Running & Martial Arts Gear

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. Until Paul Chen went back to his sword making beginnings in China, the mass market in America had been over saturated with stainless steel imitiation Japanese type swords.

The Paul Chen Practical Katana tends to make use of differentially heat treated katanas whose high quality is certainly becoming appealing to collectors. Keep in mind that an authentic newly made Japanese katana made by a Japanese smith in Japan sells in the United States for around eight thousand dollars. Custom made stock steel swords will probably cost you around 2000 dollars. 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.

With a blade length of just over twenty eight inches and weighing just over two pounds, the Paul Chen Katana is, till today, the closest reproduction of a Japanese sword in its price range. 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 sword’s blade is finished with detailed temper lines, a quality most blades of the same price would replace with acid etching into the sword. Not only does the inferior acid etching leave a really incomplete look on these kinds of cheaper swords, but it also causes structural harm to the blade with time. Just about every sword comes with a completely unique temper line, the result of the clay and heat treatment procedures, which dramatically enhances the polished, finished look of the sword and enables the sword to absorb more. The ten and a half inch handle sports real ray skin and a cotton-wrap. The guard is richly decorated with a dragon motif.

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. Numerous iaito training katanas are obtainable for around the same price range, however remember that they’re made of a soft zinc-aluminum metal which was never meant for doing anything more than kata movement practice.

Nearly all types of Japanese swords bend or break if they are used the wrong way. No katanas were ever crafted to be indestructable. The actual laws of physics as well as the making of the actual blade will usually restrict the blade. Japanaese martial artists avoid blade to blade contact, as this does a hell of a lot of damage to the blades on the swords. The extent to which a blade can chip when an edge strikes against another edge would make a katana useless during a battle. The procedure of fighting styles the samurai applied aimed to neutralize their enemy with a one strike. When used properly the Paul Chen katana is a lot more authentic and beautiful and is in no real danger of breakage.

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