For all you Katana-lovers out there, They CANNOT cut trough european steel armor, as the Asian steel was far too soft. Meaning the sword would be ruined, same reason as to why you would NEVER Block with a Katana.
@PanzerJensen to use a shinken you must to know the tecnique to block and let slide the adversary´s blade to create a void to strike, oh and that about cut trough steel it´s just a dirty lie created for people who dont even know about swords and have seen too many movies
Isn't the sword supposed to have a different pattern on the inside? Just from looking at it, the sword appears to be made of a single material rather than pearlite/martensite. Is this true?
Yes swords do have souls. But only hand made ones. Every single step must be over seen and worked on by hand for a sword to receive a part of your soul. Ones made by machine are nothing more than sharp pieces of metal.
@LK9K9 lol no swords do not have souls, but 1 should respect them.
anyways this guy is not actually selling the weapons, he is abusing them to their limits to find out how good they are and if they are worth buying or not.
First this is a monosteel T10 katana, meaning only 1 steel type was used, thus is not laminated. It is also not folded. It is differentially hardened using clay, and probably water quenching.
It did chip/break the way it was suppose to. T10 is a very hard steel, comparable to 1095 steel. The higher the carbon content, the harder the blade but also the more brittle it becomes.
The grain is right, and the material is definitely steel. Also chrome coating does NOT look like that what so ever.
@leoniizu Hmm, i never saw a real broken blade, but this one looks very much like the pictures you could see for example in the great book ''the craft of the japanese sword''. Have you some picture of like it would have to be? Would be very interested ;-)
I love all the people commenting who are practically worshipping the katana as if it were some divine gift superior to all things. Funny thing is, the swordsmithing techniques used by Danes in the dark ages were very similar to those used by Japanese smiths. Folded steel, differentially hardened blades, these aren't unique things to the Japanese. Many other cultures used them, and produced blades of equal quality.
@guilemaster147 Funny how experts agree that the Katana is the finest cutting edge second only to a modern scalpel. I don't see them mentioning Danish blades... Just sayin :P
"Experts". Huh. Well, you have to tell me where you are finding these experts who are 1000+ years old, I'd love to talk to them.
Seriously, I can claim to be an expert of nanotechnology without any credibility. None of these guys lived in the ninth century Europe, or even Japan for that matter. They're not "experts" of anything except lying. Don't be so gullible.
@guilemaster147 Funny, Sort of like the people who claim the Danes used swordsmithing techniques similar to the Japanese sword smiths. When you can find YOUR "experts" let me know and i'll find mine, smart guy.
My claim is not based on what people have said. It is based off of solid, historical pieces recovered from sites in Denmark and others. They've found blades that are dated back to the period, and feature pattern welding. But if you must have sources, try (wwwschwertbrueckende)/pdf/staehle(pdf). Fix the links accordingly, youtube stops them. This source is accurate as well (wwwvikingswordcom)/serpent(html), but not as reputable. At least PRETEND to look before talking...
@guilemaster147 Interesting but if they truly used the same blacksmithing techniques the danish swords would be curved just as the Japanese blades are. Which is a result of the two different types of metals cooling at different speeds. Danish blades do not have the iconic curve that Japanese blades feature, and though they may use a folded metal method they do NOT use the exact same blacksmithing techniques. And i'm sure if Danish blades were compared to a Katana, a Katana would put it to shame.
Your right, they didn't use the same techniques. They used superior quenching and tempering techniques. There's more then one way to curve a blade, and differential hardening isn't the best one of them.
@WitheringintheDark Well you apparently know it all don't you smart guy. It's pointless arguing in a place where obviously everyone is on the same side. I'm sure you'd suck a viking dick if one were offered too, just to get your point across. I honestly don't give a shit what you think, you think you know all about the subject when I bet you've never even held a sword before. So whatever, I hope you feel accomplished "winning" an argument online because you clearly have nothing better to do.
Aww, is the widdle weaboo wangwicker all butthurt because the katana isn't the miracle of engineering and metallurgy he'd love to believe it is? There's more then one way to do something, and the japanese weren't the only people to figure this shit out, nor did they discover the best way(they learned it all from china anyway) If you pulled the samurai weiner out of your ears for a minute you might learn something.
@WitheringintheDark Aww does the widdle nerdy no life have nothing better to do than argue with people on youtube? Aww I fink he does :[ Go get a girlfriend. Or a viking boyfriend, which would suit you better i'm sure. Sorry this isnt as "witty and sharp" as yours was, but I really dont give a fuck and dont care to argue with retards all day. I know you can, because you DO do it all day. But I dont. So get off your high horse stop feeding your E-peen and go outside. It's only sunlight.
I know, sunlights awesome! Too bad it's been raining all week, or i'd be fishing. The small mouth are biting something fierce recently. I get out plenty, thank you, but I appreciate being stereotyped anyway.
Regardless, your behavior is typical of butt hurt teenagers(hence why I was poking fun at you) that fail to get their way or are shown wrong. Insults, "I dont care what you think nya nya", gay jokes ect. All the anime you've faved speaks volumes. Stay classy, Gaara.
Nothing is wrong with the sane ones, but when you're a part of a subculture which has such nerdish tendencies it's really ironic and silly when you try and tell someone else they need to "Get a life".
I'd say the same thing to comic book fans, sci fi fans, dedicated WoW players, etc.
Furthermore, I don't understand your sudden hostility from earlier. I'm on no one's 'side' but my own. I never said vikings trounce samurai or vice-versa, they are both highly skilled warriors. I simply stated they used better heat treating techniques different from japan's. The katana's curve was an accidental byproduct of their heat treatment technique unlike the deliberate construction of EU sabers or middle-eastern scimitar(hence 'more then one way to curve a blade').
