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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2011 20:36:41 GMT
When I bought my first real katana, I bought a musashi, because they are affordable, and I'm a broke college student that makes money through eBay.
I want a rapier or saber, but I don't want to spend all of my money. I haven't really looked yet, but does anyone know where I can get one for around $70 tops?
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Post by Dave Kelly on May 30, 2011 22:08:16 GMT
With that kind of budget I'd recommend ebay, or yard sales, or pic up the paper and shop estate closings. On that kind of budget you want to go junkin. Oh I forgot. BudK can help ya; just for the luv of gawd don't swing the sword.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2011 22:28:12 GMT
I'm not a sword n00b, ya know. I'm just more of a katana guy, and I'm going into unfamiliar territory. As for BudK, they have some nice looking swords(I get their magazine), but i want something I can use.
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Post by caferacer on May 30, 2011 22:56:25 GMT
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Post by Bogus on May 31, 2011 0:14:22 GMT
You may want to avoid the yard-sale scene unless you have a good idea what you're looking for, as wallhangers and functional sabers often look very similar. It's going to be very hard to find anything new in that price range, I would recommend going up a bit and having a look at some of those Windlass sabers and possibly Hanwei rapiers. For what it's worth I have one of the latter and am very impressed with what you get for ~$150.
Bear in mind if you order a Windlass product it does not come sharpened due to local export laws, so if you want to use it you're looking at an extra 10-20 bucks to have the retailer sharpen it or a lot of work doing it yourself. Hanwei's Western lines are theoretically sharp, but rather notoriously spotty in that regard...my experience is their rapier blades can best be described as "pointy" but if you ask nicely the retailer might pick out a particularly sharp one for you.
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Post by Freebooter on Jun 5, 2011 22:11:27 GMT
For sabers you can go to a Civil War reenactment and at the sutlers (vendors) you can pick anywhere from pieces of crap to quite good repros, from little a nothing to a couple hundred. I have had like four MRL 1860 Lt. Cav. Sabres (from U.S. Civil War) and one from Ames, and they were all well made, fully tempered, hardened carbon steel, etc. The AMES one was like $145.00 and the MRL ones were $98.00 at the time (two or three years ago). I found out the AME, identickle to MRL's, blades were made in India and handles here and assembled at the Ames plant. So it is my opinion their blades are made by Windless right along with MRL's. $98.00 bucks is not bad for a decent cavalry sabre.
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