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**xrumerang** · 07-23-2006, 09:16 AM

Ok, so I was looking at obvious wallhangers to makefun of them for kicks and giggles (the best the site gets is Paul Chen blades, and a few normal iaito which it claims to be "fully functional") when I cam across these two things:

http://www.weaponmasters.com/index.h...6&ITEM=WM-9000

This one is sold for $160 (haha), but actually looks like like a real sword, which surprised me.

http://www.weaponmasters.com/index.h...N&ITEM=WM-7180

Then this one is sold for $50 (lol) but it seems like everything is there. (except for some inscription which is probably really cheesy) But is seems to have (imitation?) same, sepa, fuchi, kashira, cotton tsuka ito, saya, saya ito, tsuba, and a normal size nakago.

So my question is: While these obviously could never be used as cutting swords, aside from that, what's wrong with these swords that I didn't notice? And how did they make swords with what seems like the right materials for so cheap? Any input?

07-23-2006, 09:16 AM	#1
xrumerang Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 425 Senior Member	What's wrong with this? Ok, so I was looking at obvious wallhangers to makefun of them for kicks and giggles (the best the site gets is Paul Chen blades, and a few normal iaito which it claims to be "fully functional") when I cam across these two things: http://www.weaponmasters.com/index.h...6&ITEM=WM-9000 This one is sold for $160 (haha), but actually looks like like a real sword, which surprised me. http://www.weaponmasters.com/index.h...N&ITEM=WM-7180 Then this one is sold for $50 (lol) but it seems like everything is there. (except for some inscription which is probably really cheesy) But is seems to have (imitation?) same, sepa, fuchi, kashira, cotton tsuka ito, saya, saya ito, tsuba, and a normal size nakago. So my question is: While these obviously could never be used as cutting swords, aside from that, what's wrong with these swords that I didn't notice? And how did they make swords with what seems like the right materials for so cheap? Any input?
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