Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Traditionally made katana!

When the samurai were around there main for of weaponry was the katana. Katana's today are not made the same as they used to be much anymore. In modern times katana's are often made from factories and are sometimes made by hand but you got to pay a lot more for that. When a katana was made the way when the samurai used them its called the "traditional way" because that was the original way of creating one. Now days there are very few true sword forging (swordsmithing) masters left in the world and it really does take a master to create a katana the right way. These days people will generally make katanas from high carbon steel, but when it comes to the masters in japan they have to create their own kind of steel. this
video right here explains in better detail then i could tell so take a look at this documentary from the history channel

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