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX I understand what youre saying, but youre missing a key point. Japanese swords are single edged, while most European swords are double edged. The Chinese had their swords differentially hardened despite many of them being double edged as well. The reason a single edged sword curves during the DH process is due to one side of the sword being covered in clay. If both sides are uncovered, while the middle IS covered, youll get the DH effect without the curve...I think.
Nice links, though i can't seem to get the schwertbrueckende one working(maybe pm it?) anyway an article on sword hardness on myarmoury supports it. It tells that analysis of ancient blades shows evidence of pattern welding, core-wrapping, and edge application techniques being used as early as 800CE or earlier, in addition to slack quenching and quench and temper heat treating techniques.
Well I'm glad you got use out of them. The other guy obviously did not read them, and he never responded to the sound information I sent him in a PM. I literally sent him an entire 101 course if the history of the blacksmith's art, and he never responded to it. He obviously had no idea what he was talking about. Japanese blades are good, but they're not "the best". In fact, no one blade holds that title. But only a moron will say that katana are better than all.
Hmm, his loss(though not entirely unexpected he did so), and quite true that no single blade holds the 'best' title. I'd be interested in it though, after all, the more you know...
@guilemaster147 I have made patter welded knives that are straight as a fencepost. it's the method of how the blades are differentially hardened that causes the slight curve.
I'm not exactly sure which comment you are responding to, so I'll just say this- you make pattern welded knives using techniques we know about, but your technique is almost surely different then what either the Japanese or others used, as it is pretty much commonly accepted fact that those techniques have been lost to everyone. We will probably never be able to replicate them as they were.
@guilemaster147 lost to everyone, huh? tell that to the gassan family and other multi generation schools of bladesmithing. find me at least three scources saying the techniques have been lost, because I probably won't believe you if you said only one source.
I'm not trying to say that either you or others do not know how to create pattern welded blades, but I am saying that neither of you will know the techniques used by the groups I mentioned earlier. And before you get hostile and ask me to prove things, you should realize that the burden of proof is on you. As you are the one making the claim that you know something, you need to show exactly what thousand year old document you have. Claims without proof are just that. Claims.
@guilemaster147 as is your claim that the techniques have been lost to everyone. I am by no means saying that I use the same techniques as the ancient smiths, but those techniques are still known and used, albiet not as much as the were in feudal Japan. and you sort of shot yourself in the knee with that last scentance, because you did not show what "thousand year old document" you got your info fro either.
That's my point though- no thousand year old document exists explaining how to smith as they did. If you are claiming that such people know how to use those techniques, you need to provide evidence. No one records when something doesn't exist, that would be completely illogical.
@guilemaster147 things don't have to be written, and many smiths just used what worked for them as long ago they all had to process their own tamahagane. much of it now comes from a central scource run by the NBTHK and the skills taught are the same, although not quite as area-specific, as those used in ancient times. The skills are passed down from master to student and evolve as they go, and are not typically written. just because there arent documents showing it, it doesn't mean it is lost.
@Dannybroadsword1 The problem with that, though, is that anyone can claim to have had something passed down from generation to generation. As skeptical as that sounds, it's the truth. You can't recognize something as irrefutably the same as it was in the past without having irrefutable evidence. The difference in makeup between surviving pieces and modern creations are too much to simply ignore.
Uhm this is a chromioum coated sword, the inside is some crapy metal (Fe) the shinny outside is coating, if your sword was made of steel the inside would have a crystalline structure very much like glass or obsidian.
@MrMihales The "crappy metal" is T10 Tool Steel, which does in fact look like that when it's broken. This is not a fantastic $30000 authentic nihonto custom-made for a 10th-dan+ sensei, or even a $1500 high-end sword, and it really isn't pretending to be. It cuts. A bunch. At the price point it's at we're lucky it's made of metal.
I am an industrial chemist.T10 Tool steel is not really steel, it's steel/chromium/mercury alloy coated Fe. Steel, especilly the different types used in weaponsmithing have a crystalline structure as mentioned in my previous statement because they are cooled down very quickly - thus allowing carbon to mix with iron to produce steel, when this process happens in a mold cooling down is slow - so that the mold does not pop and what you get is a crappy metal coated with a shiny steellike crap.
@MrMihales No, you're not a chemist, steel is an alloy that contains carbon and iron (there is no such thing as a steel alloy, as all steels are alloys (alloy being iron and another metal)), it can have any combination of other alloying metals and still be considered steel, and all steels have a crystalline structure. T10 is a high speed, high carbon tool steel containing tungsten; it is homogeneous, contains no mercury, and is not coated with any metal. You are completely clueless
@MrMihales You have no idea what you are talking about; all cutlery steel is largely iron (Fe). All solid metals have a crystalline structure, and no steel looks like glass or obsidian when unpolished. All steels can be mirror polished, including T10 tool steel. Stop talking out of your ass.
этот дядя что собственно показывает? своё невежество или способности дровосека? а может он из квн? хоть знает, где на карте япония (я уже боюсь спрашивать, знакомо ли ему такое страшное слово тамасигири... ну или синонимы...)? или он из этих "уля, ого, хохо" в отношении катана?
musashi himself wasnt even partial to his sword. In fact he goes on to tell his students not to have material things close to you such as heirlooms, because they only serve as roadblocks.......i thought u being the sword-buff you are would know that-
Because in a lot of country's there are a great use. maybe it will help if you do more research about it. And if you buy a sword use it as antique or something like that not as a toy. omg."
You should do your own research before posting self refuting comments.....which BTW is exactly what this video was about; research.
