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Anywhere to get a sword like Uma's in Kill Bill?

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Why? You aren't going to learn to sword fight, and there's no quicker way to scare a girl off about you being a freak than seeing a sword hanging above your bed 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Why? You aren't going to learn to sword fight, and there's no quicker way to scare a girl off about you being a freak than seeing a sword hanging above your bed 🙂
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i have 2 swords and 11 knives and am marrying a girl that doesn't like weapons period. and yes, they were in plain sight when she first got to my room.
 
Originally posted by: Yaotl
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Why? You aren't going to learn to sword fight, and there's no quicker way to scare a girl off about you being a freak than seeing a sword hanging above your bed 🙂
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i have 2 swords and 11 knives and am marrying a girl that doesn't like weapons period. and yes, they were in plain sight when she first got to my room.
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:beer:

😀
 
Go to Okinawa and visit his sushi restaurant like Uma did. Pretend you don't know Japanese and bust it out later when he starts speaking to you after you inquire about Hitori Hanzo. I'm not sure if he'll make it for you since you're not a girl and that Bill is already dead. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Why? You aren't going to learn to sword fight, and there's no quicker way to scare a girl off about you being a freak than seeing a sword hanging above your bed 🙂
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I have six swords, some clearly visible. Many women are curious to hold them.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Why? You aren't going to learn to sword fight, and there's no quicker way to scare a girl off about you being a freak than seeing a sword hanging above your bed 🙂
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You know, that would explain an awful lot. 🙁
 
for an actual functional katana that's you'll be looking to spend a few to severeal thousand dollars. For one that's been traditionally forged by a known and respected maker it'll be double-digit thousands.
 
Originally posted by: Horus
I would say it's near impossible to create a sword like her's using traditional techniques nowadays...all the masters are dead, the art is lost.
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Bullsh1t. Unlike European swordfighting, Japanese Kendo is not only still being practiced in Japan, but all over the world. True, nobody actually uses the sword to kill these days, but the demand for actual swords that would function in real world situations are still popular.
 
i read an authentic japanese made sword is almost impossible to get. the katana is made specifically for the user. the measurements are customized specifically for the owner.
 
I'm watching a show right now on "Sushi" knife. They are featuring this 2 alloy 16 folds sushi knife that takes 1/2 to 1 year to make and costs 210,000 Yen.
 
Originally posted by: Pepsei
I'm watching a show right now on "Sushi" knife. They are featuring this 2 alloy 16 folds sushi knife that takes 1/2 to 1 year to make and costs 210,000 Yen.
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16 folds?
 
Originally posted by: thawolfman
Madness - didn't realize they could cost so much.

But seriously, Hatori steel is actually a type of steel? Or? 😕
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Hatori steel is just steel folded by Hatori the swordmaker.

Katana's weren't so much customized like another poster said. There was hilt and guard changes (I will save the Japanese names for another day as I would like others to know what I am talking about)....

For Swords, traditionally it was tamahagane as the steel. Knifes used 'yasuki' steel.

There are masters still making swords in Japan, they are actually people that are considered National Treasures. The most masterful can be commissioned at around $60k, the average I think $20k, however; the usually will never make one for a westerner unless they have a 'right' to such a sword. It's political and complex.

There are modern and debated better solutions for lighter and stronger blades....L7 or something it's by a well known non-Japanese sword maker, I have link at home but no time to search it down now. I think his swords are between $600 for a basic to $5000 for a custom L7 steeled blade.

Some real Katana were also tested on humans (usually executed criminals) for quite sometime to measure there true power. The hardest cut was the 'Double Wheel' a horizontal cut through the full hip (cutting human in two)...the easiest was fingers I believe.....the sword was then stamped with the certification. These are the most valuable of them...and most shunned.
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Pepsei
I'm watching a show right now on "Sushi" knife. They are featuring this 2 alloy 16 folds sushi knife that takes 1/2 to 1 year to make and costs 210,000 Yen.
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16 folds?
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My understanding of the situation...

Take steel, heat it up, keep it hot, pound it flat with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, fold the steel in half with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, pound it flat with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, fold the steel in half with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, pound it flat with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, fold the steel in half with a hammer... and so on... 16 times.

Doh! I forgot to add the second alloy! Okay, start over again...


Swords can be more like in the hundreds of folds = strength = keeps an edge = that wavy pattern on the edge = years of tiny, almost naked dude at a hearth, wielding a hammer = the final "bow" shape of Japanese swords

Once again, I say just kill a samurai and take his sword. How hard could it really be??! 😛

If you're gonna pay for a sword, buy the $70 HSN sword and hack away at your neighbor's hip bone until you get through. Then it'll be worth thousands! Be careful not to break it.
 
The folds work much like plywood does, makes for a stronger and lighter piece usually. Now it ain't 16 folds and it ain't years and years we are talking either 🙂. Many swords took a while as the maker was making more than one. Just like here you get 'waiting lists'...in the 'day' young samurai thought of their swords like we here do of CPUs and car mods.

I am sure there was discussion among them about MiSo Hung-Gri's blades versus Smak-Mi Bish's.

There are definitely makers that are more sought after, due to consistancy...that doesn't say you can't get lucky with a lesser maker. And in the end very few are actually using their Katana in a way that it even makes a difference.
 
I would put full faith in a sword made with current steels of today, and forego commissioning a master swordsmith unless I wanted a collectors item.

Thats just me though.
 
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Pepsei
I'm watching a show right now on "Sushi" knife. They are featuring this 2 alloy 16 folds sushi knife that takes 1/2 to 1 year to make and costs 210,000 Yen.
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16 folds?
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My understanding of the situation...

Take steel, heat it up, keep it hot, pound it flat with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, fold the steel in half with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, pound it flat with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, fold the steel in half with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, pound it flat with a hammer, heat it up, keep it hot, fold the steel in half with a hammer... and so on... 16 times.

Doh! I forgot to add the second alloy! Okay, start over again...


Swords can be more like in the hundreds of folds = strength = keeps an edge = that wavy pattern on the edge = years of tiny, almost naked dude at a hearth, wielding a hammer = the final "bow" shape of Japanese swords

Once again, I say just kill a samurai and take his sword. How hard could it really be??! 😛

If you're gonna pay for a sword, buy the $70 HSN sword and hack away at your neighbor's hip bone until you get through. Then it'll be worth thousands! Be careful not to break it.
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Ah, folded 16 times. A 16 fold steel would only folded 4 times.
 
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