We DESTROYED a $3000 traditionally made KATANA to see how tough it really is!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Is a $3000 traditionally made katana as strong as the legends say? In this video we put it to the test against some spring steel swords!
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Small humble request here, when asking the new guy his opinion on something, give him a bit more time to voice his thoughts and develop an opinion (So here, let him handle both swords individually and take a few swings with each of them without context about the blades, rather than simply holding both at the same time). I feel a great data point is being missed in how someone without experience with a sword would analyze things, before we delve into the actuality of the matter and deliver proper education. I feel this also may make him a more relatable character on the channel, especially to those who are new to the sword community, and for the more experienced, as a sort of nostalgic reminder of where we all started.
What happened to the tool steel katana, did you guys not get to keep that?
These stress tests were awesome to watch. Painful, but awesome lol. Love the content, always happy to watch guys. Ty.
Absolutely love the channel, been a fan for years now, I just want to say with no disrespect that the hoodies look like Minnie Mouse.
Do you have any plans to do anything with the Thaitsuki's remnants, Shad? I wouldn't mind picking up its fittings if they'd be for sale.
I was imagining numbers flying up every time you hit it with the $3,000 sword.
-$200
-$50
-$125
bigger numbers for the critical hits of course
I shuddered at the sound of the sword hitting the metal at the start. I know swords are made to take hits but still.
I'm pretty sure its market valuation price went immediately from $3000 to $100 on the very first hit on the wood.
. orangefreesounds mario coin sound
It would be funny to add that into a short clip.
@@ShiningDarknes It's not even remotely wall-hanger tier, you can do zero cutting with a wallhanger, they're just sword-shaped metal sticks. They put it to abuse a sword should never see unless you're proving a point like they are. Even if you sharpened a wallhanger it in all likelyhood wouldn't even survive regular use.
Shad: *destroys $3000 katana
Matthew Jensen: “First time?”
Hello sword friend!
Well he never bought it. So no loss
Matthew is awesome. I think one reason he breaks all the swords sent to him for review is so he stays neutral
Somewhere in the Spirit World a Japanese Swordsmith just shuddered in horror.
Nah he turned into a demon and will now haunt them forever
Written and directed by Hideo Kojima.
Written and directed by Hideo Kojima.
they literally said the sword was sent to them for this specific task
@@jimmyju76, I know but like nails on a chalkboard, certain things provoke a visceral reaction.
"This is a 3000 dollar sword." "It was."😅
Matthew Jensen: “First time?”
Well, he swung it as hard as he could, but it didn't cut open a portal in time and space so I can slap my ancestors who left the farm.
Props to Taitsuki for sending you swords to test.
It's a ballsy and crediting move of any sword manufacturer.
I’ve had Japanese sword masters tell me uchi katanas broke quite frequently and just became a wakasashi. There’s even techniques for when a sword breaks in some schools.
The people that depended on their weapons for survival knew these weapons and their strengths and weaknesses intimately as we in the modern day should as enthusiasts.
Every sword has its strengths and weaknesses and I’m grateful for channels like this one and others that are willing to test these swords and show objectively. It doesn’t stop me from enjoying a traditionally made sword but does show its more fragile. That’s something especially important to those new to swords because let’s be honest people can be idiots with new toys if they don’t know better.
Keep ‘em coming Shad!
Here here! Katanas really do have a major cool factor going for them that european swords don't quite have. That's not to say that european swords aren't cool though.
I've heard the same about naginata. When a sword broke, it became a naginata or similar.
@@KaijuBiologist yeah you could easily have tied the broken blade to a stick if you were in a desperate state
If you google brigandine shad pops up lmao
ok that's funny 🤣
It does 😂, there’s a brigantine for sale with a photo of Shad as the preview photo lol 😂😂😂
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Well that Honshu ended rightly...
Thank you SO MUCH for all the work you've put in over the years to testing katanas! I have a friend who's a staunch supporter of the mythological cutting prowess and durability of katanas, after video he only has one remaining argument.
"BuT yOu ArEn'T a MaStEr KaTaNa WiElDer, A tRue MaSter CoulD cUt ThRoUgH tHat BoaRd FirST trY!"
Shad, to prove him wrong you must go on a 3 year training journey in the outback using nothing but your katana to survive. Someone has to do it, for science 🤷♂
when he comes back, does he wear a crocodile skin hat, save his wife from thugs by saying "That's not a knife, this is a knife" and brandish the katana?
