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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 8:14:38 GMT
Hi, i just recently joined this forum and i have virtually no sword experiance what-so-ever accept various wall-hangers and a sgc tsukikage that i recently required. just want to know if anyone owned any of the hand-forged katanas on the websites global gears and their experience with them. globalgear.com.au/category156_1.htm
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 12:58:39 GMT
They have a very varied range. If you generally wait, the prices of the cheaper swords come down. They have an ebay store as well, that has alot of their items even cheper.
Can I ask you, as you live in Australia, when you received your Tsukikage was it disassembled in the box( due to its length)?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 13:28:56 GMT
I am new to swords as in collecting them not admiring them and my dodgy-o-meter starts dinging when i see hand forged folded swords for that cheap. I'm not saying they are necessarily bad just looking at price and looking at their statistics make me a bit wary, also some of the fittings on their swords don't really look that great. Personally i would rather pay a little extra to get something i know i can trust, than to buy something that looks to good to be true. Hope that helps.
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Apr 10, 2007 15:19:50 GMT
Hi, I've got one off ebay for $74 plus the 35 post. I'll let you know how it goes when I get it at the end of this week. Yes alarm bells ring, but theyre so cheap I can but hope. Theyre often on ebay starting at 99c - sound dodgy but many go for $150 ish.
If it turns out to be crap I'll be onto these cheness ones next. This 9260 steel in them looks like the goods.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 15:48:26 GMT
They have a very varied range. If you generally wait, the prices of the cheaper swords come down. They have an ebay store as well, that has alot of their items even cheper. Can I ask you, as you live in Australia, when you received your Tsukikage was it disassembled in the box( due to its length)? Actually i live in the U.S. so i can't answer that question. sorry about that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2007 10:02:10 GMT
Yeah I just forget that we all probably see the same ads at the top of this forum ! ;D I didn't realize they are , literally, global ! ;D
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Apr 17, 2007 13:21:46 GMT
Hi All. I received my G-2 Katana from global gear and thought i'd offer you my first impressions.
Excuse my lack of proper terminology.
The sword is snug in the scabbard with no movement when fully inserted. The sword comes with a stand, sword bag, and a maintenance kit. Presented nicely in a padded decorated box. There is also a spec sheet signed by the maker.
The sword is tighly assembled. The pegs in the handle are bamboo and very tight (hard to remove). Once removed the handle is very hard to remove from the tang. I couldn't move it at all so I put it back together. There are 2 pegs and I could see that the tang went through so that was my main concern - that it was full tang and assembled tightly.
The blade was very sharp. Nicely made with no obvious signs of poor workmanship. No rust spots and a healthy coating of oil. Uniform curve, bo-hi was uniformly made. Hamon is too uniform to be genuine but is not wire brushed. I guess its acid etched or something.
All cotton wrappings were tied off very nicely and very tight. You get a fair bit of bang for your buck in respect to display quality. My only gripe is that the tsuba is pretty rough. Other models in the series appear to have nicer tsuba.
Cutting - wow. This is my first katana. Compared to test cutting with my collection of live medieval swords, this is a lightsaber. I could cut slices off water bottles which is hard with the westerns. Even empty they would slice. I'm used to having to have water in them.
I had been saving up this box that my new barbecue came in. It is double layered cardboard. I folded it in 4" folds so that I had 7 thicknesses of cardboard. My first cut left only a dag holding the severed pieces together. My second cut decapitated the roll cleanly. I was so impressed.
Onto some light branches. I cut some 1" branches like nothing. Surgical cuts. My western swords usually cut half way through clean and just rip the rest off.
There have been some light scuffing on the blade from the cutting. The end has damage where I thrust it into the sandy ground. Tiny chips. I took them off with a fine stone. Won't do that too often. I have had no trouble standing my Medieval beaters in the ground. I guess the more hardened steel is too brittle for that.
So for a very affordable katana I have found it nicely assembled, good looking, and enjoyable to cut with. No complaints given what I paid for it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 16:10:14 GMT
thanks brenno,beacuse of your review I too now want a G-2 katana(also i have a thing for long Tsukas). i agree with you that the tsuba is butt-ugly. Probably be changing that when I get it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 16:36:43 GMT
Sounds like you have a keeper. A rubber mallet works well to disassemble your sword. You can check out the 3rd page of my Kaze review to see how I did it. Disassembly is probably a good thing to learn so you can inspect your sword for safety purposes if you are going to use it for cutting. /index.cgi?board=swordreviews&action=display&thread=1166459430&page=3
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Apr 18, 2007 9:02:28 GMT
thanks brenno,beacuse of your review I too now want a G-2 katana(also i have a thing for long Tsukas). i agree with you that the tsuba is butt-ugly. Probably be changing that when I get it. Maybe bid on the G-5, Last samurai. It has a 14" handle and a much better looking tsuba. No bo-hi but some nice etched print on the blade. Does anyone know if tsubas are generally interchangable? ![???](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/huh.png)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2007 9:55:28 GMT
thanks brenno,beacuse of your review I too now want a G-2 katana(also i have a thing for long Tsukas). i agree with you that the tsuba is butt-ugly. Probably be changing that when I get it. Maybe bid on the G-5, Last samurai. It has a 14" handle and a much better looking tsuba. No bo-hi but some nice etched print on the blade. Does anyone know if tsubas are generally interchangable? ![???](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) By all means they are, Yes . The only hinderence to changing your tsuba is its thickness. You may have to redrill the holes in the tang, if it pushes the tsuka up too much . If the blade wont fit into the new tsuba , you just file the inside of the tsuba to fit. You can change them like you change your clothes, if you like . Look at it like a smart collar on the koshirae outfit of your katana. ![;)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by manman on Apr 20, 2007 2:37:56 GMT
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Post by sol on Apr 20, 2007 5:15:04 GMT
Really I don't follow you? ![:D](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Sol
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2007 6:56:57 GMT
My brain is turning into hamburger meat trying to interpret that. ![???](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/huh.png)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2007 21:53:08 GMT
My brain is turning into hamburger meat trying to interpret that. ![???](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) Nofingershaha, I believe he is speaking in Wankernese, A very common language among people whos frontal lobe hasn't quite developed fully. In turn it makes them masturbate all the time, and feel the need to get penal extensions to compensate for their lack of personality. All is not bad though, after living a life of near dissatisfaction they almost always just run onto a main highway in peak hour , and do us all a favour ! Thank you.
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