The swords arrived 7-8 days after they were shipped. I had received an email confirming the order when I placed it, however I did not receive an email when it shipped, so I didn't know to look for them. They may have been outside a day before I noticed the boxes. With that said the boxes arrived in good shape with no obvious shipping damage. I'm not the biggest fan of the all styrofoam containers, due to it being a little messy when opening the packaging, but I can't deny it did an excellent job in protecting the swords as they arrived in perfect condition. I haven't had a chance to cut any water bottles yet, but all of the swords seem reasonably sharp. Everything seems well built with no obvious defects that I can tell at this time.
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Handmade Japanese (風雲海龍) Naginata Sword Pattern Steel With Green Saya |
Magnificent piece of work and true quality craftsmanship
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Handmade Japanese Short Tanto Sword High Manganese Steel With Natural Scabbard |
Beautiful sword, well made. Arrived four days earlier than expected.
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Handmade Japanese Wakizashi Sword T10 Carbon Steel With Black Saya |
Product has been received. Not on the 7th as reported but close. I believe the 9th was the date received. It was received in good shape and was as expected.
Thank you.
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana Sword For Beginner Training |
The shipping was fast- I believe it was at my door 5 days from when I placed the order.
As for the katana, the Saya is plastic and the blade is aluminum, making it extremely light weight and easy to wield. I've only had it for a day and done some basic drawing/drills with it. Admittedly I am concerned about how it will hold up to even light contact, so time will tell.
For now I am happy with it, but the price does seem high for a practice weapon (based on the plethora of "sharp" edged, and probably poor quality, weapons I could have gotten for a fraction of the price). If I can get a couple years of use out of it, I'd say it was worth it.
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana For Beginner Training |
An exquisite craftmanship, very sturdy, genuine materials and really beautiful.
Only one point of disappointment, and it is a major one for me;
like written in your description of this Tanto :
- "razors edge sharp"
- "battle-ready swords"
- "built for cutting" (?!)
- "extremely sharp hand honed edge".
I am afraid it is not true.
I own a Katana with those qualities and this Tanto is not near
to cut something at all. It is even dull at some points to say the truth.
....but 4 stars anyway because it is awesome for display.
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High-performance Japanese Shirasaya Tanto Sword T10 Carbon Steel |
I am very pleased with this purchase. Super sharp blade and beautifully made.
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Handmade Japanese Aikuchi Tanto Sword 1045 Carbon Steel |
Sword is nice scabbard is nice BUT sword fits very loose in scabbard and falls out it turned upside down
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Handmade Medieval Longsword Manganese Steel Blade |
Paint on the katana blade was scratched and after a few draws from the plastic Saya it received more scratches. The koiguchi was incredibly tight.
Other than that it arrived quickly and will make a good practice katana. It feels good in the hand.
Next time I would not get the painted blades.
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Handmade Aluminum Gray Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana For Beginner Training |
I bought this sword just to have something I could practice difficult twirls and fast draws with. I didn't want to risk getting injured using my real sword which is a competition cutting sword (a Last Legend Tsunami). And now that I am getting older and have arthritis, I need to be more carful.
This sword was better than I expect, but you need to know some things about it before you buy.
The blade is 28 1/4" long and the tsuka is 10 3/4" long which I am happy about. I like an 11" handle and a 29" or 30" blade. So this one is short but feels good to use.
They talk about balance with swords, but in the 40 years I have used them, I think it is more a question of weight. Swords that are heavy seem to be out of balance more than lighter ones. Anyway, this sword is so light that balance doesn't matter. You can hardly feel it compared to a cutting blade.
The saya is plastic. It looks and feels like a wooden saya but it's not. The problem is that the blade clunks around and makes a lot of noise when you put the sword away. You can control that a lot by how you put it away. Just press the back side of the blade downward against the opening as you push it in and that cuts out most of the noise. The habaki hits the mouth of the saya and that is were most of the noise comes from, but if you press the back of the blade down and push the tip up as you reach the end, it will go in nicely. It just takes getting used to.
I was disappointed that the same isn't real like the ad claimed, but for the price, I don't mind. I am going to rewrap it and replace the synthetic same anyway. As for the handle wrapping, it's not bad. It's not high quality silk or even cotton, and so it feels kind of rough. But it does stay in place and the diamonds are mostly even. The ito doesn't come apart from use so if you are not really picky, the handle is fine. The length is a little longer than they told me it would be.
The blade is really good. I had an expensive (2K) dull katana many years ago. It was really high quality, but it was too small for me so I sold it after 20 years. The blade on this sword compares with that one. It looks about the same and feels about the same. I really like it.
For the money there is nothing wrong with this sword. I like it. But I like expensive swords and want them to be perfect. So if I like it, most likely you will too. Just be aware that you might want to upgrade the tsuka or even the saya. I ordered a wooden saya for mine and once I replace the same with real same and wrap the handle, I think I will love this sword.
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana For Beginner Training |
Where else can you buy original Japanese sword, only here. Thank you guys.
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Handmade Japanese (紅梅) Naginata Sword Full Tang With Black Saya |
Sword was as described personally the ito wrap was too dark for me but the munuki we're beautiful same with all the other fittings and all we're secured tightly. A couple problems though is that the blade doesn't fit perfectly in the saya so there's a little bit of a rattle and secondly the habaki is just pressure fit to the koiguchi so it's tight but not the tightest fot will fall out if you shake it too much while its facing down, but other than those two things the sword is awesome will be buying from here again someday.
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana For Beginner Training |
Katana was just as described, great detail to workmanship and good quality from what I can see. Not as light as I thought it would be but still much lighter than my other steel swords. This sword will be used for performing katas that require spinning and twirling.
Will show it to students to see if they like it, then will order more.
MGF
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana For Beginner Training |
The Katana was beautiful and shipping was pretty fast.
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana Sword For Beginner Training |
Blade was a little bent but other than that amazing packaging and good craftsmanship!
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana For Beginner Training |
Beautiful knife. The only problem I have is that the blade is a little scratched when I got it, but besides that it is a nice knife.
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Handmade Japanese Aikuchi Tanto Sword 1045 Carbon Steel |
Great blade design is beautiful I would give 4.5 stars but did not have option
The one pice was Loose But slides on nicely
Love it
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Japanese Army Shin Gunto Officer’s Saber Sword Type 98 |
was packaged well, showed up undamaged. the item itself is great, no loose shakey components great form and practice katana.
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Handmade Aluminum Blade Blunt Unsharpened Practice Katana For Beginner Training |
Vert nicely finished. The wood is beautiful, fits nicely. Blade looks very good. Packaged well.
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Handmade Japanese Aikuchi Tanto Sword 1045 Carbon Steel |
Great knife, Clean blade, fits nicely in the sheath. Comes exactly as pictured.
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Handmade Japanese Aikuchi Tanto Sword 1045 Carbon Steel |