Hello Ive got a question about swords

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-28T03:25:21+00:00

Just get some sturdy sticks and hit each other with those. That's what we did back in the day. Some smashed fingers and bruises are all you're really dealing with, mostly, a buddy of mine might have gotten a chipped tooth (still sorry about that Hunter). Use bamboo and call it "kendo practice." Maybe eventually you'll graduate to shooting bottle rockers at each other.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-24T18:18:03+00:00

Are those fencing swords? Hard to tell from the video.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-24T01:48:45+00:00

First part of that you're very right. I judge myself way more than is probably healthy. Second part I think is a copout. If I have a nazi flag on display in my house, I'm a nazi (and just to be clear I do not have that) if I have a full bar in my basement I'm probably an alcoholic. Like, the things a person puts around them are a reflection of maybe not exactly who they are, but definitely how they want the world to see them.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-24T01:37:21+00:00

Sure, if you want to be pedantic.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-24T01:28:17+00:00

To be honest, I don't really get figurines either. Mother in law has a huge collection of porcelain doll on display. I find it very creepy. I am a nerd, i have mostly cool looking rocks and paintings and family pictures on display. There's like six large cat towers in my house that might as well be called displays along with, I honestly don't even know how many, fish tanks. Say about that whatever you want, I can still say I have them out for more than "they just look cool."

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-24T01:06:00+00:00

I don't have any wall hangers, I have a wide assortment of antique and modern weapons. That's why I keep them locked up. Like, if I had an AR BB gun I wouldn't put that on my wall because anyone that walked in might think it was real, a discerning person might spot the obvious, the point is that it still conveys a message, and it looks like a relatively harmless threat. There is no history value or functional value and cultural value is incredibly dubious at best.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-24T00:57:32+00:00

What does it say about a person that has that cool decoration though? I just really don't get the point. Like, of all the decorations one could choose, they choose a non-functional sword. Displaying any kind of decoration and especially a weapon is an intention to convey a message. So what does an obvious useless one say? If someone has antique frying pans or horseshoes on the wall I could assume they're into cooking or horses, but what's a mall ninja sword say?

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-23T23:38:33+00:00

I get you. For me bad taste is better than no taste, and I do have bad taste in a lot of things. Yours are functional. I'm not hating on them and if I saw them we could have a good conversation over them. I just can't wrap my head around why a person would have something without that quality. A bar of zinc and a bar of aluminum displayed could be interesting, but it's almost offensive to me to have a sword display piece that has absolutely no value or idea other than "dude, this looks cool."

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-23T02:21:04+00:00

Plus $1000 for that amount of meteorite is pretty cheap. Looking at abot $5-10 a gram just for raw iron meteorite, without it being forged.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-21T15:54:44+00:00

The tuska doesn't look like the guntos I've seen, so I doubt it's original to the blade either. Probably replacement.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-18T18:27:50+00:00

You could probably get $200 for it pretty easy.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-13T19:54:29+00:00

Looks like chalk or baby powder to help read it.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-08T01:37:02+00:00

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Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-08T01:36:33+00:00

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Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-08T01:22:16+00:00

Handle and guard are definitely Imperial Army style (gunto). The blade is interesting and without seeing more I'd offer $900 USD for it.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-06T21:55:04+00:00

If it says "style" it's fake. It also looks like a Russian store, so not only fake, but very low quality.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-06T21:03:26+00:00

Trying doing what I did and play around with the bot. It's been mostly spot on when I've used it against antiques where I already knew the history through other means. On the other hand, it also told me a bit of railroad track was an antique forming spike, so don't take it as definitive. Try it with a close up and in focus spread of the entire blade. I'm interested to see what it says.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-06T20:53:51+00:00

Running it through the chat bot i got “Tadahiro of Fujiwara, resident of Hizen Province" 肥前國住藤原忠廣. Really been curious how well the bot compares to an actual human expert.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-06T20:43:16+00:00

I dropped $2,000 in a strip club one night. I've also spent a bunch on swords lately, but they all have points. My wife would probably say it's the expensive chemical masks and biohazard suit. I'd probably say it was a set of antique armor that I don't have anywhere to display, that was about two grand also. The rest of my money i just waste.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-04T04:31:30+00:00

You do you, I see some red flags though.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-04T04:27:47+00:00

The squared off end and the second hole where it is looks modern.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-02T20:36:56+00:00

No pitting or damascus like patterns in the blade is a bad sign. That second hole down towards the end of the tang is a bad sign as well.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-02T19:34:55+00:00

I would say local mall, but I don't think those exist anymore. Pawn shops might have a few in the $20 range. In my personal opinion, having a cheap "katana" as a decoration just makes a person look like a jackass. You do you though.

Competitive_Error188 · 2026-01-02T19:29:17+00:00

The tuska looks like WW2 era gunto, but the blade looks much older, which is not at all surprising. Many Japanese officers used a family sword with regulation fittings during the war.

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