@anoniem798 so you're happy to abuse any other type of finely crafted sword or knife, but pull down ur trousers and bend over whenever a mass-produced katana is in sight?
Because in a lot of country's there are a great use. maybe it will help if you do more research about it. And if you buy a sword use it as antique or something like that not as a toy. omg.
Buy a sword, use it for cutting. Cut anything you like, but learn to cut correctly and precisely, then one day when you must use it for combat you are more sure of your victory.
if you knew anything about using a sword you'd know they are a tool of combat. Nothing more. Tools break, and SHOULD BE TESTED (not by you personally but by means of review)! I've broken many swords and none of them did I treat as anything more than a weapon, these are not instruments of divine power. They are sharpened, tempered pieces of metal. Guns are way more powerful, why not worship those instead? Or better yet nuclear warheads.
@whowantsabighug to be honest any edged weapon should be treated with respect, worship your own blade if you like even if its mass produced if you like it that much it obviously has value spiritually but be prepared if another less respectful person owns one there more likely to be stupid with it and kill themselves than the person who cares for it correctly.
"You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you."
is this a high quality katana? i dont know much about them but i watched a documentary about them and the ones that were made for the samurai were aparntly of extremely good quality. and they look weeks and weeks to make
As you see even a overweighted european weapon can be very fast. Historical blades weght almost a pound less than the replica he's wielding. Now imagine, how fast a skilled warrior have been a thousand years ago.
Interesting how long it even takes to break it on purpose. I hope i will never see my blade like this, would be very unfortunate. But thanks for doing these tests.
Guys come on lol, I don't think vikings were stupid, I was trolling bladerunner555 because he made dumb comments about the samurai. In his stupid mind liking vikings makes him more of a man.
The vikings were not stupid(some were I'm sure), but they came up with the Damascus design! :) And pattern welding, which evolved into the great European broadsword.
This is actually a very strong blade if you know something about swords and not just sprouting anime BS around. To hold that many strikes against the FLAT is impressive.
Hi SleepingWolf: the katana was never a primary weapon for battlefield use. Very often swords would get destroyed, and some Japanese armies literally had PILES of them near the front lines to replace the ones that were inevitably trashed.
I knew the Japanese armies always carried a lot with them into battle, but it is a painful sight to see such a beautiful sword get damage like that xD
If you notice he always swings from his waist, looks ugly, but if you watch his videos it's very effective. The cold steel guys do the same thing in their sword test videos.
im not a weeaboo i dont like samurai much and i hate ninjas i just want a broken sword you fucking douche nozzle, vikings are better i only have jap scrap cause there a dime a dozen
yeah kid cause im sure you grew up in the 1600 in japan and computer bullshit done by to self proclaimed fighting experts is soo accurate. the japs were useless and have huge egos they never took over any land besides a few miles in china that was pretty much handed to them vikings took any land they wanted.
what ever you weeaboo go on basing you history on shitty movies and the words of 13 years old cause everyone in this age just seems to have no fucking clue what facts are. sorry i didnt mean to yell i dont like to yell at the retards
Can stupid men develop sophicticated ships and navigation methods for travelling at Island and North America? Cab stupid men be the most feared enemy in whole Europe? I think not.
WOWOWOW! Viking as just stupid? No, not very true. Ok they were not like Greece or Rome, but the Viking were not stupid. They had to navigate, build good ships, they had pattern welding, and they had water powered hammers
That's something of a stereotype of Vikings based upon popular media. Video games, and movies don't give a very accurate image of things.
The Vikings weren't just raiders, they were also merchants, explorers, and warriors right alongside piracy. For instance, they had to be intelligent enough to navigate the seas and rivers of Europe, and the explored as far as the Americas before any other civilized peoples.
Very true. There is a lot of stereotype. The Vikings were a strong people, which probably garnered a barbaric reputation, but they were certainly not stupid, given their accomplishments.
Not to mention they wrote the Eddas, which would become some of the best works of medieval literature. Also their treatment of women was far ahead of the rest of Europe at the time.
On top of that, their language is very complex and difficult with countless inflections.
the fact that you have no clue what your doing with that sword tells me to dislike.. you cut on a fucking angle dick cheese
Theloltruck 2 weeks ago
A Knight Using a Katana... Interesting
AskYamael 1 month ago
Well I shan't be getting one of these swords to cut up my metal rods!
BackstrokeOfTheWest 1 month ago
...I don't think the traditional Katana had a fuller.
Exile3225 1 month ago
For all you Katana-lovers out there, They CANNOT cut trough european steel armor, as the Asian steel was far too soft. Meaning the sword would be ruined, same reason as to why you would NEVER Block with a Katana.
PanzerJensen 2 months ago
@PanzerJensen to use a shinken you must to know the tecnique to block and let slide the adversary´s blade to create a void to strike, oh and that about cut trough steel it´s just a dirty lie created for people who dont even know about swords and have seen too many movies
abarembou 1 month ago
@PanzerJensen The katana would break against leather armor
QuietGuitaristfan 1 month ago
@QuietGuitaristfan who told you that it would not do such things ever
manufacturedfracture 1 month ago
0:56 the katana blade was lika zarakis kenpachi's !!!!!
johnny123322 2 months ago
Watch out Paul a katana can cut right through steel armor you know. lol.
madax132 3 months ago
Isn't the sword supposed to have a different pattern on the inside? Just from looking at it, the sword appears to be made of a single material rather than pearlite/martensite. Is this true?
