Please make up your own mind on what types of steel best suit your preference (and budget) in a sword. It just depends on what you are looking for in a blade, what you like and your intended usage. A sword made from stainless steel is almost for decoration or kitchenware, we have no stainless steel ..
This sword named Xiu Chun Dao (秀春刀). Embroidered Uniform Guard was the imperial secret police that served the emperors of the Ming dynasty in China. This sword is made of damascus folded steel, 13 times folding process creats beautiful folded pattern you can see on blade. The six sided blade is full..