Custom Your Own Katana

Custom Katana Buyers Guide

As one of the most reputable custom katana maker, RoM offers fully functional and aesthetic custom katana at affordable price. 

How to order

Choose Your Options: Select from our wide range of customization features simply by click on the option. Premium options may cost extra, which will be shown during selection.

Review Your Cart: Click "Add to Cart" to see a summary of your choices. Make sure everything is correct.

Checkout: Complete the checkout process. We will then start making your custom katana based on your selections.

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*Lead time for custom katana is 7-10 days*

*Final Price will be displayed in checkout page*

Standard Size info:

Overall Length: 103cm / 40.5 Inch
Blade Length: 72cm / 28.3 Inch (Full Tang Blade)
Handle Length: 27cm / 10.6 Inch Real Ray Skin Samegawa
Blade Thickness : 0.7cm / 0.27 Inch
*Size might be a bit different for different design*

What You Can Customize 

Edge Sharpness:

Sharp: This is our standard sharpness, sharp enough to cut paper.

Enhanced Sharpen: This option makes the edge even sharper, making it easier and smoother to cut paper. It costs an extra $30 and adds 3 days (10 days for colored blades) to the lead time as we manually sharpen the edge.

Razor Sharp: This is our sharpest sharpen, you will have a smooth cutting experience. It costs extra $40 and adds 5 days (12 days for colored blades) to the lead time as we manually sharpen the edge.

Unsharp: The blade has a dull edge, making it safe for practice.

*Note that colored blades are generally not as sharp as non-colored blades at each respective sharpness level

The Katana Blade: All our blades are full tang and functional. We offer 47+ blade options for you to choose from. You can select with bohi or without bohi (Some blades not supported) 

The Katana Scabbard (Saya): We have 119 different saya options available in various colors and styles.

The Katana Handguard (Tsuba): Choose from 134 different tsuba options, available in various colors and styles.

The Katana Blade Collar (Habaki): We offer 24 different habaki options in various colors and styles.

Handle Wrapping:

Hishigami Wrapping: A more sturdy and aesthetic handle wrapping using silk. Costs an extra $30 and adds 3-5 days to the lead time.

Standard Wrapping: Our standard wrapping is tight enough for most users, with materials in cotton or PU leather.

Samegawa:

Full Wrap Real Ray Skin: Uses an entire piece of real ray skin for better grip. Extra cost is $40.

Panel Real Ray Skin: Our standard panel real ray skin provides a tight grip for most users.

Blade Engraving:

You can engrave text or an image like a logo (sent via email) on your blade.

*We are adding new options regulary, remember to bookmark this page and come back once in a while. 

*If you need extra customization that is not included here, please contact hello@romanceofmen.com

Want to take the uniqueness of your custom katana to another level? Check out our advanced customization service:

Blade Material

Custom Blade Gallery, check here for a better view of the blade options.

The blade is the most important part for your custom katana.
 We have Carbon steel, Manganese Steel, Spring Steel,Pattern Steel & T10 Steel in different color and pattern for your selection.

Carbon (1060) & Manganese steel are the basic options, in compare, Carbon steel is a bit harder, Manganese steel is more flexible.


Spring steel is most flexible and will even bounce back even you bent the blade hard intentionally. That makes it the safest steel for heavy cutting and Tameshigiri because it’s less likely to break.


For cutting, especially for those new to katanas, we recommend the Unokubi zukuri spring steel blade. This blade is nimble and easy to control.

Pattern steel, also known as Damascus steel, is combination of different steel to create eye catching patterns on the blade, its also hard.


T10 Steel is hard with high carbon content. All T10 steel blade are clay tempered, with true hamon line.

Aesthetic Blade Series:

Katana’s aesthetic value outweighs it’s functional value in many cases. Refining the sword can take even longer than forging one. In this collection we offer hand polished blades with various color, texture and hamon line, you can use for your custom katana. 

Bo-Hi (Blood groove) 

Bo-Hi, also known as blood groove, fuller. What it does is to reduce the weight. 

