If you’re going to get a katana, don’t buy it off the shopping channel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N4hprpRJhM
Not a chance. All my katana are Cold Steel or Bugei:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2YcBbubs8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhzX9GZ3qKE