@@lucasspriggs3878 Only one way to find out...
I actually saw something similar on an episode of Highlander where Duncan was living in the Canadian Wilderness with only his katana.
I vote for naming the test rig “the Doohickey 4000.”
*8000, surely, since it can hold 8 pool noodles?
The Close Shave
The Blade Hater
Arm of Destruction
Sir Smash-A-Lot
The Punisher
Uhhh..... Uhhh....
The Giga Chad
RumpleSwordSkin
Uhh....
The Slice-A-Nater 8000
That's all I got for right now
I think swing-amajig is better
@@austindavis4708 +1 for Swing-a-mah-jig 8000
Doohickey-inator. Put some respect on it
Possibly the best review to date, I'll definitely check out the extended version! Love the nice balance between "scientific approach" and just having fun whacking it.
You had me at "sword" and "destruction."
I think a perfect name for the sword cutting jig would be the swingamajig
Its catchy
That's the best name I've seen so far.
There are a lot of people completely misinterpreting this video. Nowhere in it do they hate on katanas they just do a destruction test to show how much damage the sword can take and because its cool. They explain multiple times that they are reviewing samples sent to them. They treated the swords the same. My one issue is that they might have talked a little more positively about the sword they have an affiliate link for at the beginning, but the actual review still seemed reasonably objective.
Thanks. We also have an affiliate link for the Thaitsuki katana we destroyed and being a higher priced item we would make more money if we sold more of those, but as you noticed in the video our focus is objectively rating each sword on its merits.
I did notice that afterwards but didn't want to edit my comment.
there was separate video with that sword review tho
@@shadiversity I wonder if you can make a video about what would be the benefits of having a katana made out of Adamantium like Deadpool's katanas in the Deadpool & Wolverine movie?
no they didn't smash the long sword against the metal bar as hard or as many times at the end due to the poo poo handle.
Ant seems like a good addition. Be fun to see him get more screentime and get feedback from a more novice person.
He seems interested, am definitely looking forward for more content with him
I feel like your final destruction test steel at the end should just be called, "the bar".
And if it breaks before “the bar” they take it to a little tiki bar and have a drink with it
You have destroyed the katana physically.
Now destroy it emotionally.
holy shit didnt expect to see you here brotha big fan
"Longsword better"
Emotional Destruction: 100
He already has.
Thanks!
Last few days, finally been seeing Shad on my homepage again, finally!
Tyranth continues to pull off the Villainous Prince Charming vibe to near perfection!
I thought I was the only one who noticed, lol 🤣
the hearts of the weaboo destroyed as they see each hit delivered 😂, just kidding but, cool video I loved it.
28:50 I love how he thought about the cameras first instead of accidentally hitting someone 😂
Well, we all stand out of range behind cover, the only thing in 'the line of fire' are the cameras
lol I did the same thing after a gnarly accident in my truck. got T boned and rolled my pickup. entire truck bent like a banana and crushed after 3 rolls. Crawl outta my truck all bruised up and a few scraps and instead of worrying about myself I was livid about me truck, wife is like "you could died, your hurt, the truck is replaceable, your not." and I gave her the grumpy look and said "I can heal, the truck cant" spent a week on the couch for that one.
@@pepsilove6306 Your fault, nothing to dicuss here :D
Honshu should use that broad sword footage for a commercial! I would call what Shad caused minimal damage even with the pommel breaking. No Sane person would ever put a sword though that in any practical situation. lol.
They are all very fixable.
@@GuitarsRockForever For the honshu and romance of men blades? Yes.
The 3000 katana however... fixable, but time consuming and likely to be weaker at the snapping point.
@@Destroyer_V0
I meant the honshu and the cheap katana.
The $3000 one is straight trash in term of damage.
@@GuitarsRockForever Thanks for clarifying. And yeah, it is surprising the difference in heat treating, having that much of a difference.
@@GuitarsRockForever How do you fix the $3000 blade where 8 or so inches snapped off and flew away from the sword?
Welcome to the channel New Guy.
I loved the detail Shad went into explaining the noodle rig. Great video as always.
I think a lot of people have no serious idea of how brutal a simple steel bar or pipe actually is.
