Has a video game ever inspired you to buy something?

Did this too, I wanted to be ripped like Kazuya

Did it come with a matching fedora, faggot?

>He doesn't buy a Nihonto that is Tokubetsu and above
Shame on you

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lol

>filename

Well done, user. 9/10

:::Teleports behind you:::
Its a lovely blade user, now, can it handle Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu?

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I've bought clothes based on Sims 4 outfits I've made.

>it's tape
>mitsuwugi
>it's soooOOO SHINY (he hasn't even unsheathed his Hanwei Practical Katana
>WATCH IT

It’s a meet up where people swap wives and girlfriends, dude. How do you not know this?

Most weapons needed to be made cheap back then sweaty

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>not even daiamahagane grade
I hereby name your letter opener: Kusobimaru

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Real talk though, how would I go about getting a real nice katana?

A real good one you need to get from a Japanese smith who folds them 3 million times.

How much money do you want to spend? If you wanna go big then Nihonto dot com is a good site

You can't if you're not native Japanese. And even then it takes 10 grand or more.

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>shitty ass acid etched "damascus"
Japanese swords are supposed to have hamons you big fat faggot. Take that mall ninja bullshit and shove it up your ugly ass.

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If you want look only then buying a training Iaito is a good way too, lot of jap company sell them like Tozando

>cuts quite nicely
Bruh, the end of that box is clearly ripped. It couldn't even get through cardboard smoothly in a cut. I'm sorry but your sword is shit.

cringe

>tfw you will never own a top class katana
It hurt

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I think thats a Tachi

Why tho? You're most likely a looner, so you'll never get the chance to show your fancy steel piece to any guest (like they even notice the diference in the first place).
I completely doubt youll ever get a chance to use it, but if you do there is no difference bethewn a hand made sword and a industrial made one nowadays. This goes for straight european style swords aswell.

$10k and up.
But if you just want to play around with a sharp object just get a pattern welded spring steel. That's better than the real ones anyway.

Order one from a sword store?
>under 100 - literally a toy, basically a big butter knife
>100 to 250 - can cut a bit, but soft steel will dull quickly
>250 to 500 - still machine made with obvious cost cutting, but will have better steel
>500 to 1500 - genuinely good stuff with excellent quality and a full tang
>1500+ - at this point you can probably get a traditionally handmade sword for extra authenticity

>making fun of mall ninja fedora lords
>reddit
no u

>I completely doubt youll ever get a chance to use it,

Katanas are specifically made to cut up random boxes and other objects

youtube.com/watch?v=sFs8SRB3zWg

>not getting the best vidya katana

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youtube.com/watch?v=Bz8AqIiFHig

Made me laugh, thanks.

Can you just walk around with a sword in America? Based

Why did blue shirt man try to grab the sword?

I love these kinds of videos. Subways are fuckin wild.

Absolutely based, i miss him

You can walk around with a gun, and what is a sword if not a short ranged gun?

youtube.com/watch?v=jb3UobSZl34

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RIP

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These retarded subhumans make us real samurais and part time ninjas look bad

A longer katana yes yes

>that filename
nice.

kys newfag zoomer

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Is that the same guy that drowned while going in a boat with a minor for "sword practices"?

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He lived long enough to become the villain,

F

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There's no such thing.
Nip weapons have always been garbage

>A samurai-type sword was found strapped to the kayak when it was recovered
Life isn't fair

how the FUCK does he do that
swords are so heavy to twirl like that

My roommate in college had granpa's war trophy jap officer's sword. Pretty cool.

they were good weapon for thier purpose in japanese warfare

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youtube.com/watch?v=jb3UobSZl34
Still prime internet kino after all these years.

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That flourish on the sheath will always be the best

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA holy fuck

You have to pay like 2000$ to get a hand-folded sword from the land of the rising sun. This is german damascus folded zero times.

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>tsuka-maki style wraps as clothing
Never fucking thought about that

Watch out OP, other katana wielders in your area can now legally duel you to the death.

Can someone post it again? It has been too long

It's easy to do if you know how it's done.

see

teach us, sensei

I bought a recurve bow because of the TF2 huntsman. I ended up enjoying archery and bought myself a compound bow afterwards

Thing about this video is that even though everyone in it has sub 60 iq you can tell they're all happy enough as a family

that's really cool, actually. got any pics or tips for anyone who might be interested in that kind of thing?

>2000$

that's.....surprisingly cheap

>Start dating qt artist girl, she's honestly way out of my league
>She's cleaning out her room and selling old junk
>"How much do you think I can get for this katana?"
>Why do you have a katana?
>"I don't know..."

mfw my girlfriend is the female version of the katana/fedora meme

amazon.com/Handmade-Sword-Functional-Tempered-Scabbard/dp/B003X1LW32

DMC5 Yamato is sexier

Normal katanas are about 800 grams to 1 kg, so they are way lighter than most people assume.
This move is done by letting the sword drop into your last two fingers like pic related

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What game? She's cute

You guys may laugh at him but it look like they are having a really good time

From here you use your middle and index to hold the sword.

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Would NTR

At this point you transfer to your index and thumb like so.

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twitter.com/navigavi/status/1118147984946950144

That guy was cool, a fighter of justice. We will miss him.

And from here, you can hold the sword with the mineuchi (flat end) towards you. from here, you can just lean the sword against your forearm and guide it into the scabbard.

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If you add an empty wrist swipe before all this, you get the famous Kairo-san shuffle. The wrist swipe also helps because it makes the sword help the whole movement.

are you wearing a bathrobe

Just get gendaito from gaijin makers, modern metallurgy results in a superior piece anyway.

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Long sleeve sweater jacket.

Oh that not what i mean, i live in Vietnam so owning a sword here is illegal

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Arigatou sensei

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wii music, pic related

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interesting lesson, I feel like my katana is like 5lbs just in the handle alone though.. I got long skinny fingers makes twirling anything this large pretty hard.. will work on it though

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Holy kek all these edgy autists buying poorly made swords. Don't hurt yourself. My friend was killed by a nigger holding a katana. He impaled him in his kidney.

nice didgeridoo, bro

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Just do it slowly and be safe about it. I would seriously suggest doing it with something blunt at first.

Just say you use it for rice farming.
When was the last time a person was arrested for having a sword?

LANKEY user

Sure. Resident Evil drove me into the gun hobby. I spent around $1500-$2000 to make a Samurai Edge. I also bought an HK VP70z, a Makarov, and a Mauser HSc because they were featured in Resident Evil. That right there is about $3000 in guns just for a silly game.

