A guy I know bought one of their cheap stainless samurai katanas. (Stainless Is a terrible material for a sword) He brought it over when I was clearing out some brush and asked if he could cut some down with it ( he’d “sharpened” it on a grinder for the love of god). Remembering Huck Finn getting his fence painted I let him get to it. He chopped away in his best video game technique (including semi-Japanese sounding grunts). I stopped him when he got to a hornbeam the size of my wrist ( very tough wood). He assured me ,contrary to immediate evedence of him hacking through smaller sumac using two dozen Ill -delivered strokes) that he could chop through in one cut. I moved off away from any direct line within the plane of his stroke. And yes,he actually, and without irony, said”haiiiii-yah! The blade snapped in two different places sailing off into the woods where it will lay, Unrusted, until some future archaeologists find it and theorize about the battle of the unyielding hornbeam. Bud-k sells sword shaped objects, not swords.