I just worked around the balcony with such steel bars. They are very simple and dont look impressive. But seriously, the weight is massive and they are extremely durable in their shape. If you can put enough force behind such a simple bar, you would break through doors with them like swinging an axe, without the bar even having a scratch.
Putting any sword up against those seems unfair. Using a katana with different hardening throughout the blade, the result was a given kinda.
Oh yeah, those things are nasty. I once got hit by one. The guy just turned around and happened to hit me on the arm. It was not fast or intentional like a strike - but it still left a big blue mark. And it hurt like hell.
The big long stick is dangerous, especially when it's made out of steel.
Thank you for the now even better standardized tests you do now for the swords, which will help so much in the future to keep everything to facts!!!
We expected it, though the tests did surprise me in the nuances. I definitely didn't expect the bending of the sword this much, even for the Romance of Men Katana!!!
Awesome content and love the interaction of his. Was kind of expect of him doing as well some hits. XD
I love tests like this. Very interesting. Thank you for your sacrifices ⚔
Traditionally made Katanas were doing a good job with poor quality material. They don't make much sense with good quality modern steel. Even in medieval times I gather Europe had better quality material than Japan, so the way Katanas were made was an attempt to overcome / make the best of that lower quality raw material.
JP steel do be pretty dogwater.
The different grades of steel is due in part to when you try to make the improved steel... The quality of product you get out will vary too.
Thats exactly what also Shad has said. But some people still insist on believing its superiority because they want to. Thats why they do this kind of videos sometimes, to give objective proof to something that is objective.
Steel quality was quite variable in Europe as well, and they tried to compensate through things like slack-quenching, iron core construction, etc- things that were done in Japan as well. Until Huntsman's process in England swords could be all over the place as regards hardness/brittleness. Couldn't go out and buy a bar of 5160 or 1084 in 1600.
You are very correct, Japan did not have good iron(there's a natural density in iron ore I forget the specifics of it, but the grade of iron and other materials in it can be measured, Japan's natural iron was pretty crap)and it's the reason their smiths became so good at folding steel. It was necessary just to get decent quality out of the ore.
Being a smith in Japan was a prominent profession for so long because of how often breaks occurred and repairs were needed.
This is also the reason the technique of using the katana was so refined. It was important to train your strikes daily and ritually not just for a quick kill, but for your finances. Accuracy was everything. The katana was not meant to go steel for steel. It was pretty interesting seeing how the Spring Steel variant performed.
I was very confused for a moment when I saw only a hundred likes and a dozen comments, I've been watching a lot of y'all's older vids and didn't realize this was new at first lol
Whelp, old style of steel making produces old style of steel quality.
it's not only the old style but the layering process as well. all japanese blade types had a soft spine, which you guessed it, bends instead of flexes like a full carbon steel blade. they were made this way, because they didnt have the technology to make crucible steel with iron sand and to avoid blades snapping due to being too hard, they introduced a soft spine to them so they would bend instead.
@@Tunturisorsa
Katanas can flex a little, but it will be bent. The upside is that it can be bent back.
@@samuraijackoff5354 yes and no. depends on the bend and if you have already bent it in the past. everytime the blade gets bent, it will bend easier until it just snaps
@@Tunturisorsa
Oh! Something I just remembered, a katana is not meant to be taken out to be used as a main weapon but a self defense one. So the Katana will rarely be used between each bend. At that point just reforge it really.
For the most part, Japan's metal working technology was on par with the standard of the time until the 19th century when Europe and China modernized their procedures.
The bend effect might also depend on if it was a Koto, Shinto or Shinshinto blade.
@@samuraijackoff5354 yes. Katana was a side arm and a symbol of post more than a weapon of war. On the battlefield it would've been the last resort weapon.
I would really love to see you test romanceofmen's same katanas made of different steels the same way, because they offer quite a few options. That could potentially show a lot of proportions of different blade materials and their differences. I'm pretty sure they list the HRC of each option as well.
