I just want to know why is cold steel katana a very good sword?? How can you tell if a cold steel katana is good or not
Can see this one is gong to cause a lot of controversy, price, country of origin, stuff like that might help you form an opinion on the particular sword
Save your money and by a wooden boken. Train with a well balanced wooden one. It is how the great Japanese master started their training. Steel swords are good for display. and perhaps if you become relay good and want to feel the heft and practice cutting straw men and bamboo stalks than invest some money in the real deal for a few hundred $$ at the least.
Cold Steel makes the best and strongest swords around, ever cut through a steel car hood? Their swords can, I would suggest that if you but one, to also get yourself some life insurance... these things are incredible.
The only way to be sure about the steel in your sword is to take it to a university and have its components analyzed by the metals department. If there are high concentrations of carbon and iron and not much else, then you know the steel in your sword is of high quality and has been made well. There really is no other way short of bashing the sword against something else to determine how brittle it is or how strong it is. Ideally, you want a combination of both...high carbon steel on the outside to hold an edge, low carbon steel on the inside to give it strength and allow it to bend instead of break.
