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The Paul Chen Katana

The Paul Chen Katana is absolutely fast and crafted from nothing but the best high quality grade materials and made using traditional japanese forging. The overall balance between the performance & beauty of the sword is really extraordinary, which makes any Paul Chen Katana an excellent deal when you look at its cheaper price. Just up until Paul Chen, who is also known as Chen Chao-Po went back to his sword making roots in China, the market in the States had become over saturated with imitation Japanese stainless steel swords.

The Paul Chen Practical Katana tends to make use of differentially heat treated katanas whose high quality is certainly becoming appealing to collectors. Remember the fact that a geniune recently crafted Japanese katana created by a Japanese smith in Japan sells in the usa for approximately eight thousand dollars. Customized stock steel swords are going to be somewhere around the two thousand dollar mark. Paul Chen’s Shinto Katana made in China makes swords more affordable for the beginning collector with suggested prices of just under five hundred dollars.

Having a blade length of just over 28 inches as well as weighing just over 2 lbs, the Paul Chen Katana is, until now, the closest imitation of a Japanese sword in its price bracket. The blade on the Katana is clay differentially heat treated and clay treated using very old Japanese procedures to produce a hard edge and a softer spine and body to absorb impact and shock. The blade on the sword is finished with temper lines that are very detailed, a feature most other swords around the exact same proce would replace with acid etching. Not only does the acid etching leave a very unfinished look on these cheaper swords, but it also causes structural damage to the blade over time. Every sword includes a special temper line, caused by the heat treatment & clay treatment procedure, which in turn significantly boosts the polished, finished look of the actual sword and lets the sword soak up much more. The ten and a half inch handle on the sword has a real ray skin & cotton-wrap. The actual cross piece is highly adorned with a dragon design.

Thinking of its selling price, the Paul Chen Katana is a superb purchase, as well as the most precise reproduction of a true Japanese sword available for under 500 dollars. Many iaito practice katanas are available for the same price range, but keep in mind that they are constructed of a soft zinc-aluminum alloy that was never intended for anything more than kata movement practice.

Any Japanese sword can break or bend if you use it incorrectly. No katanas were made to be indestructable. The construction of the blade & physics will always limit the blade. With Japanese martial artists what they try and do is avoid blade to blade contact, as this does a lot of damage to the blades. The level to which a blade is able to chip the instant a good sharp edge strikes against one other edge would likely make a katana ineffective throughout a combat. The procedure of fighting styles the samurai applied aimed to neutralize their enemy with a one strike. The Paul Chen katana is a much more beautiful and authentic weapon that is in no danger of breakage when used properly.

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