I picked up a romance of men katana after the one Shad reviewed. Being a huge gun guy (and a kinda sorta modern combat knife/folding knife guy), I know next to nothing about swords. I do however know how to spot poor machining and coatings. Owning a proper functional katana was a childhood dream I had literally forgotten about for 15+ years. The little plate between the tsuba and habaki is a little loose, but other than that the overall fitment is good. My only complaint is the (fake) gold plating on the tsuba has noticeable bubbling and just isn't applied very well. The grip wrap isn't perfectly symmetrical either, but it's nice and tight and doesn't shift under pressure. The few negatives about it would not prevent me from wholeheartedly recommending them to other people, nor will it stop me from buying a tanto from them in the future. $250 custom-made katana that's actually functional, reasonably well put together and durable? Can't beat that.
I've also got an S5 shock steel longsword on order from cloudhammer forge (also as a direct result of the Shadiversity video on the s5 shock steel katana). If I were in Australia I'd gladly contact Shad and try to find a way to get it into his hands for some testing... But I'm in the states, so that's highly unlikely unless he'd want to pay postage both ways (I would want it back after all). I'm sure he can source his own anyways.
'destroys a 3000 dollar katana'
Somewhere a swordsmith is crying
Why would a swordsmith cry though? I'd imagine they would make and discard dozens of swords on their way to improve. Sword geeks and art enthusiasts may cry. A swordsmith more likely will exclaim "Aha, interesting."
Plus we all know that Katanas aren't the Mary Sue that anime shows or video games often depict them, because like with every other sword, they too have weaknesses and design flaws. Lol.
I know Shadiversity is trying to be honest, because he is suggesting that most people should probably just buy the cheaper sword.
A lot of people would say "if it isn't made in a traditional way, it isn't any good". Not based on truth, just based on bias/opinion/assumption/lore/history/etc.
Being a channel about historical this and that and appreciating all the old things and old ways, doesn't cloud his judgement for the use in real world tests of traditional vs modern.
Much respect for Shad and his team. 👍
I can’t imagine many people buying a Japanese sword to actually swing around and chop stuff up. The only reason I could possibly think of buying one would be to go on your mantle or on your wall and at that point do you want a katana or do you want something with some historical value?
Ive always wanted to see how an actual traditional katana compares to moderday versions
blacksmithing has evolved over time and so are the materials used, there is no way how a more modern version is inferior to the traditional one, unless it's some kind of lost technology like sword of Goujian which people still can't figure out how it was made.
But is it also using the traditional materials with the same quality steel, which means poor steel quality otherwise it’s not really traditional my book
Honestly? In practical applications? Theyre trash in comparison. Will be just as sharp for a while, but it will dull faster and as we've just seen. It cant compare in terms of durability.
@@USS_Grey_Ghost No they specifically stated it is a modern steel so the comparison between the two katanas would be more accurate. This mostly just tested differential hardening (the traditional method) vs through hardening (modern) iirc.
Traditional? As in includes metal from meteorites?
OMG. Your videos are invaluable and precious for all swords enthusiasts and even historians. I can believe that after 20 years of martial arts, practicing, teaching and reading I'm still learning. Learning while being flabbergasted with my jaw on the ground. In theory I knew a lot about the medieval swords and steel, the inferior quality of the katana, but this is outrageous.
Were they fighting with toy swords?
You Shad, you are the real teaches' teacher. Thank you
The new guy’s anxiety is so relatable, welcome to the family 🫶
I appreciate videos like this because it's just simple scientific method. So many people get bent out of shape over the mythology of the blade without understanding how much myth went into the stories of the sharpest blade or unbreakable blade
somewhere in the Thaitsuki PR department:
We send you guys a 3000$ sword for free ... and you keep salivating over the other swords.
Shad its ashame UA-cam is not putting this content out more these Videos are awesome man.
The pain I feel from the intro, bravo shad. Not a negative by the way!!!
I’ve wanted one of their Honshu swords for a few years. They have sword and dagger combo I liked.
Solid stuff.
Love your channel Shad!
I love how Shad is definitely actually 100% no joke holding the sword in the thumbnail
I love the new contraptions in the recent videos. They look cool but make a bunch of sense.
Name submission for 'the rig': "The Finger Flinger 9,000; Used to be 10, 000 but... Well, you know..."
YES... finally people can stop roasting me for saying Katanas break easily
na skill issue
Easily? The majority of people don’t smack(not cut) swords on wood and steel. I’ve broke a long sword doing dumb stuff it wasn’t made for, should I say that was easy too?
@@theZDOME
That's actually what swords do, literally, in battle - smack wood and steel. Traditional Japanese Armor is a combination of bamboo and iron. Now granted, any warrior would prefer to hit flesh exclusively - it's just the other guy is usually really invested in keeping that from happening.