More pics upon request.

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Are you the user that has a model of Jill's, Wesker's and Chris' gun?

If you're gonna weeb go big.
F

Yes.

Rance

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>arrested
It's more like will got confiscated and fined out of my ass i think

Nope. Not me. I only have Jill's. I have a Beretta 92FS Compact Inox with Samurai Edge grips on it though, if that's what you might be thinking of.

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If you waved it around sure.
doubt the police would even care.

To me katanas are a bigger indication that someone is a weeaboo than anime. Sure, if you like anime you're probably also into katanas but I knew a lot of guys who didn't watch anime and thought they were cool for carrying a $50 wall hanger around town.

Damn, sorry to hear that bro. You could always move to burgerland or somewhere else that doesn't hate outdated weaponry so much eventually though.

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I always watch that fucking Man at Arms youtube channel and want to get into smithing and make this kind of shit.

Posting them anyways since this thread is dying fast.

VP70z (Leon/RE2)

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Makarov

(Revelations 2/RE7)

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And finally, Mauser HSc American Eagle edition

(Ada's gun/RE2 Remake)

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>Game
You wish
I wish

Very impressive. I built Krausers TMP from RE4 out of a B&T mp9, which is unfortunately not really available to buy anymore because they got bought by Steyr. It ended up being one of my favorite range guns I own.

Waiting for a Japanese version of him with a revolver twirling after saving a woman from a gang of criminals

youtube.com/watch?v=iH32vsxY4xE#t=91

oh, and I forgot to mention I put a PEQ-12 laserbox on the side to match the one he has on his gun in the game, and a matching vertical grip.

I remember you, a few days ago in some Sekiro thread you were like "Guys am I retarded, I'm about to spend $500 on a katana" and nobody replied so later I saw "Guys I just bought a katana"

Should've gotten a proper sword

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Now that's something I'd like to see.

the actual materials are cheap I imagine so that's almost completely spent on the smith

jokes on you

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impressive but also slightly painful to see it tested like that

For a compound you want to go to your local sports store and determine your draw length and draw weight, which is the length of how far you pull back the bow and the amount of force needed to pull the bow respectively, and ask a technician to fit it for you. Many bows nowadays come pre-packaged with accessories so you only need to change them out once you get more familiar with the sport and want better gear. There's plenty of youtube tutorials on proper form available for beginners, but the general idea is you want to stay in the same position with every shot. After you get your bow setup you're all set to head over to a range or place some targets in your backyard to start firing on. It's a really easy hobby to get set up on once you buy your bow, the only extra costs I've had after setting everything up was buying some higher quality arrows and some bowstring wax

souls games the only shit out there that did this right, katana are useful but have the lowest durability of all the weapons

The materials are cheap, it's the skills and time of artisans that you pay for.
A top class one require years

now i fully concede katanas would be inferior in materials and structure to a western sword but this is such a retarded test. Of course it's going to get fucked up when the other sword is braced by both the handle and the tip

Ive had a Katana for years
But i did live in Japan for a while

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Who spear chad here?

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Based

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10/10 coverlet

Also have nunchucks and a host of other Karate weapons
I keep these in my belt as a self defense weapon

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>ywn have a knight gf to cuddle with

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Not holding properly

Just to show them

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>I keep these in my belt as a self defense weapon
No, you don't. You're just fishing for replies.

I still can't find any information on how they managed to fit that thing in the staff. Even now drilling a straight hole in a long dowel is hard af.

user don't you think you should be a little more sad about that?

Get a real mans sword.

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> "muh Damascus"
It's just pattern welded/Wootz I can guarantee.

Sick.

I bought a katana years ago and I never regretted it. It’s a nice weapon and is fun to swing around and just hold every now and then

I bought some sardines because of Disgaea 4.

What was his problem?

They don't seem very happy around each other.

Canadian.

A man of his word

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Argument invalid

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For possible gang fights, suas ruas de raiva aqui fora

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i'll always miss you, light rail avenger. i hope your battle with the demon of the lake is going well.

F

Fucking garbage ass pattern welded steel. Gives the chinamen who make those swords clearance to skip 4 steps in >muhNipponSteel because they don't need to segment temper the blade or get that shitty wave hamon on there
That's not damascus, if you had a damascus sword you'd either be the wealthiest pleb on here or bankrupt

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Wootz steel too good for us plebs
Never forget when a grandpa rediscovered legendary damascus forging techniques because he didn't want arabs with the credit

youtube.com/watch?v=OP8PCkcBZU4

Katanas are meant for slashing, not smashing. Of course a thinner sword will break against a thicker one

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requesting edit of sword at 6'0'' and man at 5'11''

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You can walk around with one, sure. There’s no laws against that. Most places you can even walk around with a rifle. Threatening someone with a weapon is extremely illegal though

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Can't even smash

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Also Japanese fighting style is different from the western one
Its all about quick deadly strikes and being able to finish a fight ideally in the first strike
Western style is all about endurance and being able to take a beating, then give it back even harder in the melee so the weapons are built to a different standard

For some like the heavy two hand swords they didn't even need to really sharp

>shit material
>shit quality

you're gonna get your ass shanked tryhard dumbass.
get a knife.

>mikiri counters you

>Brasil
Never mind, I was going to call you autistic but it makes sense that you carry those.

>Sekiro is going to usher in a new age of zoomer weebs
Not like this...

If you pull out a pair of nunchaku on some gangbanger and show off some bruce lee moves, a good majority of pavement apes will be spooked beyond belief
The remaining 20% will pull out their own ninja gear and try to fight you

Nunchucks are the best. This video says the guy is using a baseball bat but it's definitely nunchaku:
youtu.be/C07hiGM_cHw

Also knife is statistically more dangerous for the user than a blunt weapon
And more trouble with the police if you get caught carrying them, worse if you actually stab a guy

Primitives would just throw chunks of rocks at you. I've been in riots, those fuckers can throw those accurately.

where did you get that sword user, it looks nice

ain't Yea Forums weebs lair already?

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yes but wasn't weeaboo literally termed just to make fun of people who do stupid shit like this?

We don't really get many riots here
And I don't purposely put myself in danger
Besides everyone and their mum loves DBZ and shounen anime here

being arrested is second fiddle when you are bleeding and or hemorrhaging to death.
A knife is a better deterrent than a goofy weapon that some people would see as ridiculous and engage in a fight anyways.

