Comments on: We received the new sword samples !

By: Lookwhatwehavehere

Lookwhatwehavehere — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:32:23 +0000

[...] you could read in our previous posts about the new sword samples that arrived and our cheap budget katana, we finally have some of these models in stock now. It [...]

By: Tameshigiri Sword - Tameshigiri Katana

Tameshigiri Sword - Tameshigiri Katana — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:45:30 +0000

[...] up but it’s 0.30am here and no I didn’t sleep for a whole day . We wrote about it this new samurai sword in a previous post and since we were not very patient at that time, we already did a small cutting [...]

By: admin

admin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:02:04 +0000

Hey Patrick,

We will be offering these blades with our without bohi..so there’s one problem less here . The blade is indeed not ‘spectacular’ but for that price you can’t expect a good polished blade of course. You can count double of the price for blades with a descent polish..

We took monosteel because they just perform the best for cutting tests. Most of the folded steel swords doesn’t do a good job with tameshigiri. At least not the heavy cutting excersises. But we’re working on that and folded and even yu-steel blades are on the ‘to-do list’. More on ths later..

I think the price is not bad if we put these swords next to the forged sword range (+€600) of Paul Chen for example.

But you’re right, you get what you pay for..If you prefer a nice polish, etc you will need to spend more €€€

I just don’t agree with your ‘a sword for beginners’ statement. It just depends what you’re looking for. If you’re a collector, I can imagen this isn’t the sword your looking for. But if you’re a practitioner that is looking for an affordable, good quality sword..I know lot of experienced practitioners that are using 300-500 euro swords and they’re al happy with it.

Different people..different taste

Take care !

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:50:04 +0000

Hi,

couple of suggestions:

1. Why yet another katana with a Bo-Hi?! Every “china-wannbe-katana” has a Bo-Hi, I would rather see a blade without a bo-hi.
2. The customisation is interesting, but the blade itself is not that spectacular, just another one “off-the-bunch” of Chens etc.
3. Why monosteel?
4. You say the price is cheap? The blase is around 400€, which I would consider normal for a monokatana with machine polish.

Sorry, maybe something for beginners

Rgds

Patrick