Two-Handed Great Sword!

A katana is both a thrusting and a cutting sword.

 

As an ornamental item I think they are fine. I think (at least under UK law) you would struggle to make an argument that was any circumstance when it was used in self defence.

Obviously its different in the US, where the fact someone breaks into your house basically gives you license to kill them.

Ive never owned a sword, but I did use to have a big machete knife for cutting down things in the garden (and cos it looked kind of cool)
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I had a look at this, and went to "medieval swords". The top item was a "Roman dagger", next to a "Roman Centurion sword"... and that kind of offends me.

(plus no Centurion would have had someone with fancy carving all over it like that....)
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Sorry... forget I complained about the Roman thing.

They also have "King Solomon's sword" in the medieval section. I mean the Roman thing is kind of at least excusable at its only one "age" before, but who on earth could think that King Solomon was alive in the medieval Europe???

The items look quite nice, but you cant set yourself up to sell decent historical replica items and display such a contempt for chronology.

 

This makes me want to save up my pennies for one of them sweet machetes.
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I'm a country boy, but I want the Urban Bone Machete...

 

Your first test is to make a weapon out of an old lawnmower blade, an electric grinder and some scraps of leather.

 

Holy shit. 3:00. Meat-filled boots.

These dudes are totally what barbarians would look like if they somehow made it into the modern era. In fact, I bet these dudes are fucking barbarians that someone from some hellish, post-apocalyptic future brought into the future to sell us great swords. To save us. Because the only real weakness of the Mayan gods who are due in seven months is going to come in the form of shiny, meat-streaked great swords.

 

I know, right? I can't wait to dismember Mayan cowboys. Wait, don't Mayans wear feathered headdresses and loincloths?

Even easier.​

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It never ceases to amaze me how many fierce portly middle-aged chaps with male pattern baldness are involved in the weapons industry.

The old paper mache stronghold test videos are super campy and the men involved with Cold Steel products are equally laughable.

That said, I really doubt anybody here would want to be on the business end of one of their products. Pretty solid stuff.

I can speak to the quality of their realistic-use knives. Both the fixed blades and folders are top notch for price.

 

But can you hack through a pig's skull with 'em?

 

Pfft! Only if I use this to pound it through. *Double "Gun Show" Flex*

I'm really disappointed at their failure to use actual human body parts.

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Imagine a young Bodkin as a tester. Ginger w/ septum piercing? Money.

 

He didn't ask to be Macgyver.