This. Always go with the knife.
youtube.com/watch?v=MYwd0Wus5Ik

you mean wapanese.. you newfggt

I font know how to fight well with a knife honestly so its pointless for me to use one
Meanwhile the vast majority of people have no idea how to fight against nunchaku so they become frightened when someone is competent with them

So you're a poser that don't need that shit in the first place.

Man, the 80's surely where wild.

Probably not
I mostly just carry them to practice out in the park

The point is that a knife is better at warding off trouble and would actually do more damage, you don't even need to get good with it, a baby know instinctively how to stab things.
The moment you fuckup in a fight where you have to pull out a weapon, you'd most likely be dead. Literally dead.

Reminder that swords are made from bargain bin dogshit steels. Even the $2000+ ones are made from garbage like:

1060
1566
1095
6150
6160
l6 'bainite' (buzzword)

Actually modern powder steels put all of the above to shame in every single field from toughness to edge retention to corrosion resistance. A sword-sized billet of CPM 3V costs $50~$100 and is vastly stronger than any steel used in swords today.

youtube.com/watch?v=KXt_od8GDO4&feature=youtu.be&t=39

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>$60 Musashi

if you're gonna be a faggot and buy a sword at the very least make sure it's a good one

>stupid shit
like what? I don't buy swords but ain't they just like buying literally anything else? Why are people so triggered by katana?

Fighting with a knife is pretty difficult and not worth the risk
Ideally Id carry a gun

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Fighting against a knife is fucking dangerous dude, i rather fucking run unless i have a gun

Westerners have a huge inferiority complex and katana is a symbol of that.

>visitingtheArchstoneoftheShadowmen.jpg

That works best, but depending on the country the heat it brings is a bit too much.

here's your katana bro

youtube.com/watch?v=DrWXv7e9sZE&feature=youtu.be&t=19

Running is best.
But if you are backed-up and have nowhere to go, better have something in hand.

Return it and buy a Hanwei Practical.

Folded steel is a gimmick. It was useful in ancient times because of impurities and inhomegeneities in steel that are no longer present in modern steel. Folding only introduces air pockets and structural weakness in steel in exchange for making a pretty pattern.

Katanas were made to cut through peasants and shitty inferior Japanese armor

They gained a good reputation because they were only used in Japan and did just that.
If you took a katana to any part of the world you would have gotten fucking killed by a plate armor chad

*kick you off a bridge*

Same issue with knife in many ways
Police are hard on knife crime

This shit is why I can never leave this place, thank you Ken-sama.

only place where it brings heavy attention is britbongland.

>britbongland
Eggs can get you in trouble there too so eh

Let me just stop you right there.

You don't know what you're talking about. Zero swords are made to cut through armor.

European swords are not "armor piercing". You do not cut through mail with a European sword.

Katana were excellent swords, and encounters between sailors and samurai just confirm this:

>A Spanish royal decree of 1609 specifically directed Spanish commanders in the Pacific ‘not to risk the reputation of our arms and state against Japanese soldier'”.
Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879: Noel Perrin, p. 35.

>“In Japan, it was necessary for every man to carry a pistol; but the Japanese [with their swords] invariably got the better of every man carrying one, even when he had it in his hand… …I maintain the great fault in our swords is that they will not cut. Use them as much as you like, unless you have them specially sharpened the night before, they are useless. In the cut, our swords are useless in nine cases out of ten. The Japanese use two-handed swords; if we could use them, I should say cut by all means; for they never want a second cut.”
“On Military Equipment,” Journal of the Royal United Service Institution
cited in Swordsmen of the British Empire

On a technical level, katana were really excellent killing tools. Unlike European swords, they were differentially hardened. This means the whole sword was covered in clay before it was heat treated, but they put very thin clay along the edge, to make it absorb more heat and become harder. As a result, the edge of katana was very hard and could take an extremely sharp edge, while the spine of the sword was still soft and flexible, preventing the sword from breaking under trauma. European swords were almost all "through hardened" - the entire sword was made of soft, flexible steel that wouldn't break, yet couldn't take (or maintain) a sharp edge. Additionally, the curve of katana is excellent for slicing.

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yes you typically didn't attack armored opponents with the blade, but you could at the very least flip them around and beat them to death with it

>this is a german damascus folded zero times
Yeah, I can tell.

If you already have good damascus, you don't need to fold like pleb.
The million folds are already there.

Oh, and before anyone brings up steel quality, you should know that Japanese and European steel were both only as good as the smith wanted them to be.

Japanese ORE was inferior. Most Japanese steel was made with iron sands rather than ore, which have a lower iron extraction rate compared to ore. So, it took more sand to make steel. The final steel could have as much iron as the smith desired - it was just a matter of smelting more sand.

Steel folding was not an indicator of bad steel. In fact, folding was only done on the highest quality blades. Folding was done on European blades. It was a technique done to improve the carbide homogeneity of the steel, not to compensate for "poor steel quality" - today we take still take measures to improve homogeneity in high quality steel (powderizing + sintering)

What are these from, some random image set or a game?

Fuck off, weeb.

Damascus steel is two different types of steel (usually a stainless steel and a carbon steel) folded and oxidized so as to highlight the differences in lustre between the two steels. You cannot make damascus steel without folding.

Damascus steel is inferior to uniform steel in cutting ability, wear resistance, toughness, etc. It is inferior in all ways. It only looks better. It's an aesthetic concern.

The highest-quality steel for a blade is modern powder steel like CPM 3V. See

...

Friendly reminder that polearms > straight swords > katanas

I wonder when the razor blade caps are making a comeback.

In what way do you consider European straight swords superior to katana?

Yeah. Fortnite, pic Related.

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based

Polearms were great in a group, on a level field, in the open, outside.
Not so great outside those conditions.
Straight swords are pretty dogshit. IRL people don't just die when you poke them with the tip of a sword.

Versatility. Ability to thrust (better range, harder to counter, capable of break mail if enough force is applied).

Guilty Gear inspired me to buy a guitar and learn to play because of the bitching music.
youtube.com/watch?v=rGetImTgyFA

Thank you.

It doesn't break when you hit something harder than a peasant.

god damn if youre going to buy a sword at least get an old cavalry sabre or something a little sturdier.

>Ability to thrust (better range, harder to counter,
A thrust has exactly the same range as a slash. It is actually easier to counter, if we're talking about fencing. You don't move the enemy's sword so they can do whatever with it.

