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No. 503740

Guys I want to buy a katana on Amazon (USA), less than $100

Any recs?

No.503742

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No.503743

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No.503744

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>>503743
That's not even a katana…

No.503746

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The last true katanas are from WW2.

No.503747

>>503746
Why?

I read that it's illegal to export swords from Japan, so you can't buy Japanese swords outside of Japan, and can't sneak them out because it's very easily detected by x-ray.

No.503748

>>503746
pretty sure most army issue katanas were machine stamped garbage

No.503749

>>503747
Ok you can, but they cost $4,000 and require expensive permits.

No.503750

>>503748
but the machines were also made from nihon steel so the katanas made would still be very high quality

No.503751

>>503747
my friend's grandpa had a sword he looted from a jap he killed

No.503752

>>503747
Everything made after that would have been solely for decoration. WW2 was the last time the sword had a real "purpose" even if it was just for occasional ceremonial beheadings. Anything you find nowadays will be a made in China repro.

No.503753

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>>503752
There's still Japanese swordsmiths making katanas by hand, they just cost thousands of dollars.

I am well aware I'm trying to buy a Chinese or American made sword for under $100

Some of these are definitely functional for actual combat purposes though.

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No.503755

>>503753
STOP POSTING SAMPLES YOU FLIPPING FLIP

No.503759

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>>503755
I don't like 4000x4000 pixel images

No.503764

>>503759
Are you still using a 800x600 CRT monitor?

No.503772

>>503764
4000x4000 literally doesn't fit on any single commercially-available monitor right now, so considering that most users don't even click on the image, let alone download it for archiving purposes, there's no significant and compelling reason to not post samples if the original image is particularly rotund.

No.503782

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No.503783

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>>503782
fucking based trueweeb

No.503784

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No. Youre not going to find anything of quality.

You're better of purchasing a blunt western European short sword.
Why? Because you're still going to severally hurt anyone who is on the offensive or trying to break and entry while ensuring you're seen as on the defensive never intending to kill them incase you actually accidentally inflict deadly wounds.
Turn the blunt sword around and the short sword becomes a club. This also makes any intruder thinking you're bluffing to defend yourself with a knife that can clearly kill them void. Another thing is the assailant or intruder will not want to try to grab the short sword from you as opposed to a wooden bokken or club due to the sword being seen as possibly sharp, so they won't want to risk anything.

If you truly want something like a katana to defend yourself than I still reccomend a semi-blunt katana. This link below shows a cheap/fake knock off cases in yet another fake matchlock.

If you go against ana assailant with this they may beleive you actually have a gun all the wile being able to un-sheath, swing the blunt blade inflicting again a stopping blow while still being able to hold the blade to swing the hand like a club too.

Both options can be used as a grappling tool. The European short sword more so than the fake matchlock katana.
$50.00

https://knifeimport.com/Tanegashima-Japanese-Matchlock-Rifle-Sword-Ninja-Katana_p_4348.html

No.503786

>>503746
Wrong. Last true katana are just prior to the beginning of the Tokyugawa era. Anhthing part Tokugawa's supremacy after Sekigahara are not katana - even then the official consensus to cut off the title "katana" emded in 1573.

I'm not that stingy though.

No.503788

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Cancelled my order, decided that I want a 1095 carbon steel sword.

Most 1095 carbon steel blades are several hundreds of dollars, I found this Chinese sword making company and Amazon seller that I think is legitimate and not lying.

Got one for only $120, already delisted it was the only one left. The 1060 carbon steel ones still up on the listing.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NCF75MP

No.503789

>>503788
Even south Korean tradtional blacksmiths make better swords than the Japanese.

There was one japamese sword maker that moved to China back in like 2000 where the Chinese government (Hong Kong) allowed him to produce & export his blades to the U.S. The Japanese government wasn't allowing his swords leave Japan and when they did it was for the wealthy with so much red tape in Japanese bureaucracy that he wasn't able to produce swords without going bankrupt. I think he changed his name Paul Chen.

That said Korean swords by "Asuka" are great & are retain enough quality to 0ractice with them in cutting tatami mats.

No.503790

>>503789

>Even south Korean tradtional blacksmiths make better swords than the Japanese

WHOA did NOT mean to say that.
What I meant was South Koreans make better swords than the CHINESE**

No.503792

when is this fucking gay weeb meme going to die

No.503800

>>503792
When you slay them with your dick.

No.503801

>>503788
you should cancel again, theres no difference between a $20 mall kiosk katana and these $100 ones from amazog, they're both solely decorative wallhangers that will literally break and possibly injure you if you try to do anything more than cut waterbottles. No, they're not handmade by master swordsmiths despite what the engirsh description about zelda ninja swords say, they're cranked out on an assembly line.

If you want something that can actually be used to cut bamboo shoots or handing beef slabs, then get a hanwei practical or something from ronin or maybe kult of athena. Heres a guide https://www.sword-buyers-guide.com/practical-katana.html
Otherwise save your money because you're overpaying a hundred dollars for a prop.

No.503803

why

No.503808

>>503801
1095 carbon steel is 1095 carbon steel.

Why you believe a $230 sword you linked can be practical but it's not possible a $120 can be?

It's a Chinese sword maker, currency there is cheap compared to USD and not everything out of China is crap. While many parts like the handgaurd/sheath are definitely made through an automated factory process, it's certain that this company is some guys assembling swords by hand, if you look at what they sell it's not possible/less-expensive to have a factory automate that. The blade itself is the most questionable as to handmade/factory.

Regardless, I don't think this company is lying about 1060/1095 carbon steel claims, they have a ton of individual parts of sale even the individual blades themselves.

No.503809

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I don't know about you, but the horrible Engrish translations make me think it's more legit.

