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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 5:01:56 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! That’s the only thing it has going for it is that it is short so less chance to fracture. Honestly idek if they heat treated it as it was like $10 lol. For what it is honestly I can’t say it is to bad. I certainly couldn’t make one that nice for $10
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 7:21:56 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 I've used the thing to chop wood tbh. It's gone through hell. It doesn't flex or hold an edge well. But it didn't break But if you want a low cost amazing tool, check out the condor kukri machete. Best tool I've ever owned
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Post by Jordan Williams on Jan 24, 2020 8:11:02 GMT
That's the very same model I started with, at about the same age. Got it for $25 at the now long defunct Deep River Armory in Houston. I recall that it handled well for studying saber. Good sword. Wish I still had it. Man, America is really great isn't it. Never would I ever find a dope saber for that low of a price. Everything is jacked up to a high cost luxury item in Canada 😂 You just have to know where to look and who to ask, and save up some cash to get a good example that will keep it's worth. Some pretty cheap stuff in Canada - and Pino for example has a very affordable sabre for sale.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 8:16:53 GMT
Man, America is really great isn't it. Never would I ever find a dope saber for that low of a price. Everything is jacked up to a high cost luxury item in Canada 😂 You just have to know where to look and who to ask, and save up some cash to get a good example that will keep it's worth. Some pretty cheap stuff in Canada - and Pino for example has a very affordable sabre for sale. for 25$? Sadly,i can't afford anything right now lol. Was considering asking my sister for her Kris Cutlery 29 to put this cotton tail custom tsuba on
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Post by Jordan Williams on Jan 24, 2020 8:18:33 GMT
You just have to know where to look and who to ask, and save up some cash to get a good example that will keep it's worth. Some pretty cheap stuff in Canada - and Pino for example has a very affordable sabre for sale. for 25$? Sadly,i can't afford anything right now lol. Was considering asking my sister for her Kris Cutlery 29 to put this cotton tail custom tsuba on You won't find anything these days for 25 bucks without getting lucky at a yard sale.
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Post by treeslicer on Jan 24, 2020 8:38:12 GMT
for 25$? Sadly,i can't afford anything right now lol. Was considering asking my sister for her Kris Cutlery 29 to put this cotton tail custom tsuba on You won't find anything these days for 25 bucks without getting lucky at a yard sale. It's not luck as much as an early start and route planning from classified ads. Around here, professional buyers hit yard and estate sales at the crack of dawn looking for treasure. For example, a buddy of mine clears around $1500 a month buying jewelry for peanuts and picking out the gold chains and such that the sellers didn't know was there. I've found a lot of expensive tools, black-powder firearms and other sporting goods, and musical instruments cheap that way. Heirs seem to seldom know what the folks actually had, or just don't care these days.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Jan 24, 2020 13:37:35 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 Which one are you talking about, the one in the color picture or black and white ? Actually for a five year old that sword was cool especially after I took the rubber suction cup off the tip. Don't know why after that no one wanted to play sword fight with me.
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 15:01:13 GMT
That’s cool! Actually a nice looking blade Which one are you talking about, the one in the color picture or black and white ? Actually for a five year old that sword was cool especially after I took the rubber suction cup off the tip. Don't know why after that no one wanted to play sword fight with me. The color one XD but at the age of 5 a plastic lightsaber was the coolest thing so I can get that. Now for the real question, you totally meant to take the rubber off and mess people up with that sword didn’t you XD
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Jan 24, 2020 16:29:18 GMT
My first couple 'swords' were fantasy wall hangers and we even bought a couple for the boys to decorate their bedrooms, after having talk with them about the things not being real swords and not try to use them... THEN we tumbled down the rabbit hole of the real swords world.
And now everything is different.
All wall hangers have donned to our eldest to decorate his bedroom. Both or sons have real medieval weapons 'decorating' their bedrooms - Windlass warhammer, mace, hewing spear and set of armor building up. Even though we gifted those in the last couple years, darn I'm jealous of those, need to get my own eventually!
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 16:33:38 GMT
My first couple 'swords' were fantasy wall hangers and we even bought a couple for the boys to decorate their bedrooms, after having talk with them about the things not being real swords and not try to use them... THEN we tumbled down the rabbit hole of the real swords world.
And now everything is different.
All wall hangers have donned to our eldest to decorate his bedroom. Both or sons have real medieval weapons 'decorating' their bedrooms - Windlass warhammer, mace, hewing spear and set of armor building up. Even though we gifted those in the last couple years, darn I'm jealous of those, need to get my own eventually! I wish my family was more into swords, my dad likes them but expects products to be like less than $100 for swords 😆
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Jan 24, 2020 16:50:24 GMT
You can have a spear for under 100$ if you don't mind some manual work: Along with a good hardwood shaft from a utility store.
Thats what what our eldest got for Christmas, will try and take pics to make a review next week.
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Post by christain on Jan 24, 2020 17:29:27 GMT
I just got a BudK catalog in the mail and didn't even request it...out of the blue. The only thing I saw in it that I MIGHT order is some military wool blankets. Everything else is absolute BULL-CRAP. I remember my first 'sword'----a cheap, stainless, Pakistani-made, poorly done impression of a US Cavalry Saber. I was like 12 years old, and at the time....I thought it was the coolest thing EVER. Many years later, I wound up cutting the blade into about 5 pieces and making knives for my friends. They still have them. The steel in the blade must have been pretty good, because I wore out two grinder wheels while doing these blades. The rest of it...trash.
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Post by reptaronice1 on Jan 24, 2020 21:27:45 GMT
I just got a BudK catalog in the mail and didn't even request it...out of the blue. The only thing I saw in it that I MIGHT order is some military wool blankets. Everything else is absolute BULL-CRAP. I remember my first 'sword'----a cheap, stainless, Pakistani-made, poorly done impression of a US Cavalry Saber. I was like 12 years old, and at the time....I thought it was the coolest thing EVER. Many years later, I wound up cutting the blade into about 5 pieces and making knives for my friends. They still have them. The steel in the blade must have been pretty good, because I wore out two grinder wheels while doing these blades. The rest of it...trash. Ya they are junk now a days
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