>capable of break mail if enough force is applied
Yeah... no. Maybe if you put a piece of chainmail on the ground and struck it from above at a 0 degree angle, you could perhaps break a single link and penetrate 2-3mm of sword.

Chainmail on a person? You'd just knock him back. If by some miracle you hit a link that had a structural defect it broke, you'd penetrate 2-3mm and it would go into his gambeson harmlessly. If by some miracle he wasn't wearing a gambeson, he would have a small nick on his chest.

What a fucking FAGGOT. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, fucking kill yourself with it OP.

How is it OP? I have been practicing gumdo with the same wooden sword for at least 15 years.

>Polearms were great in a group, on a level field
Depends on what kind of polearm you use.
If you have a something with a very long shaft sure, you are at disadvantage. Something with a length you can fully address is best thing you can have in combat. Unless there are guns.

What about flying polearms

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European swords were no more useful against mail than katanas were. Please get this out of your head. Life is not a video game: you do not penetrate mail with a sword.

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On a open field, a pointy piece of metal on a long stick will always the superior melee weapon. You don't need a group to use a freaking spear.

>IRL people don't just die when you poke them with the tip of a sword.
I wonder why pikes were the most used primary weapon by most military for centuries. Who the fuck dies by being poked, lmao.

Not many people can do that. Even with the timing, they just don't have the flexibility.

A polearm is not a spear. If you meant spear, just say spear.

A spear is a different weapon from a straight sword, in case you didn't know that either.

user its not about what it can go through, but the durability of the weapon itself. A springsteel european sword can take a punishment that would irreparably damage a katana.
Can you not read good?

>I wonder why pikes were the most used primary weapon by most military for centuries.
Because they were very very cheap and easy to use (just poke @ enemy from afar)

Coming in at #2 under pikes for military weapon use was agricultural equipment like rakes & shovels. Does that mean rakes & shovels were superior weapons to swords?

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Almost a full decade later and I still want to punch them both in the face.

comedy gold

I own a nodachi but it's pretty shit quality wise. Looks pretty fucking cool though, so that's something. I want to purchase a mace but have no idea how to go about it. I don't know who to give my money to.

I got one on Amazon, Kult of Athena has a nice selection as well. Just make sure they're "battle ready" and carbon steel.

Katana weren't at higher risk to break, they c\ouldget chips on the cutting edge though.
A period straightsword would have higher whole-body hardness (and thus, lower toughness) than the spine of a katana. European swords weren't differentially hardened, so they made the swords harder than they should be (in order to have a decent edge.)

Katana were overall very durable weapons. They would test them by cutting condemned criminals in half, ribs and spine inclusive. This was called tameshigiri.

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Fun to goof around with in the backyard. Might buy some tatami mats when I run out of boxes and jugs.

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Brazilian cops are dickheads and happy to beat people up
But guns are legal here now so ive thought to buy one and be like an American Suburban Cowboy

it inspired me to buy various video game artbooks, does that count?

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If you want a genuinely good quality budget katana, buy a Hanwei Practical or Hanwei Practical XL. These are not wall hangers, they're made for competition cutting. XL is more for cutting tatami (steeper/sharper edge)
They cost $230 normally, or I believe you can get a 15% discount code for swordsoftheeast by googling.

>A thrust has exactly the same range as a slash.
You know literally nothing. trying to do a cut with the far end of a curved sword will do barely anything. The area of a cutting sword that is actually effective at cutting is in general at 2/3 of its length

A curved and a straight sword or equal length do not have the same lethal range.
A pole arm is literally any and every weapon on a long shaft you dumb fucking nigger
>Spears, glaives, guandaos, pudaos, poleaxes, halberds, harpoons, sovnyas, tridents, naginatas, war scythes and javelins are all varieties of pole arms.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_weapon

I started blacksmithing as a hobby because of dark souls

He had that shit anchored to the ground, stabbing as hard as he possibly could at an even angle, sometimes stabbed the same spot multiple times, and from my speedwatch I don't think he ever got past "Yeeeah, I stabbed a little bit into the cloth underneath. Not much"

Yet still a European sword is more durable due to its Elasticity. A wrong flick of the wrist with a Katana can ruin the weapon even on softer targets.

I know about the sweet spot for slashing, it's just that what you said was wrong. A slash and a cut have the exact same range. Maximum-range cuts were frequently done for cutting people's hands (doesn't require a lot of force.)

This is why the white race is going extinct.

It's like you haven't been reading these posts at all.

The spine of a katana was softer (more elastic) than the whole body of a European sword. That's what differential hardening was all about: allowing for a very hard (sharp, wear-resistance) cutting edge with a very soft (elastic, tough) spine.

Yeah mail is very good protection. People have this strange image that you can just pierce through it.

Im a Med BVLL actually
Not a nordoid
And my country is already “gone” for a century now

Yeah... whenever I'm talking to people about katana and European swords online, every single time they bring up that European swords were good for cutting through armor.
It's surely because of video games.

Do you even see how much energy is lost? how much the whole thing recoils back?
You don't try to piece mail of a big armored guy when he's standing, you do it when he's on the ground. Using the whole fucking weight of your body while doing so.

>mass replying

Easier to pierce than plate but hardly so easy with good quality mail
But mail is not designed to stop piercing first and foremost, its combined with other material like hardened leather to stop that

The spine gave strength not elasticity, when pressure that can bend it is applied, it breaks.

How about you remove the LARP from your brain and go look at historical records of battle? They didn't use swords versus armor at all. Halfswording was a meme technique that was invented by fake masters who never went into battle. Using your very expensive sword against armor was a good way to break it.

In combat, people who wore armor were usually nobles, and as such they wouldn't commonly be killed. The enemy would disarm them and take them hostage for a ransom, also keeping their armor.
In the case of two armored fighters, they usually wrestled and used daggers.

Nice. This is my oldass bokken. I stole it from an old Korean grandmaster, still feel bad about it. Just took the wrong one home by mistake and moved cities.

Cuts and slashes first user. Piercing blows are still its bane for the most part. It can stop a sword, but a spear thrust would go through.

Daggers can't pierce mail, nigger

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A young man is now hunting you to retrieve his famiry honor.

>Med BVLL

That's a weird way of saying "fucking faggot"

Jesus Christ. You wrestle the other guy to the ground and stab him in the joints.
Are you being stupid on purpose?

Right, that's where the wrestling came in. The idea is you restrain them and stab them in their visor with the dagger.

Here are two knights wrestling, one of them about to get hip thrown. Notice they swords and pikes have been thrown to the ground.