"The majority of people don’t smack(not cut) swords on wood and steel" -@@theZDOME What? swords literally hit other wood and steel. What do you think swords are doing when they clash against another sword? When a swordsman go up against a spear, they are blocking at a shaft made of wood. Armor is made out of wood leather and steel. That is literally what the swords are hitting.
Swords usually are something that you just want to save your life in a moment. I'm sure most would hope not to have to use it at all, and as long as it works long enough to save your ass, it has succeeded. Then you can worry about replacing it just so you hopefully don't have to use the new one again.
There really is something satisfying about destroying something. Maybe the innate caveman in us all.
Unga bunga feel good!
But yea breaking stuff is cathartic. Kinda why it's fun to shoot up tvs and other objects here in the US. Lots of explosions an when you physically break stuff getting a LOT of stress out.
@@etherealboomslang991who shoots tvs that’s very weird and never herd of that being common practice in the USA .
@@doyouhaveawristband Oh come on, you know what he meant! IE, shooting random deprecated things at the range. Don't be that guy.
I love ALL Shadiversity videos!!!! ❤
Even when they come out smack in the middle of European nighttime, lol
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Seriously UA-cam, this channel deserves better.
Also, great vid. As much as katanas are awesome, people need videos like this to help them understand that the6 can’t cut through anything and aren’t invulnerable.
More videos please Tyranth. Your channel is phenomenal! This channels good as well; thanks guys 😁
Can you etch the cross section of the ThaiTsuki katana. It is supposed to be honsami, and that should show up in vinegar etching. Would be good to know if it is infact that kind of blade.
Great suggestion mate! Looking at the grain we can see that the edge steel is clearly different to the core and sides, but etching sounds cool. We also just got a scratch hardness testing kick (didn't arrive in time for the review), the edge hardness comes in at 60.
It hurt my soul when the blade snapped, and I don’t even like katana’s that much
Watch this man's channel viewership go up whenever fromsoft releases a new game.
The contrast between traditional and modern steels and techniques is interesting, I knew we had better steels today but to see how much of a difference it makes for a sword is interesting.
i'm convinced that Honshu is made of Vibranium. also, shout out to the Romance of Men for holding up nearly as well!!!
??? They are all made in china in longquan... All swords in this video are Chinese made and quite cheaply made at that.
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 material matters more than craftsmanship. this is the whole point of this series. "Chinese made" is meaningless.
I've had the practice version of the Honshu Broadsword for a while now and have much enjoyed how it handles. Seeing the actual blade in a bit of action now has certainly piqued my interest in picking one up. Handles aside, Honshu makes some damn fine blades
Looking forward to seeing Tyranth's Katanife from the $3000 blade tip
Also called tanto
Shad's hatred of katana directed into making a youtube video on destroying them means good content.
I love the property you're on. I live in a boring apartment building right now. It looks so nice where you're at.
Love the effort Shad! Keep it up!
This anti-katana discrimination has to stop Shad!!
I feel like this has finally put a lot of the myths of the katana to rest, great work lads 👌
You'd think, but just look at the comments.
He forgot to enchant it with unbreaking 3 and mending.
Please keep a full trauma kit when doing this type of testing. It would suck to bleed out because someone took a blade fragment to the thigh. Edit or gut... ever see the QVC katana segment?
I really like these performance tests. I'm hoping more swords from Europe and elsewhere also make it into Shad's hands for review and test.
Especially with their increasing test standardization. I wonder what other death tra- er, devices they can build for some repeatable force tests.
And least not forget spears and such. There's been a few videos about shields, and it would be amazing for a version of the rig for them.
Shad, don’t let the other FNT guys hear about your Romance of Men 🤣
What great hoodies! are you gonna release a version that has the buckles? either real buckles or just .. stich fantasy cloth buckles over the hoodie? so it resembles more what you guys wear.
love the content! regards from Argentina!
Shad: The channel needs your help
Also Shad: Let's break a $3000 katana
I really hope the channel stays up forever with quality content like this- both informational and entertaining
It's only thanks to our legendary supporters that we're able to keep making this content. This katana was sent to us as a free review sample, but it's due to the support that we can sacrifice it in the review instead of needing the funds and selling it on after.
