Okay - I went looking for pics of the sword - not good enough to give you make/model - but here is what I saw.
A twenty four inch blade and single edge with a chisel tip indicate a wakizashi - the blade in the picture shows no indication of a hamon - evan a cheap
etched or ground one. It does not look like stainless steel in the picture - so carbon - which means that depending on the temper, bending it should be
relatively easy (carbon steel will bend, cheap stainless has a tendency to break into sharp, jagged, chunks). Airbags blow with a lot of force, and applied
across the flat of the blade, could easily bend cheap carbon steel.
Cheers,
Shayne
A twenty four inch blade and single edge with a chisel tip indicate a wakizashi - the blade in the picture shows no indication of a hamon - evan a cheap
etched or ground one. It does not look like stainless steel in the picture - so carbon - which means that depending on the temper, bending it should be
relatively easy (carbon steel will bend, cheap stainless has a tendency to break into sharp, jagged, chunks). Airbags blow with a lot of force, and applied
across the flat of the blade, could easily bend cheap carbon steel.
Cheers,
Shayne