Emaniac69 3 months ago
Fail
RoboVT102 4 months ago
A sword seen fit by a macleod. aren't we lucky
jinnd319 4 months ago
L.A.R.P
goku3598 6 months ago
first off not swinging it right cause its not a baseball bat its a sword
grassboarder3001 6 months ago
Yes swords do have souls. But only hand made ones. Every single step must be over seen and worked on by hand for a sword to receive a part of your soul. Ones made by machine are nothing more than sharp pieces of metal.
dorkman112 6 months ago
@dorkman112
Ummm, yea, sorry dude, not true, swords are sharp bits of metal lol
jasonlmcclean 6 months ago
@dorkman112 agreed
LK9K9 6 months ago
a sword like that isn't going to break so easy :)
nicothegreat795 6 months ago
I would never buy a sword from a person who abuses a Sword like that. A sword has a soul. You have No Warrior Spirit. I will Never buy from you.
LK9K9 6 months ago
@LK9K9 lol no swords do not have souls, but 1 should respect them.
anyways this guy is not actually selling the weapons, he is abusing them to their limits to find out how good they are and if they are worth buying or not.
rogantu 6 months ago
@rogantu My sword has a Soul. No need to battle whether it's true or not. But, a Non-Ninjutsu partitionar wouldn't understand such a thing anyway.
LK9K9 6 months ago 4
@LK9K9 Aaaaaw shit! here comes LK9K9! Internet Badass! Give 'em a hand people!
minitacomanofdoom 5 months ago
@minitacomanofdoom
Why do you reply on somthing thats 2 fking weeks old?
BadAss? no
I'm a Warrior ;)
LK9K9 5 months ago
@LK9K9 Ninjutsu has hardly anything to do with swords and the mysticism bullshit makes me laugh. THINK BEFORE YOU TYPE!
colol1122 1 month ago
@colol1122 Lol at your bullsh*t.
Ninjutsu practices Kenjutsu.
I'ts an important and neccesary training.
Get your facts straight before you bump into a 3old month dead video Kiddo
LK9K9 1 month ago
@LK9K9 Ninjutsu is still sperate from kenjutsu, still Martial arts mysticisim bullshit just pisses me off (no dig at any single art).
colol1122 1 month ago
@colol1122 Then stay away with your hate comments.
Just because you hate is, doesn't mean the art of Ninjutsu is "mysticisim bul|sh*t"
I wont reply any further to your childish comments.
Go entertain yourself with somthing that equals your lvl:
watch?v=YHROHJlU_Ng
LK9K9 1 month ago
@LK9K9 I wasn't insulting the actual martial art to each his own, I JUST FOUND YOUR COMMENT FUCKING PRETENTIOUS!
colol1122 1 month ago
idiot
FbrIsGreat 6 months ago
thats not a true japanise sword the blood grooves were never in japanise katanas
dajokersbro 7 months ago
@dajokersbro its not a blood groove ...
the1stcrchofjashin 6 months ago
it looks like it has been eaten by worms inside
Moosareen 7 months ago
@Moosareen metal eating worms? that cant be good
malevolenceXXXensues 7 months ago
gratz u broke a good sword it was cheap but hey u could still use it
starwalker97 8 months ago
you are clearly not a ninja
RansomDWick 9 months ago
Lhahahah some one forget to make layers making this swoard :d.
Liquidazot 10 months ago
@Liquidazot Folding or forge welding does nothing for modern steels.
RebelWrestler45 8 months ago
Beautiful hamon
iBankai145 10 months ago
You hit like a girl.
Lol, just kidding...
guifercon 11 months ago
@erastpetrovichfandor I don't see the problem...
lusteraliaszero 11 months ago
I thought those swords were made for slicing not hacking
Imprezziveness 11 months ago
@Imprezziveness Its a Demonstration, and yes we KNOW thats not how to properly use a Katana thats why its a "Destruction Test"
samrialj 10 months ago
thats very nice but, WHY DOES A KATANA HAVE A FULLER?!
Exile3225 11 months ago
@Exile3225 To lighten the blade and shift back the point of balance.
MrTefached 5 months ago
is that saying it wasnt a fake by seeing the Hamon? I go by SuteUp, too if you want to reply to that page thanks.
OneHeartWay1 1 year ago
First this is a monosteel T10 katana, meaning only 1 steel type was used, thus is not laminated. It is also not folded. It is differentially hardened using clay, and probably water quenching.
It did chip/break the way it was suppose to. T10 is a very hard steel, comparable to 1095 steel. The higher the carbon content, the harder the blade but also the more brittle it becomes.
The grain is right, and the material is definitely steel. Also chrome coating does NOT look like that what so ever.
AsAnAtheistFilms 1 year ago
why didn't you test the one without the bo-hi? it would perform better
1bol1 1 year ago
it really seemed to be real...
then you look it inside =[
leoniizu 1 year ago
@leoniizu Hmm, i never saw a real broken blade, but this one looks very much like the pictures you could see for example in the great book ''the craft of the japanese sword''. Have you some picture of like it would have to be? Would be very interested ;-)
Railriderchris 1 year ago
@leoniizu IT IS REAL have you ever seen hard steel break? huh? didnt think so the SBG custom is amazing and it is not fake..!
samrialj 10 months ago
I love all the people commenting who are practically worshipping the katana as if it were some divine gift superior to all things. Funny thing is, the swordsmithing techniques used by Danes in the dark ages were very similar to those used by Japanese smiths. Folded steel, differentially hardened blades, these aren't unique things to the Japanese. Many other cultures used them, and produced blades of equal quality.
guilemaster147 1 year ago 3
@guilemaster147 Funny how experts agree that the Katana is the finest cutting edge second only to a modern scalpel. I don't see them mentioning Danish blades... Just sayin :P
XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX 9 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
"Experts". Huh. Well, you have to tell me where you are finding these experts who are 1000+ years old, I'd love to talk to them.