@@shadiversity and that's awesome. Keep on doing the Lord's work sir.
It is a good day when Shad and Tyranth get together for all hell will break loose.
That beginning made me jump out of my skin 😱 .. 😆
Hey Shad and team, you guys should look into Dawson Knives. They make swords with modern steels and I've always wondered how they actually hold up to tests like this. They have katanas made in 3V and Magnacut, they are right in the price range for the katanas that you already have.
the amount of knuckheads in the comments going "der der der the channel is dyeing lets break a 3k sword" clearly missed the part where it was gifted to the channel for free.
@temptempy1360 No, it isn't a fair argument.
First, as a contributor you are not a shareholder of the channel, and you don't get to determine at all what the creator does with the money you provided.
Second, what moron would give money to a random person on the internet if they have money troubles?
@@temptempy1360 they didnt spend money on it, it was a sword, gifted to the channel, by the sword maker to do as the channel saw fit as long as they gave an honest review of it.
The cutting rig should be called, regionally and for it's power, The Kangarig.
Idea for a video: In Book of the New Sun, the protag has a ceremonial executioner's sword called Terminus Est with a hollow channel in the center filled with mercury, so when you raise the blade it pools in the handle to make lifting it easier, and then when you swing down it pools in the tip to increase the swinging force. While the book acknowledges that it's not practical, I think it would be pretty cool to try and recreate and test a sword like this.
That just wouldn't work. By the time it pools by the handle, you would have already lifted it; by the time it pools in the blade, you would have already contacted your target. the mercury would move slower than the sword and be acting against you the entire time. Mercury also isn't that heavy and the weight difference would be pretty much unnoticeable unless you had a wildly impractically large channel to contain it. It's a stupid idea.
Angular momentum + centrifugal force would make that extremely unwieldy: the mercury isn't trying to follow the arc of your swing, it wants to go in a straight line away from the center of rotation. When it hits the end of the channel, that inertia will get transferred through the blade to your hands. If you swing it hard enough it will yank itself out of your grip.
@@Stop_Gooning That simply makes me more interested to see if they could make it work somehow
@@ilikecatsandstuff1 The weight shifting around would make it a little like a rope-dart; swings could suddenly become thrusts and vice versa.
@@Stop_Gooning Yes, I understand that it is not practical. It is not practical in the book. But for a channel that sometimes discusses fantasy swords, it could be an interesting video.
Apparently, $3000 isn't enough to cut a house in half...
Unless you're in Japan. They love building their houses with bamboo and rice paper.
At least traditionally.
Are you from the US? In that case I would not dare to open my mouth. Plywood and PE pipes...
I need some Honshu swords, they appear to be absolute units.
They heavy af be warned
@@cantremember6794it's only some of them, right? I own the honshu claymore and the black cutlass (can't remember the name of it).
Honshu claymore isn't too heavy (as shown on this channel), and the black cutlass isn't light, but not even close to being heavy. Both cut like a beast tho.
Not all of their swords are amazing. In this price range, you gotta do your own research to make sure they're worth buying.
I had one of their D2 gladiator swords, snapped in half third time cutting brush. They told me I was abusing it.
@@ReffaDay how much was it? And what was the steel quality?
@@zsDUGGZ like $220 a few years ago, was made from D2 tool steel. Was quite disappointed with it.
Giving yall the basic rundown on modern blades . Good testing. I bought the Viking sword from windlass battle cry series many years back for a few hundred dollars and I’ve been happy with it but I’m not trying to destroy it and only hit soft targets, but I know it will get the job done if worst comes. I like single handed swords myself.
Can't wait for the extended cut😁
The nonchalant "Nope, nah, nada" after using the other sword for me the second time 😂
I can already see people claiming that you have to spend $300k for a REAL katana
Also, a real samurai trained properly in the ancient, forgotten arts would be able to cut through steel like butter using a katana, of course.
In fairness, I assume a traditional katana made in the traditional way with traditional steel would probably be a damn bit more expensive than $3k.....but would also be objectively worse than the $3k katana they used lol.
Well if we are going to be literal in the sense a “REAL” katana means a Japanese made sword. They are not cheap at all, but 300 grand means you’re buying a old one made by a top tier blacksmith family.
@@theZDOMEThe numbers on the ones that meet Japanese legal standards are still pretty insane though.
