/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Before you buy, you should go to the PBS site (pbs.org) and look up the NOVA special on how katana are made. It is quite informative and seeing how it is made will keep you thinking that your cheap (3K) katana should have multiple types of steel in it (like a REAL katana) instead of a single type of steel.

The home shopping network had a katana for sale before and it was made with some elite sounding named steel. However, after so many uses, when striking something firm, the blade could snap off near the hilt. So, having a katana blade made from just one type of elite steel is not the way as the informative NOVA show will tell you.