Seriously, I can claim to be an expert of nanotechnology without any credibility. None of these guys lived in the ninth century Europe, or even Japan for that matter. They're not "experts" of anything except lying. Don't be so gullible.
guilemaster147 9 months ago
@guilemaster147 Funny, Sort of like the people who claim the Danes used swordsmithing techniques similar to the Japanese sword smiths. When you can find YOUR "experts" let me know and i'll find mine, smart guy.
XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX 9 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
My claim is not based on what people have said. It is based off of solid, historical pieces recovered from sites in Denmark and others. They've found blades that are dated back to the period, and feature pattern welding. But if you must have sources, try (wwwschwertbrueckende)/pdf/staehle(pdf). Fix the links accordingly, youtube stops them. This source is accurate as well (wwwvikingswordcom)/serpent(html), but not as reputable. At least PRETEND to look before talking...
guilemaster147 9 months ago
@guilemaster147 Interesting but if they truly used the same blacksmithing techniques the danish swords would be curved just as the Japanese blades are. Which is a result of the two different types of metals cooling at different speeds. Danish blades do not have the iconic curve that Japanese blades feature, and though they may use a folded metal method they do NOT use the exact same blacksmithing techniques. And i'm sure if Danish blades were compared to a Katana, a Katana would put it to shame.
XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX 9 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX Not enough room in these posts for a discussion like this, and I don't like spamming videos. Check messages.
guilemaster147 9 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
Your right, they didn't use the same techniques. They used superior quenching and tempering techniques. There's more then one way to curve a blade, and differential hardening isn't the best one of them.
WitheringintheDark 8 months ago
@WitheringintheDark Well you apparently know it all don't you smart guy. It's pointless arguing in a place where obviously everyone is on the same side. I'm sure you'd suck a viking dick if one were offered too, just to get your point across. I honestly don't give a shit what you think, you think you know all about the subject when I bet you've never even held a sword before. So whatever, I hope you feel accomplished "winning" an argument online because you clearly have nothing better to do.
XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX 8 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
Aww, is the widdle weaboo wangwicker all butthurt because the katana isn't the miracle of engineering and metallurgy he'd love to believe it is? There's more then one way to do something, and the japanese weren't the only people to figure this shit out, nor did they discover the best way(they learned it all from china anyway) If you pulled the samurai weiner out of your ears for a minute you might learn something.
WitheringintheDark 8 months ago
@WitheringintheDark Aww does the widdle nerdy no life have nothing better to do than argue with people on youtube? Aww I fink he does :[ Go get a girlfriend. Or a viking boyfriend, which would suit you better i'm sure. Sorry this isnt as "witty and sharp" as yours was, but I really dont give a fuck and dont care to argue with retards all day. I know you can, because you DO do it all day. But I dont. So get off your high horse stop feeding your E-peen and go outside. It's only sunlight.
XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX 8 months ago
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WitheringintheDark 8 months ago
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@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
I know, sunlights awesome! Too bad it's been raining all week, or i'd be fishing. The small mouth are biting something fierce recently. I get out plenty, thank you, but I appreciate being stereotyped anyway.
Regardless, your behavior is typical of butt hurt teenagers(hence why I was poking fun at you) that fail to get their way or are shown wrong. Insults, "I dont care what you think nya nya", gay jokes ect. All the anime you've faved speaks volumes. Stay classy, Gaara.
WitheringintheDark 8 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
FYI, anime fans should never, ever use the "get a life" line. It's just amusing.
HereTheArtBegins 8 months ago 13
@HereTheArtBegins And what's wrong with anime fans?
9009roksatar9009 5 months ago
@9009roksatar9009
Nothing is wrong with the sane ones, but when you're a part of a subculture which has such nerdish tendencies it's really ironic and silly when you try and tell someone else they need to "Get a life".
I'd say the same thing to comic book fans, sci fi fans, dedicated WoW players, etc.
HereTheArtBegins 5 months ago
@HereTheArtBegins get a life...
DBSaiyanTim777 4 months ago
@DBSaiyanTim777
Okay!
HereTheArtBegins 4 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
Furthermore, I don't understand your sudden hostility from earlier. I'm on no one's 'side' but my own. I never said vikings trounce samurai or vice-versa, they are both highly skilled warriors. I simply stated they used better heat treating techniques different from japan's. The katana's curve was an accidental byproduct of their heat treatment technique unlike the deliberate construction of EU sabers or middle-eastern scimitar(hence 'more then one way to curve a blade').
WitheringintheDark 8 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX I understand what youre saying, but youre missing a key point. Japanese swords are single edged, while most European swords are double edged. The Chinese had their swords differentially hardened despite many of them being double edged as well. The reason a single edged sword curves during the DH process is due to one side of the sword being covered in clay. If both sides are uncovered, while the middle IS covered, youll get the DH effect without the curve...I think.
LotusDragon09 7 months ago
@guilemaster147
Nice links, though i can't seem to get the schwertbrueckende one working(maybe pm it?) anyway an article on sword hardness on myarmoury supports it. It tells that analysis of ancient blades shows evidence of pattern welding, core-wrapping, and edge application techniques being used as early as 800CE or earlier, in addition to slack quenching and quench and temper heat treating techniques.
WitheringintheDark 8 months ago
@WitheringintheDark
Well I'm glad you got use out of them. The other guy obviously did not read them, and he never responded to the sound information I sent him in a PM. I literally sent him an entire 101 course if the history of the blacksmith's art, and he never responded to it. He obviously had no idea what he was talking about. Japanese blades are good, but they're not "the best". In fact, no one blade holds that title. But only a moron will say that katana are better than all.
guilemaster147 8 months ago
@guilemaster147
Hmm, his loss(though not entirely unexpected he did so), and quite true that no single blade holds the 'best' title. I'd be interested in it though, after all, the more you know...