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>see dumbass come at me with a sword
>shoot him in the leg then cave his skull in
take the wheellock pill

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Which you can do with any pointy piece of metal.

>“In Japan, it was necessary for every man to carry a pistol; but the Japanese [with their swords] invariably got the better of every man carrying one, even when he had it in his hand… …I maintain the great fault in our swords is that they will not cut. Use them as much as you like, unless you have them specially sharpened the night before, they are useless. In the cut, our swords are useless in nine cases out of ten. The Japanese use two-handed swords; if we could use them, I should say cut by all means; for they never want a second cut.”
“On Military Equipment,” Journal of the Royal United Service Institution

OH NO NO NO

PISTOLFAGS??

>gets stabbed during the 2 minute reload process

Try using a longsword efficiently when you're tumbling around in the dirt.

That's when you pull out the misercordia.

a vida dura do homem romano não sabe nada além de luta, é um sentimento comum agora

I might not be able to use it, but my friend next to me sure as hell can stab the fool while I'm pinning him down. As long as he is not using a gay ass curved sword
>b-but muh 1v1
Nobody used heavy armor outside of the military.

F A G G O T

I want to git gud, but I'm a poorfag

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O monstro das Américas

>shoot it
>bash their armor in
>throw it away and take out your sword
they're one-time use maces, that's why cuirassiers often carried two on horseback during the 16th century.

Whelp

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Shut up, third world pig

A sopa de macaco HUEHUEHUE

that quote was less about overall western weapons and moreso the officer bitching that the ones they gave his men sucked ass, which was probably true considering how often suppliers ripped off buyers in the metallurgy department

Weilding a sword not only requires skill but strength. Lift some weights.

MGS3 inspired me to get fit to enlist in the army to be a green beret like snake did, and I picked up gun spinning dual revolvers because of ocelot. Red dead 2 expanded upon my revolver fondness to more of the western genre in general, and I've debated learning things like leather working or going camping in the woods
>pic related, my tangible autism
Since I was a kid I've always fantasized about being some sort of vigilante ninja, using parkour, a sick ass katana or tanto or something and a ninja utility belt
still want that katana

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>Roman

You mean Italian you fucking faggot, lmao you aren't a Roman.

looks way too european and they got rid of the dragon

plain yamato>ornate DMC5 yamato

>army

have fun fighting for the jews! they will throw you away when you get your legs blown off by an IED

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Katanas are literally a DEX weapon

so you're supposed to kill the other dude quickly before even needing to clash swords

The oft-argued greatest katana user (Musashi Miyamoto) was a giant by his time's standards, and his book repeatedly tells you to just hit the enemy's guard tirelessly until they drop their sword or you cut through and kill them.
terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/A-book-of-five-rings.pdf

Another account (albeit of dubious accuracy) says that Benkei, a 6'6 monk, killed 300+ people with katana.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkei

>that sword that does extreme damage but breaks in 100 hits

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>obligatory Jews post
Why did you even bother lel

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>that sword that does extreme damage but it's made for ants

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>was a giant by his time's standards
I thought Musashi was a manlet compare to Kojiro ?

Obsidian is a really cool material.

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Miyamoto was either 6'0 or 6'2 by different accounts (probably 6'0.)
Average male height in japan was 4'10-5'1 across various regions.

whats the minimum cost for a good european style sword?

Interesting, what modern scalpels made of now?

Use a stick

youtu.be/W0A8cswhc-Y

Anything made of 6160 steel is good. Hanwei Practical is allegedly the best budget brand for most european straightswords.

Modern scalpels are mostly made of steel. Some eye surgeries and robotic surgeries use diamond scalpels ()

>just hit the enemy's guard tirelessly until they drop their sword or you cut through and kill them

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It cracks me up how the nig sees the sword and goes "THAS JUS WHAT I NEED" and tries to grab it.

Niggers, man...

a cucumber dildo. why.

mort

F

I don't know. Single edged swords like sabres, machetes and katanas use strong blows in a single direction to be effective, compared to double edged swords that use more complex movements and so require more dexterity to be used effectively.

Momentum helps

PICKLE DIIIIIIIIIIICK

>compared to double edged swords that use more complex movements

Please tell me you don't believe that IRL sword fights look like anime with lots of twirling twisting fancy moves.

They just swung the sword. It was usually over in a couple seconds.

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whys he smiling

Because he'll experience the sweet release.

I bought a replica Masamune at a renfest one year. It's like eight feet long, and wobbles like you'd expect. Never hit anything with it since it would likely fall apart. Kind of regret not getting the aluminum alloy buster sword they had instead, it's much more recognizable.

because folded 1000 times nippon steel is a meme.

You know high quality euro swords were also folded, right?

Nice

The katana as we know it was literally made to cut through leather armor. Steel armor is a different story entirely since it was impervious to all bladed attacks, which is why european soldiers used blunt swords or half swording.

This is the stupidest thing I've read in a while.

Not that excessively, not even balfer was folded that many times.
By the time they got to nipland they stopped folding due to existence of blast furnaces and an abundance of good quality crucible steel, they had it centuries prior.
They basically just had to shape it.

because he's japanese and he's about to die

His ancestors are smiling at him

You forgot to mention that people testing their katana on prisoners would try to avoid bone because they were afraid of chipping the edge of their brand new sword

wish I could say the same

Except you made that up just now. Tameshigiri wasn't even performed by the customer, you shitty liar, it was done by career tameshigiri testers.

Drain my own blood into a tub over the course of months, separate the red blood cells from the plasma. Denature the cells, chemically separate the iron from the hemoglobin. Dig up my father's coffin, remove the finger bone he wore his wedding ring on and the rib bone directly in front of his heart. Take my best friend's right arm and turn the skin into leather. Forge the leather and bones into a handle. Temper the blood-iron in a blade and while it is still red hot splash it with a tiny amount of my spinal fluid. Cut off my hair and and add it to the handle.
When I die burn me to ash and have those compressed into diamonds. Fit a diamond tip onto it, adorn the rest with the remaining jewels.

except I didn't faggot. maybe look somewhere else other than wikipedia for your info before you call someone else a liar

Japan had blast furnaces 1000 years before Britain and 500 years before Sweden, lol.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Japanese_iron-working_techniques

Folding was done in European swords even into the 19th century.
You don't know the facts.

I bought this

Never played a monster hunter game before lmao

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>>Not that excessively
More folding is good. I don't know why the fuck you would think otherwise.
The only reason to fold less is because you're lazy/it's a cheap sword.
Folding takes a lot of energy - imagine reheating a billet 20+ times to keep hammering and folding it.

