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UPDATE! I updated this picture to include my two newest swords, the Dragon Katana and Sakabatou! And yes, that's a pool cue holder that I'm using to hold my larger swords. It works well enough... though I have to make something to hold the four smaller swords.I got the Dragon Katana from a friend of mine (Naruan-kun!) and the Sakabatou I bought myself. All wonderful swords... and the two "real" Katanas are damn sharp. My bro and I each have thumb cuts from where we tried to gauge the sharpnesses. Yeah, we're foolish.
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Fweehehehehehe! I loves it. The sakabatou has a cloth carrying bag, too, so I can carry it around without people knowing what it is... until I untie the top and let the cloth fall... *evil grin*
My parents are freaked out, though. They don't think I should have any sharp Katanas until I'm 18... and so far, both of my "real" Katanas are damn sharp. Ah well...
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It's only a few months till you're eighteen, though. Wouldn't make a difference now or later. xD
Also, you could hurt someone just as easily with a kitchen knife. o_O
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True, but then again, I don't carry kitchen knives around the house with me. XD
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I threaten my siblings with them if they bother me while I'm cooking. xD Works every time~
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...Wait wait wait. In Japan they call European-style broadswords "BASTARD swords?!" Dude! That's harsh, especially considering that there aren't a whole lot of swords out there with as many functions as a broadswords (wood axe, decapitating implement/razor, cutlery, mirror, life raft, parachute and means of transportation, just to name a few [note I did not add "sword"]).
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Um... bastard swords are bastard swords... not just in Japan, man. o.o;
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Say, come to think of it, is there any sword that's just called a sword? As in, "Say there, Joel. That's a pretty nice non-type-specific sword you have there!"
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Pretty impressive, wish I had a sword, but me mum would freak XD
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Oooooh... Aaaaaaaah-- I mean, Ahhhhhh....
(Or maybe you have to reverse those.)
(Oke, forget the whole thing.)
Anyway, aside from that floorboard sword (I don't have a clue what catagory that falls under) do you only collect Asian swords? As poorly as that's phrased, I guess I just want to know if I can use swords as an excuse to drag you to the Shakespeare festival next year (wishful thinking) or if you want a souvenier when I go (... As though I can afford it).
Erm. Don't mind me. I just feel chatty. Seriously though, there're VERY nice swords sold there..
*shuts up*
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Thanks for the compliments!
That sword at the top was a gift, I didn't go out and get it.
So yes, I am a collector of Asian weaponry. If they've got Katanas, I'm there.
Oh, and the floorboard one falls into the category "European Swords."
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Nya ha ha ha! My boss could tell you what kind of wood that was If you gave it to her. I've been working with SOOO much wood latley... @_@
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I doubt it. Maple isn't that color (unless they dyed it) and it's actualy a softer wood. not sutable for whacking people with.
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Unless you don't whack to kill.
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Even though you told me that nobody in the world would make a reverse-blade sword?
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That's right. I thought that because everyone thought that. Everywhere I turned, everybody said that there wasn't a swordsmith in the world that would make a reverse-bladed Katana because they have no point (no pun intended).
...but then again, everyone said that Card Captor Sakura Movie 2 would never come to the US. And I own it on DVD.
I found it accidentally on the website of the store at AX that I bought the redwood Tanto and Red Oak Shoto from. I was amazed that it existed.
So I'm getting it. It's perfectly real, combat-ready, and is only $186.
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So the moral of the story is, "Tweek is always right."
Don't say something doesn't exist unless you can prove it. And that's damn near impossible.
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hmm...my boss taught me a little swordplay, a form normally used with machetes. but I could use those shoto's well for it ^^ as he put it, I will become "a windmill of death".
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I hear that there is quite a style involving Shoto. It's referred to as "Kodachi Nitou Ryuu," which means "Twin Short Sword Style."
I have some of its techniques on paper, but I don't practice with two swords all that often, so I'm no good at it.
That thing you learned sounds like "Kaiten Kenbu Rokuen," which translates to "Six-Circle Spinning Sword Dance." No, I don't know why it's called that, and yes, I could be wrong about the translation. But I doubt it. I could bring the Shoto to your house and you could show me what your... "employer" taught you. Hahahaha...
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lol, well, what he showed me was of African origin, and it has a name like "escrime" (which is actually kind of interesting becaus "l'escrime" is French for fencing) and prounounced eh-scream. It would be awesome if you could bring the two shotos ^_^
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Alrighty, I shall! I'll also bring that page of twin-sword stuff, just to see if you recognize any of it (or can do any of it).
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