They claim it's hand-forged clay-tempered 1095 steel blades, and the blades they sell don't look exactly the same either (different patterns/imperfections on every I could find).

No.503810

> The swords made in Longquan (Longquanjian) are famous among martial artists in China. Modern sword production is now led by a workshop named "Shenguanglong" whose sword-making history can be traced back to the twentieth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. There are several private and state-owned swords-making factories in Longquan.

No.503811

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Found these on Google streets from Longquan.

This probably what it's like basically.

No.503812

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No.503814

Whats a good sword thats formal but still says I like to party

No.503815

>>503814
Wooden sword

No.503822

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>>503808
>this Chinese sword making company
>1095 carbon steel is 1095 carbon steel.
Oh baby

No.503829

>>503822
ew I saw a pepe and and closed the image.

No.503878

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No.503883

>>503829
autism

No.503888

>>503822
>developing nation is full of selfish slimeballs

at last i truly see

No.503889

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>>503888
>China
>Developing nation

They're more advanced than America just with less freedom and rights.

No.503890

>>503889
only in tier 1 megacities. the rest of the country is just huge swathes of poor people seeking manufacturing jobs and not services ala a proper developed nation. none of this is strictly negative though as it only means more room for growth.

No.503895

>>503889
l m a o

No.503902

>>503822
>>503888
>>503889
>>503890
>>503895
We will live to see a war with China.

No.503906

>>503902
It's not in their interest to do so.

No.503908

it's inevitable

No.503929

>>503906
They no longer have the West's interest in keeping our manufacturing over there on at least a public societal level. With more nations/entities invested in the U.S dollar prior to the inflation the Yen & Yuan were not stable enough to invest in thus further isolating economics despite new York (((bankers))) tying knots with Chinese commie party officials.

Both Chinese manufacturing & Ecconmic toes have dwindled.
Fewer american investors means CHINA'S own interests have shifted as they buy out and bribe south East Asian countries to the North West of Vietnam & Singapore.

A new global cold war emerges as China has thousands of spies in the U.S.


The liberals will sell out along with feew but big manufacturers.

Taiwan & Hong Kong are now at threat as Japan ramps up their armed forces as well side by side with Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.

No.503931

>>503929
>They no longer have the West's interest in keeping our manufacturing over there on at least a public societal level

only america. huawei market share in the EU for example barely budged despite the US pressuring the EU to sanction them (they didn't).

the rest of your post moreso showcases the scummy hypocrisy of america than anything wrong with china.

>NOOOOOOOOOOO FREE TRADE IS ONLY GOOD WHEN IM ON TOP!!!!!

No.503932

Anybody who actually believes China would go to war with anybody is an idiot. They have the best soft power game in the world. They can control other countries foreign policy by putting a half a percent tarriff on goods. They don't need military intervention to get what they need. Look at how fast mr. 'tough-on-china' trump capitulated to Xi and is currently eating out of his hands.

No.503937

>>503932
Yeah soft power like biological warfare

No.503940

>>503937
Yeah, and you want to know how China got the virus into the US? By negotiating a trade deal with Trump and then holding it over his head to make him do anything China says. They played him like a puppet. Trade is more powerful than any nuke or bio-agent on the planet.

No.503942

>>503931
>free trade
Theyre commies

No.503943

>>503940
not shilling for trump here but you want to explain? Where are yiu getting this from? What documents point to trump selling out to the Chinese?

No.503944

>>503943
Here's a pretty good list to look at in case you're acting in good faith:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/politics/trump-china-praise-coronavirus-timeline/index.html

Choice quote:

>“Last month, we signed a groundbreaking trade agreement with China that will defeat so many of our opponents. The money that's pouring in, people don't even believe it. And by the way, the virus, they're working hard. Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. I hope that's true. But we're doing great in our country. China, I spoke with President Xi, and they're working very, very hard."


You can clearly see in retrospect that he was buttering up China and deferring to them on the virus so they wouldn't pull out of the fragile trade deal they had negotiated earlier in the year.

No.503946

>>503944
Those are some heavy assumptions 9f trump or the U.S sulking up to china from that single quote. Reading now.

No.503948

>>503946
Why do you think he lays so much praise on China? He literally ran inn 2016 as an anti-China candidate and has a history from prior to the campaign. It only stopped after trade negotiations started because he knew if China pulled it would put his re-election at stake. China is very aware of the political dynamics of the US and takes advantage of it with their economic muscle; eg, soft power.

No.503950

>>503940
>>503944
>>503948
Explain the criticism he's thrown at China since then. The world supported China because they were dealing with the black plague and he didn't want to be tone deaf at the time. Now he's accusing them and the WHO of lying and causing the global outbreak.

No.503951

>>503950
Trump is in debt to a Chinese bank. He also holds stock in the company that made hydroxychloroquine. It was to his benefit to bow to China and bide time in order to get everyone in the US infected and then come in as a savior with hydroxychloroquine. But now it's backfired because the drug doesn't work and nobody is believing Trump's propaganda with it.

No.503952

>>503950
Because he realized that not criticizing China openly is more harmful than otherwise politically. Watch his actions too though; there are still no CDC agents on the ground in China to monitor the situation and verify the extremely sketchy details coming out of Wuhan. He's still deferring responsibility to President Xi.

No.503965

>>503929
This is a very ameri centric view and a small part of the whole picture

No.503967

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what sword did you end up getting?

No.503984

>>503951
>Trump is in debt to a Chinese bank.
And you think that give them power over him? The entire U.S is swimming in debt.

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No.504143

buy a length of rope and chair

No.504165

Hmm today I think I will send more money to China

No.504170

>>504165
do you hate yourself

No.504313

>>504170
Most liberals are self loathing

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