge and you give it your attention. Oil it, dry it, and it will outlive you.
03The Carry
At 40.8 inches this is a two-hand or full-arm proposition. It does not ride on a belt through a doorway. It is mounted, cased, or carried openly, and carrying it openly is a statement in every jurisdiction on earth. Know your law before it leaves the wall.
04The Reckoning
Every blade in this castle outlives the argument that bought it. Buy accordingly.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Summer Lotus Katana
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it is slow off the hip. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang something quick enough to answer while it is still coming back.
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The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The press
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Kindred Steel
All of The Long Blades →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- How to Clean a Sword: Step by Step in 10 MinutesTen minutes of care is the difference between an heirloom and a rusted disappointment.
- All Types of Swords: Names, Shapes and Which to BuyThe difference between a sword that looks fearsome and a sword you will still be proud of in ten years.
- Types of Swords: Every Major Pattern, and Which One to BuyKatana, longsword, rapier, sabre, claymore — what separates them, what each is honestly for, and which belongs in your hands.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- The Oakeshott typologyHow swords are actually classified, type by type.
- Tangs and fittingsThe hidden steel that decides whether a hilt holds.
- Geometry, balance and harmonicsWhy two blades of the same weight feel nothing alike in the hand.
- Buying honestlyThe questions that separate a wall-hanger from an heirloom.
Summer Lotus Katana
$864.99