I love Oriental blades, cant you tell?
for $10,000. Someone already owns this, and this was the only picture I could find of it.
[quote]JD430 wrote:
BluePfaltz wrote:
To effectivly answer your question, I sold Pickles.
You must have seen me before, I would stand on my pickle cart and arouse women.
That’s what all the pickle guys do. Always have a great time up there, but I wish they had a few more merchants selling arms. They usually only have three, and two of them are very small.[/quote]
I agree. Chris DeTroy, the owner of the faire, has been getting pressured by the New York State Rec. Comission to pipe down on the weaponry, concidering there are many places to purchase alcohol around and not everyone’s blades are peace tied.
There has never been a problem before, but in a few years, the pressure should subside and more blade merchants should move on in. Depending if Starfire, Eldrytch, Angelsword, Lundegaard, and Citadel dont put them out of business first.
The Golden Templar, as its called.
One more for now. I gotta get back to work.
Not quite a sword, but dammit its sexy.
[quote]TestosterTon wrote:
Your swords are beautiful.
I’m not a swordman in any way, but I did train with the Wushu Broad Sword for a couple of months. Eventually I dropped it due to time restraints, and also because I fell in love with Double Daggers and Three Section Staff.
-ton[/quote]
Ive been fascinated with the three section staff, never cared to learn its usage. If you get real good at it though, I hear you can take out most quarterstaff users.
Always had a weakness for edges myself. I have a couple of functional (1095/RC 46-48) blades which are substantially heavier than these (6 and 11 lbs respectively), but would not take the edge you could get on the RC52s…Nowhere near as pretty as the Angel blades either!
I checked out the website, but didn’t see a definition of “Living Steel” I did see that they use S7 and a modern Wootz variant…was that what they meant by “Living?”
[quote]W.E.C wrote:
Always had a weakness for edges myself. I have a couple of functional (1095/RC 46-48) blades which are substantially heavier than these (6 and 11 lbs respectively), but would not take the edge you could get on the RC52s…Nowhere near as pretty as the Angel blades either!
I checked out the website, but didn’t see a definition of “Living Steel” I did see that they use S7 and a modern Wootz variant…was that what they meant by “Living?”
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This will sound real new-agey, so I apologize in advance.
When I buy an angelsword, I go in person. I have to feel the Angelsword blade to see if im compatable with it. I place my hand up to the blades edge and I (you) can feel a distinct aura, a kind of energy if you will. The Science behind it is that its an extremely high carbon blade, similar to the RC46 you have. The folding methods infuse some kind of titanium element to the metal, making it on the micro level, very brittle, but on the macro level, very strong (similar to Damascus forging). Other then a few chemical infusing elements, im not sure the actual technique to make it living. Daniel Watson says the Avatar blades are a better quality metal, but the Angelsword posesses a higher carbon purity and stronger temperment. It holds its edge and it flexes at stronger degrees then traditional spanish steel blades.
We would all just beat the shit out of eachother until someone gave up or got hurt. NOW they have laws against that, which is another reason why I left.
Great blades. I have only trained with bokken, looking to make my first training blade purchase shortly.
[quote]Xen Nova wrote:
… ninjutsu (2yrs)…[/quote]
Apologies for this temporary hijack…
Hey Xen, what flavour of ninjutsu did you study? Still training?
http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/./1/.1124200548601.Sword_1.jpg
I took a couple pics of mine this morning. Here’s the first one.
http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/./1/.1124201999381.Katana_&_Boken_2.jpg
My Katana and Wakizashi are both high carbon steel, and hold a good edge, but are for decorative purposes only. All of the others are pollished stainless - no edge at all.
The Bokken is the only one that ever really gets any use, and it’s been quite a while since that’s happened.
http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/./1/.1124202344463.El_Cids.jpg
aparently my first pic of my El Cids was too big. This should work.
http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/./1/.1124202505934.Dragon_Dagger.jpg
I also have a few daggers. This one is my favorite.
That wakazashi is awesome.
I like the Bokken too, I think every martial artist should train with one.
These I bought from Hollow Earth Sword Works. I love them alot and train with them all the time. I never got into short sword/long sword weilding. Single blade Katana/NoDachi worked best for me. Im short (5’8") and fat (176lbs), I have a lower center of gravity and am fairly flexable. Swinging light weapons works best for me in combat, and when I learned to use two swords I became even better.
Would you believe this is real and not a replica?
Weight: 4 pounds, 12 ounces
POB: 8 1/4 inches
LOA: 30 7/8 inches
LOB: 10 1/4 inches
Cutting Edge: 5 1/2 inches
Steel: Living Steel
Finish: High polish with carved flowers
Handle: Dymondwood
Head piece: Carved brass
Pommel: Carved brass
[quote]Slaughter wrote:
aparently my first pic of my El Cids was too big. This should work.[/quote]
Nice swords. When my dad was in Spain many years go on business, he picked up a few that look like what you have.
You are into Western blade styles?
[quote]BluePfaltz wrote:
TestosterTon wrote:
Your swords are beautiful.
I’m not a swordman in any way, but I did train with the Wushu Broad Sword for a couple of months. Eventually I dropped it due to time restraints, and also because I fell in love with Double Daggers and Three Section Staff.
-ton
Ive been fascinated with the three section staff, never cared to learn its usage. If you get real good at it though, I hear you can take out most quarterstaff users.
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Yeah, when you see people using it, it kinda seems that even bullets would deflect =). I love it too. I wish I’d kept up the practice. Occasionally I’ll just practice my technique with flower and uppercuts (it’s also a killer forearm workout, especially if you get the fat sectioned ones.)
I think the first weapon I ever learned to demonstrate with was the 9 sectional steel whip. Man…that was the shiz. We had to pratice with “homemade” ones (i.e. rope and a rubber ball at the end). Eventually we ordered out real 9 sections with the 3-4 inch blade at the end. Good times good times. =)
-ton