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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 10, 2024 3:38:37 GMT
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Post by blairbob on Feb 11, 2024 13:57:34 GMT
for some reason your HEIC images aren't displaying. i found this: heictojpg.com/
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Post by blairbob on Feb 11, 2024 14:00:00 GMT
Here they are in jpg. There might be a drastic loss in quality from changing file formats. looks nice. I mean, the blade is shiny and being S5 there isn't much to see besides a yokote. The leather does look nice.
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Post by kclee008 on Feb 11, 2024 15:48:38 GMT
Looks nice! Congrats!
How sharp is yours? I’m considering one of these or one of shadow dancers S5’s. Seems like good value for the money in terms of a workhorse cutter.
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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 12, 2024 2:07:14 GMT
Here they are in jpg. There might be a drastic loss in quality from changing file formats. looks nice. I mean, the blade is shiny and being S5 there isn't much to see besides a yokote. The leather does look nice. Awesome, thank very much! It’s been about six or seven years since I’ve been on here, and I used to know how to put pictures and videos, and all kinds of stuff up in the same post without any problem at all. Now I’m just fortunate if I can remember how to login 😅 That is a great website too, so I appreciate that as well. To be honest, I bought this sword for the blade. Not there’s anything wrong with the furniture (the leather wrap is really comfortable) it’s just that I would like to change certain things, and not be insulted by the fact that I paid as much as I did, and they didn’t even include Buffalo horn parts at all, which is kind of a big deal to me. I’ve had $300 swords before that payed more attention to detail, but again the blade is worth the money, even if it just has a mirror polish. I just bought a Heavy Dao (sx105v) from them, and I think the blade is like 1.75” wide, so there’ll be some heavy duty cutting in the near future! Check out all of their inventory. They have over 500 katanas just in the store, ranging from $75-$1k+ so they’re worth the look! rvakatana.com The new stuff is S5 Longswords, sx105v Longswords, and sx105v double ringed arming swords. All right, I’m gonna stop right there because I’m starting to sound like a bloody commercial! lol
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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 12, 2024 2:31:33 GMT
Looks nice! Congrats! How sharp is yours? I’m considering one of these or one of shadow dancers S5’s. Seems like good value for the money in terms of a workhorse cutter. Thanks, but I really bought it for the blade. that’s not to knock the furniture that’s on there, I just had a different project in mind for the blade. The sharpness is “passable,” I guess. I’m still going to buy a leather strop, but the owner of RVA Katana John is nice enough to talk me through what I need to do. The blade is a major league workhorse from what I’ve seen so far, if that helps at all?
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Post by blairbob on Feb 12, 2024 5:49:32 GMT
Yes, I'm very familiar with them as I'm on their discord and shoot the semprini with Scott on occasion besides train along their Saturday Iai classes though it's been awhile since I've been sick for a month. (made like one day maybe two, definitely decided to sleep in on some other days)
I'm leaning towards their Practical Tachi but definitely see how you might expect buffalo horn parts on the saya at that price point.
They haven't had one for awhile, but they did have a Viking sword from CHF made of S5. Way back, sold before I ever saw it.
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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 12, 2024 6:07:29 GMT
Yes, I'm very familiar with them as I'm on their discord and shoot the semprini with Scott on occasion besides train along their Saturday Iai classes though it's been awhile since I've been sick for a month. (made like one day maybe two, definitely decided to sleep in on some other days) I'm leaning towards their Practical Tachi but definitely see how you might expect buffalo horn parts on the saya at that price point. They haven't had one for awhile, but they did have a Viking sword from CHF made of S5. Way back, sold before I ever saw it. Oh okay, so you know they are pretty cool dudes. I catch their live streams and unboxings when they have them. A Viking sword in S5 would be pretty B.A for sure! Check out the sx105v double-ringed arming swords. They look better quality than some Albion’s I’ve seen. I would have snatched up the sx105v Longsword, but I literally just bought two Longswords on KOA a few days before I saw Cloudhammer’s, and they are Longswords that I have been waiting a long time for to get restocked. Their Tachi are really nice. Have you seen some of the crazy long/curved nagamaki’s that they have?
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Post by blairbob on Feb 13, 2024 3:28:40 GMT
i don't watch every live unboxing or cutting demo they have but I've pretty much seen everything they have posted on their pages (they are integrating it with RVA rn).
recently started following what they post on FB.
would be interesting if they ever made unmounted jumonji yari or naginata blades but not likely. John says sometimes they make a lot of things just to see if they can do it and determine whether its viable to do economically.
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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 13, 2024 23:13:42 GMT
i don't watch every live unboxing or cutting demo they have but I've pretty much seen everything they have posted on their pages (they are integrating it with RVA rn). recently started following what they post on FB. would be interesting if they ever made unmounted jumonji yari or naginata blades but not likely. John says sometimes they make a lot of things just to see if they can do it and determine whether its viable to do economically. It’s ironic that you say that, because John just showed a wakizashi looking blade, and he said it was originally a naginata blade that had been turned into a wakizashi. It had a 3” kissaki, and the blade geometry was different as well. I believe he said it was an antique anyways, so who knows what happens to things over a few hundred years??
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Post by blairbob on Feb 14, 2024 7:49:21 GMT
Naginata were often cut down into wakazashi. The sugata is known as Naginata-naoshi, one of my favorite Sugata besides Shobu Zukuri and U no Kubi Zukuri. At some point I liked O-kissaku in Shinogi Zukuri and grew to just preferring the boshi without yokote.