Saya(Scabbard)

Premium Saya Gallery Please check here

Saya helps protect your blade from rusting and accident scratch or damage. it's also an integral part of the elegant katana design. We offer wide range of katana saya designs to fit your custom katana design. Including solid color, mixed color, auspicious arts or luxury lacquer design. 

Tsuba (hand guard) Fitting:

Tsuba protects your hand, balance the katana, and it’s probably the second most refined part of a katana. We offer symmetrical pattern, anime theme, and auspicious designs that will bring good luck to the custom katana owner. 

Habaki Options

The Habaki is a small accessory that helps secure the katana blade into the saya, as well as keep the tsuba in place. 

The Ito & Sageo

Ito is the wrapping on the handle, Sageo is the cord that is used to keep the scabbard on your belt. We offer cotton and PU leather material in various color options. 

Our standard Ito wrapping is tight and secure, with the diamonds appearing fairly even.

For an even better gripping experience, we offer Hishigami (菱紙) wrapping. This traditional method involves placing small pieces of paper inside the Ito, further reinforcing it and enhancing its appearance. Hishigami wrapping provides a tighter Ito and more evenly spaced diamonds. Due to its time-consuming nature, this option costs an additional $30 and requires an extra 3-5 days to complete.

Samegawa

We used real ray skin samegawa (panel, not full wrapped) for all our custom katana. Real ray skin provides better gripping experience, it's more expensive at our cost, but it's worth. Our standard samegawa provides sufficient grip for the Ito.

For enhanced grip and comfort, we also offer a full-wrap ray skin samegawa. This option is available for an additional $40.

Blade Engraving

You can engrave the name of an important person, a number, a short phrase, or anything that means a lot to you. We provide free Chinese or Japanese translation service. For graphic, please send by email. 

Custom Katanas from our customers

Advanced Custom Katana Service

Our advanced katana customization service allows you to go beyond standard options and make your katana exactly what you want it to be. One of our blacksmith will be dedicated to your custom order. Our advanced customization options include but not limited to the following:

Length: You could customize the blade length (Nagasa) or handle length (Tsuka) of your custom katana. Depends on your height, your Kenjutsu styles, it’s very common that you will want a longer or shorter katana that suits your need

Blade Material: Other than modern steel, we can also forge your katana with traditional steel like Kobuse steel, Honsanmai steel, shihozume steel etc.

Blade: You can have it sharp, extra sharp, or even reversed blade.

Curvature (Sori) : You could choose most common type Toori Sorri, or sakisori, or koshisori, or design your own. A katana with a little more curvature will cut smoother.

Tip (Kissaki) : You could choose different size style of kissaki, big (O-kissaki ), middle (Chu-kissaki) Or small (Ko-kissaki), or a short one (Ikubi Kissaki), curve one (Ikari Kissaki), or a straight one (Kamasu Kissaki)

Hamon line: Probably the most fascinating part of a katana. Our blade smiths can make majority types of hamon lines, from straight (Suguha) to Wavy (Midare) , as well as Gunome, notate etc.

Engraving: Other than name engraving, we can also engrave graphic designs on your katana blade. Auspicious patterns like dragon, demon are most popular choices.

Blood Groove (Bo-hi): Beside our standard bohi, you can also custom bo-hi for your blade, common types like double bohi, unokubi zukuri, shinogi zukuri are available.

Tsuba: We can fully customize the Tsuba for your katana, you can personalize the shape, the design. Material available is iron, copper or alloy.

Saya: We can fully customize the saya for you. You can print some graphic on it, or add craving designs, or lacquer art.  

If you are interested in a fully customized katana, please send your requirements to hello@romanceofmen.com, we will discuss the requirements with you, and give you the final quote. Depends on how complex the requirements are, we will need deposit to start making the sword, and in some cases, even an advance fee to finalize the quote. For example if you want to customize a katana but you don’t know how to create a 3D file, we need to hire someone to do that, so we can make an accurate quote based on the 3D design.

Customization at this level is very time consuming, a higher price and longer lead time (at least 1 month) is expected.

We can’t replicate fantasy swords at the moment, most of them are not designed for actual use, our focus is on functional swords only.

For more custom swords, please check:

Our Custom Ninjato

Our Custom Wakizashi

Our Custom Tanto