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Post by Yagoro on Apr 26, 2022 1:11:10 GMT
Besides wallhangers, what is the worst sword you have ever owned? For me, its a sword from Hanbon with the worst saya rub Ive ever seen. To add to this, the habaki was fit pretty badly. Everything else about it was decently good.
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Post by JH Lee on Apr 26, 2022 1:22:52 GMT
Off the top of my head... some craptana from cheness way back in the day.
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Post by nddave on Apr 26, 2022 2:25:18 GMT
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Post by Elrikk on Apr 26, 2022 2:45:32 GMT
DSA Sage
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Post by treeslicer on Apr 26, 2022 4:22:57 GMT
Some rattail tang swept-hilt rapier-like-object with a cool hilt, but a blade that was neither properly shaped, nor sharpened, nor heat-treated, that I even forget where I got it. I put the hilt on a decent Windlass Scottish basket-hilt broadsword blade I had laying around, and cut the original blade up for arrowheads or something (this was like 30 years ago). I still have the composite cut-and-thrust with a scabbard I made for it, and sometimes wear it to SCA events.
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Post by Arlequin on Apr 26, 2022 11:17:42 GMT
JKoo custom. blade is heavy and unbalanced, tsuka feels off and the tsuba came bent lol. Theres a jian I bought on ebay, but the only problem is the handle construction, the blade itself is actually pretty nice
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Apr 26, 2022 13:16:53 GMT
Aluminum blade Ninja-to
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Post by haon on Apr 26, 2022 16:35:22 GMT
I'd like to add a John Lee ikusa. Blunt for sparring, which wasn't the problem. Felt lighter than my Jkoo custom, despite being heavier, but tsuba came with rusted pits, habaki was scratched, and the ito could be shifted easily 1cm, a bit further if you put strength into ito. Also, my Jkoo custom, in retrospect. And my (obligatory) very first sword, a wallhanger:D
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Post by nddave on Apr 26, 2022 16:55:03 GMT
Nice, one of the 80s BlackBelt Magazine mail orders? If so I dreamed for one of those when I was little, lol.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Apr 26, 2022 18:31:40 GMT
I don't know if it's the worst or best. I have a gladius that I bought about 30 years ago at a mall ninja store (actually at the mall). It didn't come with a scabbard, was dull, over proportioned and wavy. I intended to use it until it broke or play with it or whatever, but I still have it as of April 2022 and it's showing no signs of breaking or wearing out whatsoever. Just a thick chunk of sharpened steel. I guess that also makes it the "best" sword I have?
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Post by Yagoro on Apr 26, 2022 19:58:10 GMT
I don't know if it's the worst or best. I have a gladius that I bought about 30 years ago at a mall ninja store (actually at the mall). It didn't come with a scabbard, was dull, over proportioned and wavy. I intended to use it until it broke or play with it or whatever, but I still have it as of April 2022 and it's showing no signs of breaking or wearing out whatsoever. Just a thick chunk of sharpened steel. I guess that also makes it the "best" sword I have? Mind taking any pics of it? I would assume those mall wallhangers would fall apart naturally after 5 years
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Post by Drunk Merchant on Apr 26, 2022 20:03:59 GMT
A nightmare of a Shinto katana Showa22 sold. It was a legit katana but he or someone hybrid polished it and since they were too unskilled to do a finish polish used Ferric Chloride to bring out the hamon.
A real nightmare with bad shape and acid stained blade. Might have been worth up to 2K if he had kept it in old polish but after his butcher job not even half of that. He hid the damage with zoomed out low res photos. Mismactched showa Meiji fittings too.
Thankfully eBay gives good recourse and I was able to force him to do a return since he’d concealed his amateur polish. Other people say they’ve gotten wrecked swords from him so watch out. With the prices he charges it’s a ripoff.
Beware the acid since if it’s been stained the blade is full of micropitting and chlorine rusts inside the pits that will eat it inside out.
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Post by treeslicer on Apr 26, 2022 20:26:57 GMT
I don't know if it's the worst or best. I have a gladius that I bought about 30 years ago at a mall ninja store (actually at the mall). It didn't come with a scabbard, was dull, over proportioned and wavy. I intended to use it until it broke or play with it or whatever, but I still have it as of April 2022 and it's showing no signs of breaking or wearing out whatsoever. Just a thick chunk of sharpened steel. I guess that also makes it the "best" sword I have? Without too much effort, one could come up with a short story about how a Roman cast-bronze-hilted gladius (closely resembling later copies) has bounced from one pawn shop or market to another undetected, for around 2,000 years. It would, of course, have had to originally belong to Casca Rufio Longinus...........
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Post by JH Lee on Apr 26, 2022 21:20:13 GMT
Pretty sure that showa22 uses some kind of software to shill his auctions. There's simply no way that his swords consistently climb that quickly in prices.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Apr 27, 2022 1:14:56 GMT
Aluminum blade Ninja-to koo Nice, one of the 80s BlackBelt Magazine mail orders? If so I dreamed for one of those when I was little, lol. Yup, I saved up for it😁😁
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Post by nddave on Apr 27, 2022 1:19:15 GMT
Nice, one of the 80s BlackBelt Magazine mail orders? If so I dreamed for one of those when I was little, lol. Yup, I saved up for it😁😁 I loved those old adds and all the cool stuff in them. Of course it was all junk but still for an 80s kid enamored by martial arts movies and Ninja those were the KultofAthena of the time!
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Post by treeslicer on Apr 27, 2022 2:43:15 GMT
Pretty sure that showa22 uses some kind of software to shill his auctions. There's simply no way that his swords consistently climb that quickly in prices. Not necessarily. I suspect that some well-established eBay sellers still use evil minions.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Apr 27, 2022 14:17:29 GMT
Without too much effort, one could come up with a short story about how a Roman cast-bronze-hilted gladius (closely resembling later copies) has bounced from one pawn shop or market to another undetected, for around 2,000 years. It would, of course, have had to originally belong to Casca Rufio Longinus........... Sure, that sounds plausible enough. There was a story recently about an art forger who fooled galleries for 15 years with excellent fakes. He was very careful to use authentic materials, then sold the stuff to a third party who made up a BS provenance story that sounded really plausible. One of the forgeries sold for $300k. I'm certain that I could create a backstory for a mall ninja gladius. Just don't question any part of the story or ask for evidence.
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Post by alientude on Apr 27, 2022 15:18:29 GMT
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Post by MichaelRS on Apr 27, 2022 18:29:12 GMT
Besides wallhangers, what is the worst sword you have ever owned? For me, its a sword from Hanbon with the worst saya rub Ive ever seen. To add to this, the habaki was fit pretty badly. Everything else about it was decently good. That's really unfortunate. I have 6 Hanbon swords and indeed most are slightly "off" in one aspect or another. However, based on reports I've read and seen by users of other production swords from other companies or "forges", with a similar business model/price point, it's nothing worse and they, at least mine, remain perfectly serviceable.
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