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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Nov 18, 2017 7:43:12 GMT
... or machete! What's the ugly little secret in your collection you always tried to hide or sell? Pictures please! Here is my CS Two Handed Katana Machete: I named it "Stormbringer's Bad Dream". Ladies and Gents, let's have fun!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2017 20:52:57 GMT
None of my swords are ugly.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2017 22:05:28 GMT
... or machete! What's the ugly little secret in your collection you always tried to hide or sell? Pictures please! Here is my CS Two Handed Katana Machete: I named it "Stormbringer's Bad Dream". Ladies and Gents, let's have fun! No offense intended to those that like this machete but.......that's mega nightmare ugly!!
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Nov 18, 2017 22:15:51 GMT
Amen!
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Post by stormmaster on Nov 18, 2017 22:15:54 GMT
my ugliest thing that looks like a sword is my cold steel kopis machete, ugly as hell
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Post by pgandy on Nov 18, 2017 23:30:17 GMT
Ugly sword, or machete? Didn't know they existed. I'll have to admit some are more eye pleasing than others.
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Post by randomnobody on Nov 19, 2017 1:42:23 GMT
I'm a bit backwards. For me, the less effort taken for aesthetics, the better things look. My favorite plane is the A-10. I think it's beautiful, but it's well renowned as the ugliest thing in the air. I like motorcycles plain. Naked. No decals, no extravagant paint schemes. Solid colors, preferably black, and the closest thing I want to a fairing is a nice, big windshield. I wear plain, simple clothes and I like minimal accessories. Fanciest I get is my watch, titanium band with chronograph function is all I ask. So your ugly sword is my pretty sword. Thus, my personal favorite is the one seen at the bottom here: I had a picture of it by itself, but apparently I've deleted it. Oh well. This sword gives almost no value to aesthetics. By conventional accounts, it's a very unappealing thing. But I think it's gorgeous. Second place goes to this guy: Otherwise, I'll second whoever it was that said, to paraphrase, "I have no ugly swords."
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Post by Verity on Nov 19, 2017 1:53:27 GMT
Gave away my coyotes a long time ago.
My “least favorite” is my double brass ring cut and thrust from windlass. Not because it is ugly but because it doesn’t fit in the cases I use for display.
It sits in a corner. 😔
Worthless basically (maybe get a $100 for it), but the second sword I bought so has some sentimentality to it
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Nov 19, 2017 2:04:23 GMT
Haha, I share your preference for the A-10, plain bikes, your clothes and chronometer style and I also wear no accessories etc. And guess why I bought this sword! But I have to admit your swords may be uglier than mine! I thought it would be easier to get a few pictures of real pretty ugly ducklings.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Nov 23, 2017 23:57:45 GMT
I've got this thing. Not sure what it's supposed to be. My dad picked it up in his travels with the Navy some time in the 1960's in Asia. I think it was a tourist sword of some type. It's got a carbon steel blade, so that's good. But it's pinned to the handle with a roll pin. Oh well. It's not like I paid for it...
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Post by harrybeck on Nov 24, 2017 1:08:43 GMT
Da ?
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Post by randomnobody on Nov 24, 2017 1:16:12 GMT
Yep, looks like a dha/dharb or any other regional spelling. Not a terrible one, either, though hard to say if it's "real" or a tourist souvenir model.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Nov 24, 2017 1:56:48 GMT
Yep, looks like a dha/dharb or any other regional spelling. Not a terrible one, either, though hard to say if it's "real" or a tourist souvenir model. It does at least have a steel roll pin holding the blade on. I remember playing with it as a kid, its not sharp except on the tip (kids played with all kinds of stuff in the 70's that would be banned today). Both the sword and myself survived my childhood. I looked up some photos of a Thai dha sword and sure enough there are several examples that very closely match what I have, down to the proof markings on the blade. Never knew what it was before. Apparently it's worth about $200 US. Not high end, but not too shabby either. Although I suspect my dad only paid about $10 for it originally.
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Post by randomnobody on Nov 24, 2017 4:13:37 GMT
Yeah, they're not tremendously valuable, except the ones covered in silver or other precious metal or stones or what have you. They're very much utilitarian implements and not exactly the benchmark for high class sword making, but they do the job well enough.
