Practical Katana Performance Series

Our Practical Katanas have always been at the forefront of providing economical yet functional swords to the martial arts community. Now with the blade geometries and profiles of the performance series and the affordability of our Practical katana fittings, competition-standard cutting is within the reach of the tightest budget. Made from high carbon differentially tempered steel for the martial artist. The Performance Series allows the user to select the blade that has been designed from the ground up with blade geometry specially adapted to the needs of each Japanese Martial Arts discipline.
Performance Series Specs:

Practical Katana:
Frequent Cutting/Occasional Drawing Practice
Blade Length: 27”
Handle Length: 11”
Overall Length: 39”
Weight: 2lb 7oz

Practical XL Katana:
Heavy Competitive Cutting
Blade Length: 28 ½”
Handle Length: 11”
Overall Length: 40 1/2”
Weight: 2lb 11oz

Practical XL Light Katana
Competitive Cutting/Light Weight
Blade Length: 28 ½”
Handle Length: 11”
Overall Length: 40 1/2”
Weight: 2lb 9oz

BushidoSwords.com offers a full line of real samurai swords forged from high carbon battle ready functional steel. We offer handmade Japanese swords, forged and differentially tempered just like original samurai swords. Authentic practical swords offered by Paul Chen and the Hanwei Forge. We offer live blades as well as training swords, daito, boken and shinai for kendo. As well as katana's specially developed for Iaito and martial arts kata. Samurai Swords, Iaito Swords and Samurai Katanas forged and folded swords like original swords carried by the Japanese Samurai at BushidoSwords.com