Ok, a lot of people buy stainless steel swords. A stainless steel bowie, tanto, or wakazashi, are perfectly good weapons; but when it comes to swords, not so much. They will either break, or be too heavy to wield. For example, my brother collects Kit Rae swords, which look nice; but if you take that into a fight with me, I will cut it in half with my katana.
For a sword or a machete, you need to use carbon steel, and preferably have it quenched in the same way that a katana or a gurka kikri knife is quenched, although you could not do that with a machete (the blades on those are too thin). But still, machetes are very good tools and very nice weapons. My katana is too long to use indoors (I actually broke one of my chandeliers practicing with it), so I would instead use my machete if someone tried to break into the house.
In fact, one time I thought sometime was trying to break into the house, and I was buttnaked because I had just had sex with my current gf, and I had both the katana and the machete handy. I just drew my machete and went out there. Turns out it was just cats on the roof; but if it had been an intruder, it would have gotten macheted to death.
I am currently trying to build a forge so I can make a kunai and a gurka kikri using the millenary Japanese forging method. Also, to forge some armor. I will need an anvil for that, though.
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