I have a tourist model someone gave me a few years ago and it sits atop my entertainment center as I don't particularly trust it to hold itself together... But the real ones are solid and reliable tools/weapons.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Dec 6, 2017 20:07:52 GMT
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Post by randomnobody on Dec 6, 2017 20:28:01 GMT
Wow, that thing's atrocious.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Dec 6, 2017 20:46:09 GMT
Yep. I don't mind the sword it's self but the etching stinks. I think they have five year olds doing it. The big one looks like a cockroach with a tail. I now have another winter project, which I don't need with the two Motorcycle builds and several other projects. I was just thinking maybe I could use a belt sander to work out the etching. Lord knows the Deepeeka blades are thick enough where you could whack off an eighth of an inch and still have a thick blade. But I guess for $90 I shouldn't be to critical.
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Post by MOK on Dec 7, 2017 17:42:00 GMT
I'm a bit backwards. For me, the less effort taken for aesthetics, the better things look. My favorite plane is the A-10. I think it's beautiful, but it's well renowned as the ugliest thing in the air. I like motorcycles plain. Naked. No decals, no extravagant paint schemes. Solid colors, preferably black, and the closest thing I want to a fairing is a nice, big windshield. I wear plain, simple clothes and I like minimal accessories. Fanciest I get is my watch, titanium band with chronograph function is all I ask. So your ugly sword is my pretty sword. Thus, my personal favorite is the one seen at the bottom here: I had a picture of it by itself, but apparently I've deleted it. Oh well. This sword gives almost no value to aesthetics. By conventional accounts, it's a very unappealing thing. But I think it's gorgeous. Second place goes to this guy: Otherwise, I'll second whoever it was that said, to paraphrase, "I have no ugly swords." See, I don't think "ugly" has anything to do with the amount - nor lack - of bling. Attractiveness is in the overall design, IMO, and some designs call for ostentatious decoration, some for minimalist austerity. And the way the sword feels is a big part of whether I would think it ugly or beautiful, too. You could say that, to me, ugliness in a sword is mainly ungainliness: awkward proportions, counterproductive features, sloppy craftsmanship, bad ergonomics, that sort of thing. So, most swords that would fall under "ugly" in my book are tacky, crude wall hangers rather than real weapons. Probably the least conventionally attractive looking sword/machete-like thing I own is the Varusteleka Skrama, but it's a truly beautiful thing in use!
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Post by randomnobody on Dec 7, 2017 22:21:48 GMT
I thought about that angle, too, MOK. Surprisingly, perhaps, I still come up with the same sword. To one unacquainted, the pictured Khyber I shared is both unappealing in aesthetics and generally poor in shape and form. Most people I've shown it to without a proper introduction ask me what good is a giant kitchen knife? The ones who get to see it up close don't care for the wavy lines, the minimalistic grip, or especially the lack of proper guard. Those who have held it have found it clumsy and awkward. Thus, by all accounts, an unappealing sword. But I've found its charms, and I love it for them. I've pored over it with such scrutiny that I now know every fault and flaw, but I also see the subtle decorations that make it nicer than a first glance would see. I know how hard it is to stop a full swing once it's going, but I also know 1) that's the idea 2) how to direct it 3) how to hold it so it doesn't behave this way. My "prettiest" sword, in my functional collection (wallhangers excluded, that is) is probably Hanwei's William Marshall. Really nice to look at, if a bit boring to the casual viewer, but it's just a terrible sword. Heavy, lousy balance, maneuvers like a sack of rocks, but people think it's nice because it looks nice. Then I hand them the AT 1315 and they get quiet for a minute...and then I'll hand them a kukri, or maybe the antique naoshi, and suddenly we're back on.
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Post by christain on Dec 8, 2017 9:13:07 GMT
As already been said---None of my swords are 'ugly', but there's one that's 'less pretty' than the rest. My Hanwei Rhinelander. Some may disagree, but I wish it either had two side rings or none at all. Also, the pommel looks like a lightbulb. The blade---purely awesome. Scabbard---Meh. Okay, I guess. I can live with the one side ring guard, but that pommel is just butt-ugly. Hanwei could have dressed it up *just a little bit*. I may take my Dremel to it and add some embellishment one of these days. People who see it don't really look at the pommel once the blade comes out.
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