Samurai Warrior Full Tang Wakizashi Sword With Leather Scabbard

A friend asked me what sword I wanted as a gift and I had been eyeing this one for awhile, so I told him about it. I was quite pleased with it. It has a thick blade (three stacked nickels thick, for reference). I haven't chopped or hacked anything with it, so I cannot reference its performance. I honestly wasn't expecting it to have a real ray skin wrapped handle and I wasn't surprised when it felt like a faux ray skin handle. Ray skin tends to feel like a stone texture not like rubbery plastic. Unless rays are starting to feel like rubber due to all of humanity's polluting of the ocean, I'm going to have to call it out for not having a real ray skin handle. I really like it nevertheless since it was all I was expecting so I'm keeping the five star rating alive for it. It will be a fitting sword to wear on the hip since it is borderline to being a big knife. I just felt it was important to write a review for it addressing that it doesn't appear to be real ray skin.

I bought 2 of these for my wife, she been trained in several martial art weapons, and she loves them. The balance is good the weight is good, as a matter of fact they are good and heavy. These are real weapons not wall Hanger's. the sheaths are adequate and leather. Get some now, while you can because these are worth every penny. J.C. Hoffman

I bought this months ago and since I am loyal to budk and would hate to ever say anything against them, I was reluctant to leave anything other than a five star rating- however I have to say something. This sword/dagger is cool looking, but it is basically just for show. I do some sword training with a group of local martial artists and for a small demonstration I decided to buy this sword. After the demonstration I inspected the blade, only to find it was slightly bent and the wrapping on the handle was coming off after just one use. On top of that, the leather sheath began to come apart and fray after just a handful of times of pulling the blade out. Overall, I think this item is worth $25-35 tops. It's construction is definitely cheap and as far as swords I've purchased from budk go, this is probably among the worst. take my advice, spend this money on another sword from this site.