Like $10k range or somesuch
@@n0wheregrrlonly after a solid monologue about the power of friendship and the lessons learned along the way
im really glad he got a machine to swing the sword. dont want someone hurt
I don’t know how so many people can’t understand that the sword masters 1000 years ago built the best swords that they could make with the technology at the time. As technology advances so does the ability to make better steel
Not only that, the quality of the steel was poorer compared to the european one
@@alessandromazzini7026
Very much so! Hell even to this very day if you’re wanting the best quality steel. It’s coming from England, US, Germany, and surprisingly Brazil. Now you can also get cheaper quality of steel in England, US, Germany, and Brazil also. Because it’s all on what people are willing to pay for will dictate the quality. But the 4 mentioned countries have the best technology, and also the quality of the ore needed to produce the highest quality of steel too. Where Asia has small pockets of quality ore but not enough for real production
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I almost forgot to mention that the vast majority of peoples beliefs in the mythological Japanese Katana, and it’s high quality. An also added mythological abilities to it is thanks in large part because of Hollywood, and the Ninja, Samurai movies
Tyranth was so impatient to get his turn on the wood😂
A lot of people don’t understand that the reason for the traditional katana construction is because of the poor quality of the steel. Same for why they had to fold it.
These are some of the best videos. Keep destroying expensive swords! For added shabang , get Oz in there for well-timed Peyronie’s disease jokes.
Have you guys done a review of the Honshu boshin katana or any Cold Steel swords?
We have a review up of the cold steel messer, and other honshu swords, and other cold steel items have appeared in various videos
@@shadiversity awesome!! Your sword review videos are awesome and we especially like the historical videos you do. We even use many of them in our home school curriculum.
That was impressive. Watching that 3k sword die was sad but I appreciated the level of testing.
I wonder what Sekiro's katana was made of.
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...magic lol.
God's pubic hairs.
Which one
Albino snake fang?
That was fun to see, The destructive testing was spot on. Try to find the worst thing you can do and see what happens.
The new boy look awesome.
With a long stylish haircit would look amazing.
Nice smile. 😎
Please Shad, don't turn him into Johnny Bravo. 😢
Doing my part for algorithm engagement
New to the channel. Just as new as your buddy is Infront of the camera it seems. He did a good job
Oof, RIP that Thautsuki katana. Do you have any plans to do anything with its remnants, Shad? I wouldn't mind picking up its fittings if they're for sale.
Shiiit I put them in mine if they fit lol
I kinda wanna see it's current form cleaned up into a shortsword.
Though the tip will be what used to be the softer spine steel...
@1stCallipostle The problem with reshaping a broken katana is that the hardened edge will run off the tip, meaning that even if a new tip is ground in the new tip will be unhardened steel, which is considered a fatal flaw.
I think it was pervy sage who dropped this bit of wisdom.
"If you want to cut wood use an axe. We don't use our whangs to hammer nails right?😂
I mean it wasn't made for that to be fair. But it is nice to know how an expensive sword holds up to abuse. Someone had to do it. Great test!
A sword would have went through that type of abuse on the battle field. It would have been hitting other swords, armor and you name it.
"If it is not deified, it is not a real katana."
I feel like it's worth noting that 'modern materials' can still be both shallow hardening and deep (through) hardening. In fact it would be impossible to produce a hamon on a sword that was made from deep hardening steel. And while various types of carbon steel (low/mid/high) might have been used in making the katana, the actual forging process would have homogenised it throughout the whole sword through carbon diffusion.
I think an interesting test would be a traditionally made sword, a sword made from a single steel but still differentially heat treated, and then a deep hardening steel version. Preferably all from the same smith for consistent heat treat as that is probably one of the single biggest differentiators between blades.
sword destruction? hell yea!
Traditional Katanas are usually differentially hardened so that the spine is softer and the edge harder. This can be ampilfied by sanmai constructions where you forgeweld two soft steels on a hard middle layer.
The differential hardening serves the function that it will bend instead of break (thats why it broke when they stroke the beam spine first).
On the battlefield it was common to straighten your blade on the spot.
With modern steels and heattreatment you can get a more reliable balance over toughness and hardness.
Very good demonstration of traditional katana vs modern katana vs springsteel.
Great video! These are so enjoyable, I'm glad y'all actually test things out!!!