This is a tricky stage, in which as many as one in three swords is lost. Polishing the blade The katana, fully forged, now goes to a skilled sword polisher, who may spend more than two weeks ...
An amateur diver exploring shallow waters off northern Israel has found a sword thought to have belonged to a crusader knight 900 years ago. The one-metre (3.3ft) blade was discovered by Shlomi ...