The sword is nice, the handle is wrapped quite well and is of good length to hold comfortably. It is pleasant to work with. The cutting part is quite sharp - it cuts through a hanging sheet of paper without effort, cuts leather, and slices cardboard. In tests on branches, it easily cuts branches up to about 3 cm thick. Thickness from 5 cm is, at least in my hands, impossible to overcome. It is quite easily straightened with a hammer if bent. The steel is rather soft, so after some fun in the forest it became chipped, got loose in the handle, and after straightening with a hammer it looks like a real sword after a hundred and ten battles :D Please don't moralize if someone treats this type of weapon as a fetish. In medieval Japan, they also tested the durability of swords - only on the corpses of convicts (the point is that very experienced professionals did it, but before becoming such, many blades were ruined).
