Hey, did you know that the same vendor sells
these little beauties?!?Rainbow Ninja Swordswww.trademarkcommerce.com/detail.asp?pc=17615&cat=6204Just the thing for all those gay ninjas in your life! Both blades fit in one saya! How they must feel so comfy in there snuggling together! Too bad your uncle didn't buy us all some of these :shock:
Don't guess it matters that after taking all the time to do proper ninja things - like dress in black & make smoke bombs and all that secret ninja stealth stuff - this sword will... ah... um... let's just say it won't be camouflaged during any of one's many nightly assassination missions one will be completing ASAP after receiving these ah... colorific weapons of mass homicide... ah, 'scuse me... I ahhhhhh... have to I go wash my eyes out with Comet, now... it burns. It burns.
Ok, I'm back now. The point being on the same website they describe the specific set above as "stainless" & use this feature to advertise it being "rust free." Dunno if they mean any rusting it does do is at no extra charge to you :lol:
We all know sometimes these advertisers twist words and all to make a fault appear to be a plus... but many of the swords on their website are described as being "stainless," so it's not like they are trying to hide it when they are stainless and not carbon blades.
Anyway, with all seriousness, I like your sword
much better than the Lucky-Charms-rainbow-array-of-fruit-flavors blade of colorific ninja-ness. You definitely got the better end of the deal, but I wouldn't recommend you start going George-Washington-on-a-cherry-tree with it or anything.
My guess is your "new crappy kantana" is not stainless, especially since it does rust easily. When folks use the word "stainless," what they usually mean is the steel has a Cr content of >10% so typically it doesn't rust unless put under harsh conditions... 'harsh' meaning being in the ocean with a bunch of salt and little oxygen and such. Handy thing to know if anyone out there is
a pirate AND a ninja!!! Kids, remember not to get your sword wet in the salt water if at all possible during your adventures on the high seas
One other thing, when you say "
my sword is magnetic," do you mean you can do things like go around the house picking up thumbtacks and paperclips with it? That would be pretty interesting...
I'll bet you're saying your sword is attracted when you place a magnet near it, which means there's some iron in it. Thing is, this is not a definitive way to distinguish stainless from non-stainless steels. Some stainless steels can be magnetized and some can't.
For instance, my refrigerator is stainless steel & I have a helluva time getting refrigerator magnets to stick to it's face. Some of them will stick, but the magnet has to be relatively strong for them to do so.
Anyway, on our previous not-stainless-steel fridge, the same magnets which won't stick to the face
now went on easily
before & stayed there. So my experience is some stainless steel is capable of being magnetized, but it can be tricky as its response to a magnet may be significantly weaker than most steel. Some stainless steel has a significant amount of Ni in it, and so can't be magnetized at all. So if a sword can't be magnetized, this is a big tip off. But you say your's can be...
The bottom line being that if your sword "is magnetic," then it could be either carbon or stainless steel and get this result.
The rust is a big tip off its probably not stainless though, IMO.
Hope those tips on stainless vs. carbon steel help you figure this out, & remember the rest is just all in good fun