I bought one of those cheap butterfly knife trainers because of TF2.

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Had a half hour conversation about life, culture, the gays, and kindness to others with a homeless man on the subway the other day. He started a conversation by insisting he was the first person to ever own a phone. Very nice man.

now that westerners have created more beautiful weapons than katana, why are they still so bitter about katana being better than euro muttswords?

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Learned to pick locks to honour my waifu. Actually ended up becoming a genuine hobby which I'm really enjoying. I've broken into my own house half a dozen times now.

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LockPickingLawyer makes that look way more fun than it probably is.

It can get pretty frustrating at first but if you stick with it and practice, you'll eventually learn to feel out the pins. Transparent locks are a good start and you'll see some quick progress but stepping up to real locks is the challenge.

I've always been interested in lockpicking. How much is a kit like that?

Been getting a lot of his videos recently, google scares me sometimes.

Just use a bump key you faggot.

That's the first set I bought off ebay from China. It was $25 and works just fine. Comes with a transparent lock and a ton of picks. You can buy higher quality sets from lockpicking websites but ebay is a good start. I'm in koala land and they've just recently started selling them from what I've seen. You can probably get them cheaper than that if you do some searching.

If you only want to pick simple locks than all you really need are the following:
>Tension wrench
>Standard pick
>Snake rake
>City Rake
>Snowman pick

you can in Canada

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Why don't euthenasia people just use duels as a legal loophole?

>We're going to duel each other to the death with helium exit bags

I blame my obession with Stalker and Metro.

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I love this kind art style who's the artist?

*of*

WHEN IS SEKIRO GOING TO BE 40€ FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

You don't love her enough if you use all that crap instead of learning how to do it with just a bobby pin

these look cool and all but the filters expire so fast

Baby steps motherfucker.

Besides, she uses the real deal.

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Ignore the uninformed retards telling you that only the Japanese make good ones.

Tamahagane is weak as shit. It's historical, but awful compared to modern steel.

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I bought a compound bow because I loved the archery in Monster Hunter 3DS games so much.

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Absolutely based

youtube.com/watch?v=OA_tCulZTMc

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I simply 3D printed a filter. I dont wanna get asbestos

dont ever post nujak in a thread with me again

user, the japanese didn't have blast furnaces. They have a shit bloomery that was fed shit iron and produced shit steel.

A bloomery is a blast furnace.

Japanese steel was pretty much identical to european steel in quality. Only the ore was worse. Refer to

arabs dont come from ASSYRIA YOU FUCKINGMONGOLOID, fuck you arabs are the strongest warrior race and philosophers and WE INVENTED NUMBERS. fuck off we dominated u persians we own u you are a part of our culture now we culurally annexed ur fuking ass zoroastrian culture is dead. fuck you arabs rule

More folding is only good when your steel is low quality like the japanese had.
If you already have a good flexible steel, folding is not going to do anything except give it a laminated look. If anything overfolding would only disrupt the crystalline structures, you know the thing you want to infuse in there by folding shit metal.
Please don't talk about a subject you have no idea on. Makes you look retarded.

Wrong. The higher end European swords were folded. Refer to You have a pop culture understanding of swords. Stop talking.

that looks like the swords they made in cina or like 10 century japan, how the fuck is that even a katana when it has none of the parts of a katana? ??? even the place where u hold the weapon doesnt look like a katana

no it doesnt you retard, nunchucks are a great weapon to hurt yourself with, thats the kind fo weapon you wouldnt want to bring in a place like brazil

literal sand ape chimping out.
your culture is nothing but an embarrassing bastardization of your surrounding betters. Your religion, your "science", your "art". Judaic, European, Persian. In fact, the smartest and most successful adherents of your stupid disgusting religion are not even arabic, even mongols did better than you. You're valueless fat violent idiots. And whenever you move to a western nation, you do your darndest to act like blacks or italians, absolute valueless people.

NO SHIT YU IDIOT STOP CLAIMING UR SOME EXPERT WITH UR ENTRY LEVEL MCDONALDS TIER KNOWLEDGE YOU WIKIPEDIA READING LIL WEEBERU ZOOMER SHIT hahahha

that's fucking retarded and that user has no idea what good quality is.
The Japanese produced good hard steel, which can hold an edge but is brittle, they had to wrap it in soft steel for strength. The folding is done to smack out impurities and because there are a lot from their tamahagane, they had to fold a lot.
Its a compromise due to lack of knowledge on producing quality ductile steel, you know the ones Europeans and Mainland Asians had for centuries.

Its a furnace, not a blast furnace.
It can't melt steel properly thus leading to a product with inconsistent properties.

they didnt have the same advanced techniques as us in creating heat and continuing it thats why their metal is less pure we had like 20 different cultures in a similiarish area all learning from eachother while japan was very isolated even from china in those days but they learned to cfraete the

Folded when it needed too.
When they had access to different kinds of ingots, they just used laminated materials, eliminating the need for folding in most cases.
You fucktard have the understanding of an ignorant retarded contrarian nerd who has never looked into the topic instead relies on other ignorant morons.

hahhaha if thats true, then why are u sucking arab cock today you persian tranny

really italians? way to invalidate yourself retard. go away jew

You don't produce steel that is either hard nor soft. That's determined by heat treatment. Japanese used differentially hardened swords.

The dunning kruger effect is running wild in this thread. I wish I could press a button that would painfully kill everyone who speaks about a subject they don't understand.

>When they had access to different kinds of ingots, they just used laminated material

Lamination requires folding. It LITERALLY means folding multiple steels together.

LOL i bet he feels stupid now.... if he had any shame

YIKES

NO THEY USE OBSIDIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unless u live in some shithole

With quality steel minimal folding is required, just welding the pieces is enough.
Further down the medieval ear swords and armors were mostly made with a single homogeneous material due to the quality of the available steel.

I'm English.

And i wish i could punch the mouths of ignorant mongoloids like you. There are such things as hard and soft steel, which are know as low carbon and high carbon, each with their own properties.
The japanese used different hardening methods, but their material is just that. Hard, their steel had very low ductility making it brittle, thus requiring the use of the jacketing.
You can't introduce ductility nor completely alter the carbon in the steel while forging, because the would require the piece to completely melt.
Don't act high and might when all you know amounts to jack and his sister shit.

Stop posting. Why do you continue? Just stop.

