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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 23, 2020 3:48:39 GMT
This is what I started with from BudK back like 4-5 years ago. Good ol stainless steel mini short sword.
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Post by randomnobody on Jan 23, 2020 3:57:41 GMT
Oh god, those things. I wanted one back when I was your age, lol. (decades ago now)
I wonder if the quality is any better now than they used to be... (Probably not)
My first "sword" was some fantasy wallhanger thing with what I later learned (need I say how?) was a hollow plastic grip and hollow guard and pommel; not to mention the nasty "tang" it had. I still have it, along with all the others I bought over the years, just to remind myself and inform others that just because it looks like a duck, doesn't mean it is.
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 23, 2020 4:16:24 GMT
Oh god, those things. I wanted one back when I was your age, lol. (decades ago now) I wonder if the quality is any better now than they used to be... (Probably not) My first "sword" was some fantasy wallhanger thing with what I later learned (need I say how?) was a hollow plastic grip and hollow guard and pommel; not to mention the nasty "tang" it had. I still have it, along with all the others I bought over the years, just to remind myself and inform others that just because it looks like a duck, doesn't mean it is. I doubt they are any better now, that one is just a milled and sharpened piece of stainless steel with a shoe lace wrap lol. The only thing this one has is a full tang as the wrap is literally just over the tang. Still expect it to snap at some point. May give it to a friend who is not rly into swords so much as fantasy looking blades.
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 23, 2020 4:25:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 17:19:35 GMT
I had one of these too haha. I got it from a friend, and at the time I knew it wasn't functional. But I still found it so cool
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Jan 23, 2020 17:28:36 GMT
My first sword...that I bought was an aluminum Ninja To circa mid 1980's. And of course, I broke it.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jan 23, 2020 17:48:02 GMT
My first sword...that I bought was an aluminum Ninja To circa mid 1980's. And of course, I broke it. I remember buying black ninjato shaped bokken periodically from the advertisements in the back of ninja-themed "martial arts" magazines in the 1980's. ...also shuriken. My brother and I would recreate the fight scenes we had watched in the various terrible ninja movies (who didn't want to be Sho Kosugi in those halcyon days?), and throw steel shuriken at each other until someone got hurt enough to ruin the fun for everyone. I think I still have one of the "ninja" shuriken belt pouches in a duffel bag somewhere.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Jan 23, 2020 19:39:42 GMT
Actually my first sword was a pre WW2 Japanese NCO sword I got when I was about 12 years old. Well unless you want to count this one.
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Post by treeslicer on Jan 23, 2020 20:20:08 GMT
Actually my first sword was a pre WW2 Japanese NCO sword I got when I was about 12 years old. That's the very same model I started with, at about the same age. Got it for $25 at the now long defunct Deep River Armory in Houston. I recall that it handled well for studying saber. Good sword. Wish I still had it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 20:24:22 GMT
Actually my first sword was a pre WW2 Japanese NCO sword I got when I was about 12 years old. That's the very same model I started with, at about the same age. Got it for $25 at the now long defunct Deep River Armory in Houston. I recall that it handled well for studying saber. Good sword. Wish I still had it. Man, America is really great isn't it. Never would I ever find a dope saber for that low of a price. Everything is jacked up to a high cost luxury item in Canada 😂
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Post by treeslicer on Jan 23, 2020 20:32:16 GMT
That's the very same model I started with, at about the same age. Got it for $25 at the now long defunct Deep River Armory in Houston. I recall that it handled well for studying saber. Good sword. Wish I still had it. Man, America is really great isn't it. Never would I ever find a dope saber for that low of a price. Everything is jacked up to a high cost luxury item in Canada 😂 Things have changed more than a bit since I got that sword in the 1960's. You couldn't do that now.
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 4:09:51 GMT
I had one of these too haha. I got it from a friend, and at the time I knew it wasn't functional. But I still found it so cool It will cut water bottles lol. It would break under anything harder though
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 4:10:34 GMT
My first sword...that I bought was an aluminum Ninja To circa mid 1980's. And of course, I broke it. Oof that’s worse than stainless steel
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 4:11:27 GMT
My first sword...that I bought was an aluminum Ninja To circa mid 1980's. And of course, I broke it. I remember buying black ninjato shaped bokken periodically from the advertisements in the back of ninja-themed "martial arts" magazines in the 1980's. ...also shuriken. My brother and I would recreate the fight scenes we had watched in the various terrible ninja movies (who didn't want to be Sho Kosugi in those halcyon days?), and throw steel shuriken at each other until someone got hurt enough to ruin the fun for everyone. I think I still have one of the "ninja" shuriken belt pouches in a duffel bag somewhere. That moment you realize ninjato are not real swords in history lol
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 4:12:05 GMT
Actually my first sword was a pre WW2 Japanese NCO sword I got when I was about 12 years old. Well unless you want to count this one. That’s cool! Actually a nice looking blade
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jan 24, 2020 4:13:51 GMT
I remember buying black ninjato shaped bokken periodically from the advertisements in the back of ninja-themed "martial arts" magazines in the 1980's. ...also shuriken. My brother and I would recreate the fight scenes we had watched in the various terrible ninja movies (who didn't want to be Sho Kosugi in those halcyon days?), and throw steel shuriken at each other until someone got hurt enough to ruin the fun for everyone. I think I still have one of the "ninja" shuriken belt pouches in a duffel bag somewhere. That moment you realize ninjato are not real swords in history lol That wasn't even a consideration in the US of the 1980's, especially in the under 10 set.
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 4:18:07 GMT
That moment you realize ninjato are not real swords in history lol That wasn't even a consideration in the US of the 1980's, especially in the under 10 set. Honestly I never even knew what a ninjato was until I played some samurai games
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Post by Lord Newport on Jan 24, 2020 4:29:29 GMT
Everyone has to start somewhere. My first sword was a M1860 light cavalry saber made by Mansfield&Lamb dated 1865. First Asian sword was a Paul Chen orchid katana. First medieval blade was a Albion Mark Crusader type XII. My first Roman blade came fromRaven Arms in England...A Fulham pattern gladius.
I went on to production and custom ATrim's and the Albion NextGen and Museum line swords and now some custom blades in process with the Polish swordsmith's in the medieval category. Bugei's, Hataya Kotetsu's, a couple gendiato's and Howard Clark's in the Asian category and a custom Roman Pompeii gladius from Mark Morrow. I have a growing collection of Mansfield&Lamb M1860 as I try to collect every inspector for every year.
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 4:33:56 GMT
Everyone has to start somewhere. My first sword was a M1860 light cavalry saber made by Mansfield&Lamb dated. 1856. Awesome stuff to start with lol. I say I started with that budk stuff but my brother owned a stainless steel replica of anduril when I was rly young like 3 and I played with that a lot
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jan 24, 2020 4:57:15 GMT
I'd say it's still a functional sword. It's not impossible to make a usable short sword blade out of stainless steel if it's heat treated right (means soft). My first sword was a spanish wallhanger sword as a gift from my brother. Of course the tang broke!
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