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| Vigo:
I actually agree with you, and the thing i watched compared to a dude making a sword under modern methods. The guy made it for about 1/100th the cost of a traditional katana, and did it in one day. It held up slightly better than the traditional katana under stress and impact tests. That said, I am sure the traditional katana would be a piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- if not for getting a pretty damn good vein of ore. For making a sword by at home smelting, hammering the metal a million times and burying the thing with clay, it is impressive, but not magic. |
| eds1275:
--- Quote from: Vigo on October 16, 2015, 02:35:06 pm ---I actually agree with you, and the thing i watched compared to a dude making a sword under modern methods. The guy made it for about 1/100th the cost of a traditional katana, and did it in one day. It held up slightly better than the traditional katana under stress and impact tests. --- End quote --- Not to mention that you can kill a man with a pipe from the hardware store for 1/1000th the cost of a sword. Unless you need a sword, and by need I mean are not just one of the creepy millions of white people obsessed with asian culture, I don't think it's really something a whole lot of people can relate to. I had a few swords, and I gave it to my friend's kid. His whole family think they are ninjas or something. He was laughing at the quality of the sword, so I pulled it out and promptly smashed a chair with it. The chair broke; it didn't cut, it literally just smashed through it. I told him that was good enough to kill or cripple someone into not fighting back. |
| SavannahLion:
Well... outside of knowing a few basic crude things like when buying a sword (should such a need ever arise) to look at the tang. I also seem to have a preference for more practical tools. Lead pipes, axes, crowbars etc. Should the zombie apocalypse happen, I'm well prepared with my antique steel welded wrecking hammer. Smash some heads or doors, pry open a safe, my hammer seems to work well. But I digress. Thanks for the insight. |
| Vigo:
--- Quote from: eds1275 on October 16, 2015, 06:08:37 pm ---Unless you need a sword, and by need I mean are not just one of the creepy millions of white people obsessed with asian culture, I don't think it's really something a whole lot of people can relate to. --- End quote --- Still trumped by the many millions of Asians obsessed with western culture. I was once given a few free katanas. And by Katanas I mean cheap display swords. I took one to a chair as well and the chair won. I turned around I sold them to some teenager for $50. |
| dkersten:
I was going to buy a top quality katana for a display on the wall of my game room. I was looking at some fairly expensive pieces and all were razor sharp. Then I realized I was intending to hang them on the wall of my game room, where we sit around and get drunk and get crazy, and realized having a razor sharp sword within easy reach was probably not the best of ideas. I never bought one. Probably one of the smarter decisions I have made in the past few years |
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