Shinwa Sword Cleaning Kit

I use this to maintain/practice cleaning my first katana . It does the job and keeps your blade shiny and sleek! More rice paper would be nice . Other than that affordable and essential !

This Kit is very important to have if you own a Sword. It works on any Sword and any metal, I used it on my Shinwa Damascus Odachi and my Carbon steel Katana sword and it did a great job of cleaning and shining it up! I also like the whole process, you really have a chance to bond with you sword. If you look up the Japanese Sword Cleaning and maintenance ritual, you will learn that it was a big deal to the Japanese Warrior. This Kit will give you a chance to get the full experience while keeping your Sword in Battle ready condition. It's a Must Have, and a Great price from BudK!

The only problem I have with this kit is that when it arrived the uchiko was kind of spilling and the choji oil looked a little unprofessional but overall good the hammer and awl were of good quality and so was the oil the uchiko was starting too lose powder but not horribly the rice paper was not great but it's alright you can just as easily buy it at a store but it was high quality rice paper I do recommend this if you want everything to be higher quality but replacements can be common in most houses like mineral oil/is basically choji oil but it is still good

kit as described except no plastic container for the oiled rag. It did come with a cloth which was not in the description. It did make my sword shinny like new!!

While the kit itself is very useful and has made my swords look brand new, you could easily look up how to clean a sword online to find a cheap way with the same effect. However, the materials that are listed are in the kit (besides a list of instructions, which would have been useful) and work like they should.

It came with only one piece of rice paper, no plastic container and one cloth that I did not know how i could clean the cloth so I used it to apply oil and threw it away, everything else was there. I recommend buying a kit like this just for the awl and hammer and uchiko (powder ball). Just use a rag to wipe off old oil and powder and use a paper towel to wipe on regular mineral oil ( choji oil is 99% mineral oil and 1% clove for fragrance) so yeah just grab mineral oil at a local store.
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