WitheringintheDark 8 months ago
@guilemaster147 I have made patter welded knives that are straight as a fencepost. it's the method of how the blades are differentially hardened that causes the slight curve.
Dannybroadsword1 8 months ago
@Dannybroadsword1
I'm not exactly sure which comment you are responding to, so I'll just say this- you make pattern welded knives using techniques we know about, but your technique is almost surely different then what either the Japanese or others used, as it is pretty much commonly accepted fact that those techniques have been lost to everyone. We will probably never be able to replicate them as they were.
guilemaster147 8 months ago
@guilemaster147 lost to everyone, huh? tell that to the gassan family and other multi generation schools of bladesmithing. find me at least three scources saying the techniques have been lost, because I probably won't believe you if you said only one source.
Dannybroadsword1 8 months ago
@Dannybroadsword1
I'm not trying to say that either you or others do not know how to create pattern welded blades, but I am saying that neither of you will know the techniques used by the groups I mentioned earlier. And before you get hostile and ask me to prove things, you should realize that the burden of proof is on you. As you are the one making the claim that you know something, you need to show exactly what thousand year old document you have. Claims without proof are just that. Claims.
guilemaster147 8 months ago
@guilemaster147 as is your claim that the techniques have been lost to everyone. I am by no means saying that I use the same techniques as the ancient smiths, but those techniques are still known and used, albiet not as much as the were in feudal Japan. and you sort of shot yourself in the knee with that last scentance, because you did not show what "thousand year old document" you got your info fro either.
Dannybroadsword1 8 months ago
@Dannybroadsword1
That's my point though- no thousand year old document exists explaining how to smith as they did. If you are claiming that such people know how to use those techniques, you need to provide evidence. No one records when something doesn't exist, that would be completely illogical.
guilemaster147 8 months ago
@guilemaster147 things don't have to be written, and many smiths just used what worked for them as long ago they all had to process their own tamahagane. much of it now comes from a central scource run by the NBTHK and the skills taught are the same, although not quite as area-specific, as those used in ancient times. The skills are passed down from master to student and evolve as they go, and are not typically written. just because there arent documents showing it, it doesn't mean it is lost.
Dannybroadsword1 8 months ago
@Dannybroadsword1 The problem with that, though, is that anyone can claim to have had something passed down from generation to generation. As skeptical as that sounds, it's the truth. You can't recognize something as irrefutably the same as it was in the past without having irrefutable evidence. The difference in makeup between surviving pieces and modern creations are too much to simply ignore.
guilemaster147 8 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
Experts such as whom?
HereTheArtBegins 8 months ago
@HereTheArtBegins Experts such as me, now piss off.
XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX 8 months ago
@XGaaraXLovesXTechnoX
I love it when people summon up the authority of non-existent authorities and claim things which have never been proven.
Have a nice day! Good to know you don't know what you're talking about!
HereTheArtBegins 8 months ago
That's not how you use a katana and the katana is fake. I could tell by the blade
we465 1 year ago
@we465 OMG again people this is not folded have you ever seen a hard steel break?
samrialj 10 months ago
thats not a katana ...thats an imitation a real katana is not that easy to break and it does not have that kind of structure in the inside -.-
fuerixu 1 year ago
@fuerixu T10 TOOL STEEL MONOSTEEL BLADE DO YOUR RESEARCH
samrialj 10 months ago
Lol, while the craftsmen made the sword brittle, they also made it hard! It's amusing seeing you take so much trouble breaking a sword.
Punishthefalse 1 year ago
dont let japanese see it..they will kill you
shittyfuck 1 year ago 2
fag
Basschop 1 year ago
@Basschop thats unnecessary
samrialj 10 months ago
haha, the only reason you didn't break it with the first swing is because you hit like a girl... loser
tietenvriend 1 year ago
@tietenvriend thats also unnecessary be mature people
samrialj 10 months ago
Uhm this is a chromioum coated sword, the inside is some crapy metal (Fe) the shinny outside is coating, if your sword was made of steel the inside would have a crystalline structure very much like glass or obsidian.
MrMihales 1 year ago
@MrMihales The "crappy metal" is T10 Tool Steel, which does in fact look like that when it's broken. This is not a fantastic $30000 authentic nihonto custom-made for a 10th-dan+ sensei, or even a $1500 high-end sword, and it really isn't pretending to be. It cuts. A bunch. At the price point it's at we're lucky it's made of metal.
Saavykaas 1 year ago 30
@Saavykaas Is there anything beyond 10th dan?
FatalKnight 10 months ago
@FatalKnight Kenshin rank
NeroNekoHeart 9 months ago
@MrMihales again DO YOUR RESEARCH loook up the sword and get the REAL specs before making unnecessary comments.
samrialj 10 months ago
@MrMihales Take a metallurgy class before making false blanket statements.
NeroNekoHeart 9 months ago
I am an industrial chemist.T10 Tool steel is not really steel, it's steel/chromium/mercury alloy coated Fe. Steel, especilly the different types used in weaponsmithing have a crystalline structure as mentioned in my previous statement because they are cooled down very quickly - thus allowing carbon to mix with iron to produce steel, when this process happens in a mold cooling down is slow - so that the mold does not pop and what you get is a crappy metal coated with a shiny steellike crap.
