Katana Hand Guard Half 2 Monocor

The guard is the part of a Japanese sword most people can picture without knowing its name: the disc between the wrapped grip and the blade, marking where the hand stops and the weapon begins. This file covers one half of that guard from the Monocor katana build, drawn as a component for makers putting a sword together from separate sections rather than as an ornament in its own right. That makes it useful to anyone replacing a piece that has been dropped once too often, rescaling a katana to suit their own reach, or working through a costume where the sword has to come apart to travel. It belongs to the long line of samurai silhouettes that historical reenactment, anime and film have each borrowed in turn, and it is the fittings rather than the blade that usually decide which of those a finished prop looks like it came from.