ts

First of all thanks for the answers. Okay so these are made by some chinese wannabe smith who tried to make it look real. Apart from the impertinence to call these real Japanese swords... I wonder what properties such a "fake" blade would have? I mean to make them look authentic they have to use a similar forging process (at least the obvious parts like folding the metal). So it would be more elastic, harder to break and sharper than, for example, some machine made display swords or iaitos, wouldn´t it? By the way I do not intend to buy one after having read your comments (bootlace :D ). (Sadly I don´t have the money to buy a real Japanese Katana either.)

Good day, I wanted to ask you guys whether or not the katana auctions of user thanks_you007 which appeared on ebay are frauds. For example this one: http://cgi.ebay.at/VINTAGE-HANDMADE-REAL-Japanese-SWORD-KATANA-RARE_W0QQitemZ180113375885QQihZ008QQcategoryZ20272QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Probably they are otherwise he wouldnt sell them for 1-10$ but what I dont understand is why these swords are looking like the work of a smith - i´m a newbie concerning katanas, but i know that forged swords are layered and that you can therefore see a grain/line pattern on them (Hada). So if the ebay sword´s a fraud how come it has this Hada pattern on it? Is it forged but not Japanese? Or is the pattern just "painted" onto the sword? I´d really appreciate if someone could look at some of the swords this guy offers on ebay and give me an opinion. ts