MrMihales 9 months ago
@MrMihales No, you're not a chemist, steel is an alloy that contains carbon and iron (there is no such thing as a steel alloy, as all steels are alloys (alloy being iron and another metal)), it can have any combination of other alloying metals and still be considered steel, and all steels have a crystalline structure. T10 is a high speed, high carbon tool steel containing tungsten; it is homogeneous, contains no mercury, and is not coated with any metal. You are completely clueless
RebelWrestler45 8 months ago
If you disagree with me please check :"T10 steel" on wikipedia or ask someone who knows.
MrMihales 9 months ago
@MrMihales You have no idea what you are talking about; all cutlery steel is largely iron (Fe). All solid metals have a crystalline structure, and no steel looks like glass or obsidian when unpolished. All steels can be mirror polished, including T10 tool steel. Stop talking out of your ass.
RebelWrestler45 8 months ago
make another one but swing harder...you look like you're holding back
mikechavez4 1 year ago
100.00 dollar 440 stainless steel or a 100.00 dollar low quality carbon wall hanger.
sagequan 1 year ago
@sagequan indeed.
Buuub08 1 year ago
@Buuub08 check out the youtube video called The Ultimate Samurai Sword.
Thats what a real Samorai sword looks like when its broken.
These guys here need clown carts.
sagequan 1 year ago
@sagequan more like a $330 SBG custom
samrialj 10 months ago
этот дядя что собственно показывает? своё невежество или способности дровосека? а может он из квн? хоть знает, где на карте япония (я уже боюсь спрашивать, знакомо ли ему такое страшное слово тамасигири... ну или синонимы...)? или он из этих "уля, ого, хохо" в отношении катана?
TheCheloveche 1 year ago
i hate it when they destroy the katana just to look inside
jomarcel 1 year ago
i heard this song in sushi cat on armor games :D
FatGuyWithAKatana 1 year ago 2
Hmmm, brittle fracture?
scudracer 1 year ago
musashi himself wasnt even partial to his sword. In fact he goes on to tell his students not to have material things close to you such as heirlooms, because they only serve as roadblocks.......i thought u being the sword-buff you are would know that-
cr1tterp0wer 1 year ago
lol get a life
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"More thant you think.
Because in a lot of country's there are a great use. maybe it will help if you do more research about it. And if you buy a sword use it as antique or something like that not as a toy. omg."
You should do your own research before posting self refuting comments.....which BTW is exactly what this video was about; research.
cr1tterp0wer 1 year ago
This is cruel you know.
A katana should be respected for his shape, strenght en power.
And yes we Europeans play with it like we play with our dolls or pokemons. I think we should be handled like we handle the katana.
You are really a sick man.
Japanese and Chinese people hate us. I know why now. I really feel more sadness for that katana than your stupid brains in your empty head.
Kind regards,
Enzo from Belguim
anoniem798 1 year ago
@anoniem798 so you're happy to abuse any other type of finely crafted sword or knife, but pull down ur trousers and bend over whenever a mass-produced katana is in sight?
whowantsabighug 1 year ago 6
No, a weapon is for fights not for playing in your garden or something.
anoniem798 1 year ago
@anoniem798 yeah, but whos seriously gunna use them today?
whowantsabighug 1 year ago
More thant you think.
Because in a lot of country's there are a great use. maybe it will help if you do more research about it. And if you buy a sword use it as antique or something like that not as a toy. omg.
anoniem798 1 year ago
Buy a sword, use it for cutting. Cut anything you like, but learn to cut correctly and precisely, then one day when you must use it for combat you are more sure of your victory.
lordpoee 1 year ago
@lordpoee again its a destruction test, we know how to use swords properly this is just a review to show how much abuse it can take
samrialj 10 months ago
every sword needs to be handled with respect.
but here it was a katana so i said respect katana;)
anoniem798 1 year ago
if you knew anything about using a sword you'd know they are a tool of combat. Nothing more. Tools break, and SHOULD BE TESTED (not by you personally but by means of review)! I've broken many swords and none of them did I treat as anything more than a weapon, these are not instruments of divine power. They are sharpened, tempered pieces of metal. Guns are way more powerful, why not worship those instead? Or better yet nuclear warheads.
cr1tterp0wer 1 year ago
@anoniem798 its a review >.>
samrialj 10 months ago
@whowantsabighug to be honest any edged weapon should be treated with respect, worship your own blade if you like even if its mass produced if you like it that much it obviously has value spiritually but be prepared if another less respectful person owns one there more likely to be stupid with it and kill themselves than the person who cares for it correctly.
samrialj 10 months ago
"You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you."
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI---
cr1tterp0wer 1 year ago 6
teste di cazzo figli di puttana!!
Soldi vostri = cazzi vostri è vero..ma questo è disonorare la katana, stuprarla, ora lo dico al mio maestro che testerà il vostri menischi e caviglie
XCerruX 2 years ago
ma che razza di video di merda è!!! cosa dimostra??
fate ridere
AssassinKris 2 years ago
versionintegrale u also have to remember tht was hundreds of years ago we now have the marvel of technology
datralous 2 years ago
is this a high quality katana? i dont know much about them but i watched a documentary about them and the ones that were made for the samurai were aparntly of extremely good quality. and they look weeks and weeks to make
versionintegrale 2 years ago
The time spent on forging was out of necessity since the smiths had absolutely shitty raw material to work with.
If a European swordsmith took that long for anything other than a pattern welded sword, it's because he's spending too much time boozing.
halfassedfart 2 years ago
@versionintegrale the SBG custom is an excellent katana
samrialj 10 months ago
Many good points dude!
Just the thing about the Samurai and Mongoles..
