It's easy to make weapons these days, what with the technology that is at hand. The folks from Man At Arms have recreated a lot of weapons before in the past, but their latest exercise is probably their most impressive one. They decided to make a katana using the traditional old school Japanese way.

There's a lot of work that goes in to making a katana and the process itself is tiring.


From using 1,100 pounds of charcoal to make metal from ore to using 24 karat gold as a finishing touch, watch the video below on how they did it:


If you have time, you can check out how Japanese master swordsmiths do it: