Samurai Series 三つ葉葵 Tokugawa Edition RECCE Rifle SOT Custom Shop build · right and left side · drag to pan, scroll to zoom

CONFIGURATION SHOWN: a 16″ polished TiN 4150 chromoly barrel in 1:7 twist on a mid-length gas system with a gold plated gas block finished with a Wilson Combat Accu-Tac three-prong flash hider, an M-LOK handguard on gold plated rail fastening screws, a gold plated ejection port cover carrying the Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon and the caliber marking, a high polish gold TiN bolt carrier group, a Strike Industries extended latch charging handle, a red menpō mask, gold plated YHM extended takedown pins, a Velocity Triggers Classic AR curved trigger, a heavy gold plated Geissele Automatics Ambi Posi-Snap safety selector, and a grip with Brazilian cherry panels carrying a maki gold-foil Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon imported from Japan, sealed with a Valspar protective finish over gold plated grip screws, on a Reptilia RECC·E™ Carbine stock. Shown with a Magpul PMAG laser engraved with the same Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon. Right side shown — 将軍 (shōgun) on the magwell, the MDL. SHOWDOWN · CAL. MULTI rollmark, the gold plated ejection port cover and the 徳川 Tokugawa handguard marking.

CONFIGURATION SHOWN: a 16″ polished TiN 4150 chromoly barrel in 1:7 twist on a mid-length gas system with a gold plated gas block finished with a Wilson Combat Accu-Tac three-prong flash hider, an M-LOK handguard on gold plated rail fastening screws, a gold plated ejection port cover carrying the Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon and the caliber marking, a high polish gold TiN bolt carrier group, a Strike Industries extended latch charging handle, a red menpō mask, gold plated YHM extended takedown pins, a Velocity Triggers Classic AR curved trigger, a heavy gold plated Geissele Automatics Ambi Posi-Snap safety selector, and a grip with Brazilian cherry panels carrying a maki gold-foil Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon imported from Japan, sealed with a Valspar protective finish over gold plated grip screws, on a Reptilia RECC·E™ Carbine stock. Shown with a Magpul PMAG laser engraved with the same Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon. Left side shown — 侍 (samurai) on the magwell, the Sharps Bros. rollmark with the serial masked, the Tokugawa Edition handguard mark and the Strike Industries extended latch charging handle.

* Sharps Bros. manufactures the receiver; Second of Ten is the builder of record. The receiver is manufactured, rollmarked and serialised by Sharps Bros. of Eugene, Oregon as a 7075-T6 billet SHOWDOWN, and Second of Ten claims none of that engineering. Samurai Series and Tokugawa Edition name the complete Second of Ten rifle built on it — the barrel, the upper, the bolt carrier group, the controls, the furniture and every applied finish are Second of Ten’s selection and work. The rifle is the whole assembly; the serialised part is the lower.

RECCE and RECC·E™ are two different things on this page. RECCE, plain, is Second of Ten’s own configuration name. RECC·E™, with the interpunct, is Reptilia’s trademark for the stock fitted here. Second of Ten’s designation describes a build and does not lean on Reptilia’s mark.

The menpō mask is finished by hand, so no two are identical. The face, the gilt scrollwork and the white teeth are applied and blended by hand over the Cerakote® base, and the red is graded rather than flat, running from near black in the recesses to a bright lacquer red on the cheekbone. Highlight placement and the exact break of the burnished panels will differ from the rifle photographed here. That is the nature of the work, not a variance to be corrected.

The crest runs the length of the rifle. The Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon — three hollyhock leaves in a ring — is inlaid in maki gold foil on the grip panels, engraved on the gold plated ejection port cover beside the caliber marking, and laser engraved into the Magpul PMAG. It is the same crest at three scales by three different methods — foil laid into wood, engraving through plating, laser into polymer — and it is what carries the edition rather than any one component.

The gold through the handguard is the barrel, not the rail. The mid-length barrel is polished TiN — titanium nitride, a hard ceramic coating that happens to be gold — so it shows through every M-LOK slot along the handguard. What reads as a gold-striped rail in the photographs is the barrel behind a black handguard, and the rail screws holding that handguard are separately gold plated.

The trigger is a drop-in cassette, and the lower is marked CAL. MULTI. Velocity publish limits for the Classic AR: not for use with a 9mm conversion or an open bolt face, not guaranteed to fit a Radical Firearms lower, and not compatible with the Super Safety. This receiver is rollmarked CAL. MULTI, so if a pistol-calibre upper is ever hung on it, the trigger does not carry over.

The two sides do not repeat each other. 侍 (samurai) is carried on the left of the magwell and 将軍 (shōgun) on the right. Read one side and you have only half the piece — which is the reason this page shows both.

The grip crest is a foil inlay, and it wants a light touch. The Maru ni Mitsuba Aoi mon is applied in maki gold foil on Brazilian cherry and sealed under a Valspar protective finish. It is a finish, not an engraving: wipe it down, and keep aggressive solvents, bore cleaner and abrasive pads off the wood. A grip panel can be refinished; a stripped foil cannot be put back.

Nothing in these frames is retouched except the serial. The serial number is masked on the left-side frame. The manufacturer and address rollmarks are left exactly as struck, and no mark, blemish or tool witness has been removed.

Photography © Second of Ten LLC. Cerakote, Geissele Automatics, M-LOK, Magpul, Reptilia, Sharps Bros., Strike Industries, Valspar, Velocity Precision Engineering, Wilson Combat and YHM marks are the property of their owners; their appearance indicates that Second of Ten incorporates the component, not sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement. Photography shows the item as built; the mask is hand finished and shipped configuration may differ.