Why do you? You have nothing worth nothing to say.
What a fucking autistic spas.

So owning a katana makes me a weeb?

it's more related to the bend of the blade and the grip tho

yeah english, is there any more kiked people on earth than th e fucking british? the creators of america and every fucking hellish colonial nation, u let those fucking animals run free ruining the world and then u let those americunts and australian bastards go free. fuck britain you people are alredy paying the heavy cost. the fines have been levied and you will eat shit in due time. for now just watch ur friends n family go to hell, your turn is soon.

Depends on what you do with it and what you look like.

"weeb" is in front of "incel" in terms of most meaningless insults

Why would you want to own an actual katana? I'd be fucking terrified to own such a thing.
>hand slips
>knocks katana off your table
>slices your fucking arm off
At least with a gun you keep it unloaded.

One of the songs in Taiko no Tatsujin DX was partially responsible for me buying a shamisen.

Easy there Aziz.
You know damn well that the people that needs smacking would get away with all the cash.

Obviously made for baby hands.

That's why I just keep a giant stick by my bedside. I'd rather beat an intruder with blunt force than potentially cut myself trying to show of my weeb sword to the guy robbing me

Gran Turismo

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>all those belts

Honestly, how do Japs pull off these cluttered, over-complicated designs? How do they just see that "this is a fine place to put another belt at"? I'm simply physically incapable of designing something so senseless, no matter how I try.

he didn't. it's mentioned in the German wiki article but apparently not in the English.

>IRL people don't just die when you poke them with the tip of a sword.

Yea, they usually go into immediate shock from the extreme trauma of having their guts sliced by steel.

>thicker one
katanas are a lot thicker than european counter parts

sexy just like ada

> runescape
> a gf

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Literally retarded, don't listen to this poster please and thank you.

t./his/

has OP now become the Subway Avenger?

a game hasn't but a game character has
i was jerking off to someone crossdressing as chun li and they were using a tenga egg so i decided to buy one

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I've legit thought about getting a mace for home defense. Backup to my gun obviously, but still. Shits short enough I wont get it stuck on anything or hit a doorframe. I wont slice myself open (much at least) No edge alignment needed.

I love that we help Jews just to piss you off. :D

He's right, lol.

i used to play college baseball so i usually keep one under my pillow and 1 under the bed incase i need to dual-wield

To anyone faced with Arabic anger note how unbelievably gay their insults are, it seeps through their mind before they say it and absorbs their latent homosexuality.

Dude for real...

post the real one next time

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yeah honestly all I hear is about how arabs are like the most "down low" group of people. Their hatred for homosexuality is downright striking and worse than even black people... thou doth protest too much.

A STARS zippo lighter back in the days of resident evil. It was a fucking hassle, package I ordered didn't have one because reasons. I still want one, but it's hard finding a good quality one.

Cool falsehoods bro, did they tell you that in Kendo class?

Whenever I play Castlevania games I usually get in the mood to watch a Universal or Hammer movie when I'm done.

LPL made me buy a lock picking set, and holy FUCK he makes it look so much easier than it really is

The nig fears the samurai

cringe

7/10 for the effort

Because you could just give some peasant a spear and he would be able to kill a trained soldier without having to battle him face to face

Real shit will run you about $1,200 to start

However if you want something more durable than the real shit and don't mind that it's made by gaijin Kriscutlery makes a good quality sword. Best you can get under $300. Great sword with plain fittings.
kriscutlery.com/japanese-weapons/katana-27

Paul chen is prettier but the blade is way crappier. It's serviceable though

Cold steel is a very good quality blade with beautiful fittings as well, but they start at $500. You are paying for the fittings

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that's a product i could do without knowing.
thnsanon.

Kris Cutlery's "katana 27" is literally the exact same shit as the Hanwei Practical, but more expensive - and with no tameshigiri-geometry option. They're both 60% carbon. Hanwei Practical hamon is clay-formed, dunno what that Kris shit uses but it's not clay (probably slack hardening.)

Uhh, sorry, I mean .60% carbon.

every time i read damascus steel it makes me ree
it's pattern welded steel, not damascus. Damascus steel comes from Damascus in Syria

>Damascus steel comes from Damascus in Syria
Actually it comes from India. "Damascus Steel" is a pattern welded steel, but its a distinct steel that no one knows how to accurately reproduce. Nowadays most people use the term damascus to describe any pattern welded piece.

I don't know where you got your information about "European" swords but stating such generalizations is disingenuous.
European swordsmithing techniques were extremely advanced at the time of the Katana, and utilized folding and twisting techniques to attain very light, flexible blades with hardened edges and soft cores.
You can't trust the accounts of one person who most likely was issued Fisher Price mass produced single forged hardened blades to inform you about the state of smithing in an entire part of the world.
Japanese katanas were fucking good because they were all crafted with care. They were exclusively status symbols because of the arduous process to create them from Japanese shit iron or the sheer cost of using extremely expensive Chinese ore.
Every motherfucker in Europe could own a sword due to widespread access to cheap iron, but that doesn't mean all European swords were the same. It's a huge area with many cultures and techniques employed over thousands of years.
That's a fucking lie. Japanese armor was made from both iron and leather including chainmail during the middle ages and forward.
You're not going to bring a sword to defeat armor, in war the katana was used as a sidearm for dueling and close combat. A cheap spear was both better and cheaper for the purpose.
The katana wouldn't have faced armored opponents off the battlefield, and even during combat against armored opponents you wouldn't be swinging for the protected parts. That being said, both European and Japanese swords are equally capable of slicing through inadequate protection, leather scales and even chainmail can be defeated even if the links are undamaged.

so you bought a $20 katana

> and utilized folding and twisting techniques to attain very light, flexible blades with hardened edges and soft cores.
This is just a lie, sorry. European swords absolutely were not differentially hardened.

>and even chainmail can be defeated even if the links are undamaged.

"No"

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>phone filename
>image macro
>normalfaggot opinion

yikes. ouch.
oof

Don't underestimate his power

>burret train cowboy

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>acid etched shit
bleh

So are you saying that all European swords are exactly the same and there's absolutely so chance that even a single Smith in the entire region over several thousands of years thought "man these swords are fucking terrible"? Sword smithing isn't magic my dude.
Yes, enough force will break your bones and cut your skin. Even if it's dampened by layers of chain and gambeson. Watch the video dingus.

Police exist to generate revenue and if they see and offense that'll do that they will be on your ass

Am I psychic to know that there was no European smith in history who ever did differential clay hardening? No, I just know that there are zero cases of european swords like that, while virtually every katana was done that way.

