We kind of work together with the prop master, the costume designer, the set decorator, and the production designer. A lot of times I'll have an input into what we make. Zorro's sword, case in ...

Yet several swords seized at UK customs and held at the British Museum were revealed, using a scanning technique called ...

which he has shaped so it will make a snug fit into the channel and forges the two metals together. Both types of tamahagane are now exactly where they need to be: the hard steel forms the sword's ...