Getting back to it, a lot of swords were cut down. Which sorta makes since given how expensive they were back then rather than buying a new blade. It's something of a travesty though.
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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 15, 2024 5:10:00 GMT
Naginata were often cut down into wakazashi. The sugata is known as Naginata-naoshi, one of my favorite Sugata besides Shobu Zukuri and U no Kubi Zukuri. At some point I liked O-kissaku in Shinogi Zukuri and grew to just preferring the boshi without yokote. Getting back to it, a lot of swords were cut down. Which sorta makes since given how expensive they were back then rather than buying a new blade. It's something of a travesty though. Thats funny you say that, I have two custom katana, one Shobu Zukuri and the other with an Okissaki. I love that profile as well, especially for stabbing & cutting targets! That really is a shame that they were cut down like that. I wonder how many famous/infamous blades were ruined like that?
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Post by izzy on Feb 15, 2024 9:44:07 GMT
Naginata were often cut down into wakazashi. The sugata is known as Naginata-naoshi, one of my favorite Sugata besides Shobu Zukuri and U no Kubi Zukuri. At some point I liked O-kissaku in Shinogi Zukuri and grew to just preferring the boshi without yokote. Getting back to it, a lot of swords were cut down. Which sorta makes since given how expensive they were back then rather than buying a new blade. It's something of a travesty though. Thats funny you say that, I have two custom katana, one Shobu Zukuri and the other with an Okissaki. I love that profile as well, especially for stabbing & cutting targets! That really is a shame that they were cut down like that. I wonder how many famous/infamous blades were ruined like that? Maybe salvaged for a good reason.
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Post by larason2 on Feb 15, 2024 18:14:42 GMT
The Japanese are famous for meticulously following laws. Historically, laws came and went that regulated sword length fairly frequently, with the most common being regulation of sword length. A lot of those cut down swords happened at the beginning of the Edo period, when new laws were introduced to discourage violence. Common people could not carry Katana length swords, but a lot of them had them, so they dutifully took them to their smiths to have them shortened so their owners would be in compliance with the laws. The same happened for Naginata, etc. In a way it is a shame that it was done, but thanks to that we have a lot of sword fragments at reasonable prices to learn polishing, and the blades at least were generally preserved as wakizashi and tanto.
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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 15, 2024 23:53:02 GMT
The Japanese are famous for meticulously following laws. Historically, laws came and went that regulated sword length fairly frequently, with the most common being regulation of sword length. A lot of those cut down swords happened at the beginning of the Edo period, when new laws were introduced to discourage violence. Common people could not carry Katana length swords, but a lot of them had them, so they dutifully took them to their smiths to have them shortened so their owners would be in compliance with the laws. The same happened for Naginata, etc. In a way it is a shame that it was done, but thanks to that we have a lot of sword fragments at reasonable prices to learn polishing, and the blades at least were generally preserved as wakizashi and tanto. I still love the fact that women were trained to use Naginata, and I think it is still taught in present times.
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Post by blairbob on Feb 16, 2024 6:09:04 GMT
yes. Naginata-do is a thing and is trained a lot by women but Naginata is still trained in some Koryu. Historically would have been longer with beefier blades but that rarely is represented when training with wooden weapons. Usually it's just longer than rokushaku bo with a blade at the end so more like 7 shaku just like many training yari.
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Post by Ramses1079 on Feb 17, 2024 4:37:28 GMT
yes. Naginata-do is a thing and is trained a lot by women but Naginata is still trained in some Koryu. Historically would have been longer with beefier blades but that rarely is represented when training with wooden weapons. Usually it's just longer than rokushaku bo with a blade at the end so more like 7 shaku just like many training yari. I don’t picture training with a yari to be as simple as swinging a katana or a nodachi/odachi. It seems like a more specialized weapon, somewhat like polearm type weapons throughout Europe were.
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Post by blairbob on Feb 17, 2024 8:53:33 GMT
For the rank and file, it's just point and stab.
Based on my experience in Koryu, it is far more complicated but it's not as complicated as the Naginata though I suppose it would be if the yari blade is huge or a kamayari, jumonjiyari. Something more peculiar than just your typical spearhead that's 3-12 sun/inches.
I'm reading ashigaru yari were 5-6m and likely just used in formation (especially by Oda Nobunaga) and these sorta became popular after the Mongol armies used long pikes in formation. "Samurai" yari were up to 9-10 shaku, which also makes sense if you were riding on horses like European knights.
Even if you hold a rokushaku yari toward the end, it only extends about 4.5 shaku from your lead foot or so. Which is more distance than most swords, but still rather close.
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Post by izzy on Feb 17, 2024 19:17:01 GMT
The Japanese are famous for meticulously following laws. Historically, laws came and went that regulated sword length fairly frequently, with the most common being regulation of sword length. A lot of those cut down swords happened at the beginning of the Edo period, when new laws were introduced to discourage violence. Common people could not carry Katana length swords, but a lot of them had them, so they dutifully took them to their smiths to have them shortened so their owners would be in compliance with the laws. The same happened for Naginata, etc. In a way it is a shame that it was done, but thanks to that we have a lot of sword fragments at reasonable prices to learn polishing, and the blades at least were generally preserved as wakizashi and tanto. Thank you for the history...my thought was about broken swords being repurposed...but changing laws leading to mass compliance seems like the logical explanation for most of them.
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