That's crazy. In Texas a law was passed to allow any sized blade. I could walk around with dragon Slayer and no one could tell me shit

A computer, A laptop and The Nintendo Switch

You are overblowing the average intelligence of an officer of the law.

How to make true Damascus steel was lost to time. What a waste

meh, we have better metallurgy now anyways.

>weebs arguing about the sword
video games made get a gun so I can eventually shoot myself in the head when the pain of being a degenerate sets in.

what.

I suggest you do the same.

Thats a machete

A two handed machete?

not OP, I bought a straight sword and it's the best buy I have ever done. I swing that sword everyday and I got fit

why the fuck are katanas so expensive? You can get a very good straight sword for 300$

Time and effort to make something look good.
The process of sharpening the blade alone is consider art, it take years to do it, of course it not cheap user
youtube.com/watch?v=2x5WzIu5iXU

I'm a straight follower of the most Holy and Righteous Allah though.

those fucking proportions are fucking horrible
i mean just look at the blade

You can get a very good "full tang" (as he puts it, like this is an indicator of quality lmao) katana for $230. Don't listen to any retard who tries to sound like an expert. "ful

how much does a bow + various equipment cost?

i tried it for a week and i had fun.

none of that carbon triple bowstring bullshit obviously, just a wooden bow with a thingy that helped with keeping the arrow in the correct position

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That really depends. "a bow" of dubious quality can cost next to nothing. What you're thinking about is probably some high-end sports bow which can cost you like 100$+, maybe 150$+ with aditional equipment.

Splatoon inspired me to try squid. It's fucking rubber.

Resident evil 2 remake convinced me to buy one of these, so yes.

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Plain ol' composite bow plus some other stuffs should be around $200 iirc.

>weebs and hemafags at it again
heres your youtube dump niggers
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Bought some vegetables after playing stardew valley

>like ponies
why do we have a board for these autists?

>acid
pleb

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Bemusingly enough katanas build in the traditional manner hammon and folded patten steel etc are actually no better functionally than $100 cheap modern katanas. Modern spring steel renders the old techniques largely obsolete.

fucking fatass mutt

>150 bucks or so
honestly not too bad, i expected worse
what i used looked pretty much like pic related for reference

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for around 200 dollars you can get a decent real sword, any less and its probably fake

and if you are willing to spend around 2 grand you can get a sword thats been folded 1000 times to make it stronger (you'd want one of these direct from japan)

That's chea-ass tier actually, you should be able to find one of those for less than 100$

What's the draw weight? I find most modern bows are rather week spot bows compared to historical examples.

Ask yourself this: How many knights in plate armour do you really need to take down with it these days?

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thats totally a metal bat. you even hear some yell he has a bat

been a while but i recall 66.
consider that i'm a weak ass wimp and were shooting not too far targets, since the course also had kids

I maintain that *unsheathes katana* is the pinnacle of esoteric humour

It's not the same you are not getting the real deal nor getting the feel for how it really behaved. You might as well have a plastic toy bow.

60s a good starter bow point from what I'm told.

Metal Gear and New Vegas inspired me to buy a big iron

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Spears are the most important weapon in human history, prove me wrong.

yeah because melee fights are just about swinging swords and not wrestling the enemy to the ground or kicking him until you can stab him a few times and leave him to die

Bows.
All neolithic and early bronze age warfare are dipicted being fought with bows.

Buy a good chef's knife instead. You'll actually use it if you're a decent adult, this will prompt you to maintain and take care of it because you'll actually feel when it needs some love.

Based and backstabbed.

Have sex

Do you think that battles devolved into everyone rolling on the ground when horses and multiple people were involved?

Most katanas/longswords are under 3 lbs. Even the largest greatswords are really only about 6 or 7 lbs.
>102 kills, 0 losses
Is the F-15 the finest weapon ever made?

no, they were small skirmishes where people rolled on the ground and tried to overpower the enemy, if not possible they would retreat to catch their breath and support other groups.

Battles would last for days and were not fencing if that is what you are implying. When you are trying to kill other people you don't think what's the correct move to counter his sword position and stab him to the correct artery, you do what you can and must to kill the other, wait for openings and try to hold him with a buddy or knock him to the ground and stab him and then do the same to others no matter what but you just kill that guy and if someone is trying to do the same to you, you do whatever you can to stop him and that is trying to hold his weapon arm to not give him the chance to stab you and wrestle him to the ground etc.

Cars. I bought a Protege5 5door hatch as I became incredibly found of'em from rally racing way back in Gran Turismo 2. no regrets I would even go as far as saying its influenced my way of driving

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lol, that's a flea market sword.

Is the Hanwei Lowlander the only good greatsword under 500$? Dark Souls really made me appreciate these beauties. No way I can afford an Albion.

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buy a tanto and commit seppuku

I have a solution for you

God speed you magnificent bastard

Yeah it's alright looks the part and comes sharp. The problem is its screwed pommel and very floppy. It works but it will come lose over time forcing you to tighten it. Mine has a slight gap between handle and pommel so it moves a little. Not a lot but enough to put you off.plus it can be disassembled meaning I'm not willing to fix the gap to lose that option.

For 300 doller you can't complain but be aware it's not as battle ready as it seems and always a chance its gonna give out with the handle construction. But if you want a big sword it's a good starter always worth mentioning is the windlass claymore is pretty good from what I'm told.

If you're going to actually go and buy a katana of all things might as well have it be authentic. It's not like you'll actually use it.

Define authentic?
you mean one made in Japan by a traditional Smith that will cost well over 2000 dollers?

who doesn't

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Tamahagane katana cost $10,000+.

>It's not like you'll actually use it.
Speak for yourself, fatass.

>real nice katana
What does that even mean? Nice for actual combat? Nice for cutting water bottles? Nice as in pretty to look at?

>they were a good weapon for thier purpose in japanese warfare
You don't need much to cut down peasants.

Do you think European swords were used for some other purpose? Lol.

If i had money to burn i'd totally buy a nice Katana. They are just so pretty.

wow

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Should of been a centre grip shield table. Then you could keep the home invader away at arms length rather than elbows.

Of course, they were excellent for throwing the pommel at people.

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superior european swords!

Why use your weebstick when you can have a kriegsmesser instead? Katanas are for display, not use.

>Katanas are for display, not use.
What?

Why do you have a bokken tip?

Accept your European overlords, weeb.

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