About Kingfisher Kingfisher WoodWorks LLC of central Vermont is solely engaged in the manufacture of bokken, jo and other wooden martial art weapons. These products are intended to capture the essential elements of the most successful designs used by practitioners of the Japanese sword related martial arts including Aikido, Aikijutsu, Kendo, Jodo as well as selected weapons of the old sword schools (koryu). In 2002, Kingfisher produced the bokken used in Edward Zwick's "The Last Samurai". Pictures and more information on the process of making wooden weapons