They never came to Japanm because of stormy weather; thats why Japan could live some Centurys more without occursions from outside^^
Shitnames 2 years ago
I hope that sword wasn´t to expensive
Laharl1110 2 years ago
@Laharl1110 only $330
samrialj 10 months ago
Watch this:
-- watch?v=DxG19dBO-nQ
As you see even a overweighted european weapon can be very fast. Historical blades weght almost a pound less than the replica he's wielding. Now imagine, how fast a skilled warrior have been a thousand years ago.
Protherium 2 years ago
alright man thank for breaking it down simply.
bladerunner555 2 years ago
Interesting how long it even takes to break it on purpose. I hope i will never see my blade like this, would be very unfortunate. But thanks for doing these tests.
Iritas1985 2 years ago
Guys come on lol, I don't think vikings were stupid, I was trolling bladerunner555 because he made dumb comments about the samurai. In his stupid mind liking vikings makes him more of a man.
The vikings were not stupid(some were I'm sure), but they came up with the Damascus design! :) And pattern welding, which evolved into the great European broadsword.
Fr0stmage 2 years ago
This vid is awesome! I just laughed my ass off! By the way: what's the name of the soundtrack?
Protherium 2 years ago
This is actually a very strong blade if you know something about swords and not just sprouting anime BS around. To hold that many strikes against the FLAT is impressive.
Ranziel1 2 years ago
i wonder if samurai ever had to get a new katana every time they came out of battle.
SleepingWolf26 2 years ago
Hi SleepingWolf: the katana was never a primary weapon for battlefield use. Very often swords would get destroyed, and some Japanese armies literally had PILES of them near the front lines to replace the ones that were inevitably trashed.
Kunstdesfechtens 2 years ago
@Kunstdesfechtens
I knew the Japanese armies always carried a lot with them into battle, but it is a painful sight to see such a beautiful sword get damage like that xD
SleepingWolf26 2 years ago
I also tested my Silicon-Steel-Katana from Chenness on a round steel-pole.
It had a very small damage at the hit-point and a few days ago it broke at this point while cutting simple wood.
That's the problem, as it has a damage point it will break easily.
SalvatorQuaro 2 years ago
Man, I know this was a destruction test, but those swings were a little... ugly.
AssholePatrol 2 years ago
If you notice he always swings from his waist, looks ugly, but if you watch his videos it's very effective. The cold steel guys do the same thing in their sword test videos.
disturbedAnon 2 years ago
Can you pm me the link to that katana please?
Ido013 2 years ago
That was painful to watch.
Mveculous 2 years ago
Man Epic win western armor with eastern weapon.
knightdrako 2 years ago
can i have that destroyed blade? ill pay for shipping
bladerunner555 2 years ago
no you weeaboo
coulditbekronau 2 years ago
im not a weeaboo i dont like samurai much and i hate ninjas i just want a broken sword you fucking douche nozzle, vikings are better i only have jap scrap cause there a dime a dozen
bladerunner555 2 years ago
over reacting weeaboo in denial
coulditbekronau 2 years ago
Haha, the samurai owned the viking on Deadliest Warrior. :)
Vikings were raiders, and very stupid. Samurai were intelligent, and honourable warriors
Fr0stmage 2 years ago
yeah kid cause im sure you grew up in the 1600 in japan and computer bullshit done by to self proclaimed fighting experts is soo accurate. the japs were useless and have huge egos they never took over any land besides a few miles in china that was pretty much handed to them vikings took any land they wanted.
bladerunner555 2 years ago 3
Vikings
were
raiders
and
very
stupid.
Read my comment over and over until it sinks in.
Oh and btw don't go there, because you weren't around when the vikings were alive.
Fr0stmage 2 years ago
what ever you weeaboo go on basing you history on shitty movies and the words of 13 years old cause everyone in this age just seems to have no fucking clue what facts are. sorry i didnt mean to yell i dont like to yell at the retards
bladerunner555 2 years ago 3
Vikings were stupid? Why? Because they used axes? Way to go in that way of thinking, kid...
Ranziel1 2 years ago 2
Can stupid men develop sophicticated ships and navigation methods for travelling at Island and North America? Cab stupid men be the most feared enemy in whole Europe? I think not.
Protherium 2 years ago
WOWOWOW! Viking as just stupid? No, not very true. Ok they were not like Greece or Rome, but the Viking were not stupid. They had to navigate, build good ships, they had pattern welding, and they had water powered hammers
255Knights 2 years ago
That's something of a stereotype of Vikings based upon popular media. Video games, and movies don't give a very accurate image of things.
The Vikings weren't just raiders, they were also merchants, explorers, and warriors right alongside piracy. For instance, they had to be intelligent enough to navigate the seas and rivers of Europe, and the explored as far as the Americas before any other civilized peoples.
Caliburnis 2 years ago 2
Very true. There is a lot of stereotype. The Vikings were a strong people, which probably garnered a barbaric reputation, but they were certainly not stupid, given their accomplishments.
Not to mention they wrote the Eddas, which would become some of the best works of medieval literature. Also their treatment of women was far ahead of the rest of Europe at the time.
On top of that, their language is very complex and difficult with countless inflections.
fireangel32 2 years ago 4
And they revolutionised alchohol by forcibly drinking a whole beer at once, cause it was in a horn.
Aq7x8912 2 years ago
nicely done. great Sword.
555D3M0N666 2 years ago
cool didnt know the inside of katana looked like that
TwiceVicodin 2 years ago 2
That took some persistence!
Great penetration of the hamon, that shows a good heat treat.
wizzbangtg 2 years ago
Glad to see you're not dead!
ryandodge 2 years ago 2
great sword 5/5
bigvthe123 2 years ago 2
I've never seen a hamon from inside before. 5 stars for that.
JohnRaptor 2 years ago 7
@JohnRaptor
never seen a western knight wielding a japanese katana ;p
jamz0232 1 year ago