The katana is largely considered by most experts to be the finest sword ever made.  They were handmade swords equipped by some of the most feared warriors in Japanese history, the Samurai.  So well made were these weapons that the samurai themselves developed a virtual cult around it.  The katana became the physical representation of the samurai’s soul, to be used in the service of his master as he required until the pain of death consumed him.  They were made involving a sacred process that constituting bringing together two kinds of steel; first a hard steel for strength and durability, and then a soft steel for sharpness and flexibility.  Then they followed that with numerous and repeated folds, each fold, in essence, becoming a micro-blade.  Over time these folds would often rise in the thousands for lower quality katana to the range of millions for the most expensive swords.  It is from this that a katana gets its legendary sharpness.  Legend has it that newly completed katana were tested by slicing through a pile of convicts, presumably already dead.  If the weapon didn’t pass through at least four, it was considered inferior and thus scrapped.  Such weapons would then be bestowed by samurai lords to individual samurai, who would keep them in their families for generations, handing them down from father to son.  You can possess a Handmade Samurai Katana – Black-40.5 Inches of your own.  Forged using the sacred Japanese Maru technique, this beautiful sword is a real weapon, and as sharp as any other katana.  The hilt is made from real rayskin and wrapped in silk, and comes complete with a proper and exquisite black saya to keep the weapon safe from corrosion and dust.  An absolute must that any sword aficionado.