Any recommendations for a real katana (traditionally made)

[u/More-Competition-603]

Looking for a traditionally made katana, i don't care so much about the type of steel as long as it's a quality katana but i would like a budget friendly katana, not a fake one that can be sold for like 30 quid. A proper katana, i wouldn't mind even a name of a company that sells good traditionally made katana's.

[u/KeyAgileC]

What do you mean by "traditionally made"?

The traditional manufacturing method is how swordsmiths in Japan do it. The process involves tamahagane, lots of manual labour, and years of training to produce a sword to their quality standards. That is traditionally made, they come with a certificate of authenticity, and they cost thousands, at least.

But you mention you're looking into 1060 carbon steel "traditionally made, budget friendly" katanas, so clearly the authentic method is not what you care about. So when you say "traditionally made", what do you mean? What part of the process do you want to go in what way?

[u/More-Competition-603 → u/KeyAgileC]

By traditionally made, i mean with a certification as cheap as possible originally the best quality i can afford with a few hundred quid maybe 500 ive established it'll take time to save up but for the meanwhile while im waiting for enough to buy a tamahagane katana. Just for practise at the moment, i know it seems like im contradicting myself, but to sum it up, cheap, good-decent quality steel, certification, hamon, part of what i meant by traditionally made is folded steel.

[u/DRSENYOS → u/More-Competition-603]

'Certification' implies criteria that most laypeople may not grasp. What would be your definition of 'certification'?

No offence meant, sincerely.