Dojo Pro 1060 Steel Tanto #3

This tanto is first off beautiful and sleek. Elegant is another good way of describing it. It has a good blade from what I could gather, I have not put it through rigorous testing but it seems to be a good 1060 carbon steel. The issues I ran into were mostly in the tsuka, the fit is not great and in order to compensate it seems it was glued in. I broke the bond of the glue and found the cavity carved out of the handle is too wide and makes it difficult to slot the tang properly. Once you manage to align the peg holes and insert the mekugi it then “feels” solid. ( I also had to make some paper shims to fill the gap between the components) My concern is, the tang is only held in alignment because of the mekugi, without the friction of a tighter fitting handle this may affect the performance and durability of this tanto. These issues may not be in all the tanto produced. Though that may also explain the price drop.

Great craftsmanship. Only wish it had a yokote and hamon.

I love my new tanto. It's very sharp and straight. I haven't cut with it yet but I'm sure it won't disappoint. I love the design as well.

Just as like on the photos. Saya could have been made a little better. I think they rushed to make this saya so the texture of the sageo are inprinted to the paint of the saya as it looks like the paint did not cured enough. But for the price, you really cannot complain. Other than the paint of Saya, the tanto I received was a pretty good for the price.