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Post by Greg E on Aug 12, 2014 2:27:43 GMT
Thank you for the review. I have one of these that I got from SwordnArmory.com My experience with this piece mirrors yours, down to needing a bit of a shim on one of the seppas since I don't have any extra at the moment. To make mine a bit less monochrome on color I took a scotchbrite pad to the 'flowers' on the tsuba and the metal reinforcing pieces. It came out pretty well, but also showed me that they are made of an alloy that is not steel. For the money, it is a decent piece. Just gotta wonder about the strength of the pole.
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Post by Novice_Surgery on Aug 13, 2014 4:08:55 GMT
It looks nice. Thank you for the review. I would love to see a cutting video! Not enough people make videos of them using theyre naginata and polearms. I hope you enjoy it and repost when you reinforce it.
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Post by Voltan on Aug 15, 2014 18:32:53 GMT
Thanks for the review. At that price, very tempting. I got to cut with a Naginata at one of our NorCal meetups a couple years ago...it was a blast!
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Post by Greg E on Aug 15, 2014 20:23:32 GMT
Here are a couple pics of mine after I rubbed parts of the metal fittings with a scotchbrite pad. I also wrapped part of the pole with some leather that I had laying around to try out some wrapping techniques.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 13:56:49 GMT
Real naginata are expensive, have the Hanwei one, if you can get it for $500 that's a steal, that's what they sell them for at KoA, their RRP $860.00
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Apr 17, 2015 14:13:26 GMT
The only problem is they're always back ordered even on Hanwei's website. I read a review somewhere that an instructor had a Hanwei get a chip in the blade so not even they are indistructable. A bent blade is easier to fix than a chipped one. I was thinking until the Hanwei are available or for those who just don't want to spend over $500, what about getting the blade on this one tempered. The guys on the forum who makes swords might be willing to do it.
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Post by Lukas MG (chenessfan) on Apr 17, 2015 14:32:48 GMT
Tempering alone wouldn't do anything, you have to completely redo the HT... normalize, quench and temper. It would also be important to know what kind of steel it is... so it's not such a small project.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Apr 17, 2015 15:11:29 GMT
They say it's a 1060 carbon steel blade. The problem is you don't have many choises in a naginata like you do in a katana. In fact the only non stainless steel blade ones I could find was this one and Hanwei. The Hanwei is still on back order and cost over $500 at KOA. It's also not to often you see a used one for sale like you do katanas. These cost about $70 so even if it cost $200 to get it taken care of you're still $240 ahead without the wait on the back order.
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Post by Robnose on Apr 17, 2015 21:27:01 GMT
I had one from Sword n armory as well. I turned mine into this... Mainly because I suck at cutting with a naginata.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2015 10:24:41 GMT
I had one from Sword n armory as well. I turned mine into this... Mainly because I suck at cutting with a naginata. Now it's a nagamaki!
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Apr 18, 2015 14:34:38 GMT
I just ordered one from Sword of Might using a 25% off coupon which made it $67 with free shipping. RSM wanted $20 shipping to my address which would have made it $87 total. By the way SOM says they're made by Musashi, not exactly Hanwei but at least it's not a no name brand. I thought about it and since I would rather do my cutting with a sword and might just cut some light stuff just to try it out the blade issue isn't important.
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Post by randomnobody on Apr 19, 2015 7:06:22 GMT
I'm still tempted by one of these, but dunno if I like 'em enough.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Apr 19, 2015 16:42:16 GMT
If you're going to do it nows the time, you won't get a better price. Today's the last day to get 25% off at SOM by using coupon code BEST123. $67 to your door, assuming you're door is in the US. If your wife says what's that for just tell her it's a brush cutter.
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Post by johnj on Apr 19, 2015 23:15:35 GMT
I'm still tempted by one of these, but dunno if I like 'em enough.
I know I don't like it much, but for $67.49 I had to look at this pretty hard. I haven't got any polearm at all and knowing that I can correct that for less than the price of two days worth of cigarettes and beer... Okay, I'll have to buy the cigarettes but can live without beer for a few days.
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Post by blackchapel on Jul 12, 2015 19:48:01 GMT
Can you thrust and jab with a naginata?
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Jul 12, 2015 21:36:00 GMT
Yes. But straighter, less flared blades are better for this. (And you can thrust/jab with the butt as well.)
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Post by Robnose on Jul 26, 2015 15:01:07 GMT
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 28, 2015 9:05:01 GMT
Yikes, that's bad.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 9:34:36 GMT
When it sounds way too good to be true, it usually is! Keep in mind that was a polearm that cost less then $70 after all! They would have had to cut the cost somewhere! Probably designed for forms training only I'm guessing...
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 28, 2015 13:10:02 GMT
Yep, glad I skipped out, myself. Probably just supposed to be one step up from display-only, like hot said, forms practice, but maybe a bit of light tatami cutting on occasion. Obviously not built for anything else.
Still, price into consideration...
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