20th century swords

>>33173828
It's not real. It's just something that a company is making.

>>33173828
There was never such a thing, unless you're trying to sell it then yeah.

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>>33173828
>vintage tacticool mall ninja-tier..

still looks kinds comfy...

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I read that USN cutlasses were issued as machetes to USMC personnel in the pacific but was there ever a kabar sword?

>pic 1917 USN cutlass

>>33173828
you have to be 18 to post here

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>>33173868
So just meme tier/mall ninja bs then.

It exists and marines have used it, but never in the service. It's part of the "how a muhreen blows his military pay" starter pack along with the SCAR 17S and a riced out Glock 19.

>>33173828
>was there actually such a thing?
how fucking high are you?

>>33173828
Looks like it comes from the same company that manufactures Arisaka machete bayonets...

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>>33173828

>>33173914
I'm at work, so not very.

>>33173938
lol, I get high at work..

>Tfw I own two arisaka bayonets brought back from Guadalcanal.

>>33173828
It's just a kabar "sword" some guys made up to dupe idiots.
Looks good, I'll give them that.
I thin it'd be a fun little machete blade to slice weeds down with on the farm.

>>33173949
They tend to frown on it here. To many negros have gotten eaten by machines.

>>33173828
Commit sudoku with your faggot meme sword

>>33173985
Seems to me like they missed the opportunity to call it a "kabord."

>>33173828
Someone please tell me they don't actually make this. This is just a photoshop, right? Right?

>>33174003
It's not mine friendo. I just saw it whilst surfing the interwebs.

I was curious and bored so I made a thread.

You can remove the 13in dragon dildo from your ass now!

>>33173906
>SCAR 17S and a riced out Glock 19
literally nothing wrong with either of those

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>>33173988
>checked

IT is a pretty relaxed environment..i guess.

>>33173828
I want this as a bayonet.

>>33173828
Wow

>single edge
>straight blade
>American tanto
>shitty ring guard
>motherfucking serrations on a sword
>titanium oxide coating

This is so blindingly autistic it hurts

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>>33174155
You forgot to mention
>autism sheath for carrying on your back

The "best" swords were the swords designed to be used in the time when swords were actually used, and not just a status symbol carried in ceremony or by officers. They are simple and effective, designed with functionality over decoration. They were like the pistols of the day, a good self defense weapon, and your side arm on the battlefield.

This is my VA Rhinelander, an Oakeshott XIIa style that would be at home in Europe around the mid 13th century, except for having superior steel/tempering and the hilt being more like early Renaissance. The Katana around the 13th-15th century as well for it's size, not as sure with Japanese history though.

>>33174609
Some of the Japanese WW2 swords were designed from combat experience in china. Specifically the Koa Isshin Mantetsu sword was made from high grade steel using special forging techniques to create superior blades for use in combat.

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>>33173868
some of the 1st Raider Regiment guys carried machetes but I don't think there was ever a standard issue one. Probably just bought bolos from the Phillipines.

Looks kind of cool actually, but its probably shitty sheet metal. Ultimately, its pretty useless.

>>33173988
>he works in a furby factory

>>33173906
>No mention of the most expensive used F-150 they can find

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>>33173828
Ka-Bar sword: No
Ka-Bar Spork: Yes

>>33173949
Not all of us are professional dishwashers anon

>>33174845
>Machetes ≠ sword
or ever further
>swordchetes ≠ sword

>>33175149
Damn son you skipped right over the Mustangs with 33% interest, (no money down!).

>>33175149
>>33175172
Top kek

>>33173868
I wonder if there were any recorded sword fights between us sailors and some jap solider.

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this is now a budk thread

>>33173828
Meme tier ABSOLUTELY meme tier.

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>>33175332
No

>>33175431
How is that Cold Steel machete cutlass thing? I am considering getting one

I wanted a really cheap, really big, really durable knife, so I got the "Bowie Machete" from CS for about $15 and I'm not disappointed.

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>>33174845

The 18" Ontario machete has been standard issue since ~1940.

>>33173936
Those are speed holes.

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>>33177490
It's really good, I like it. Like most of their machetes, it needs some work out of the box, but they are durable as shit. Mine has held up great to two years of use, a lot of that beating on thicker white pine up in Maine in the summers. My only real complaint is the handle is comfortable but a bit slippery, not really a big deal since it's a D guard. Also a bit of shock reaches the hand while chopping. It's pretty blade heavy (nothing crazy), if you are looking for something more sword like, consider the Condor Naval Cutlass.

My modifications:
-Convexed the edge
- rounded the spine on mine (better for breaking dead branches, saves the edge)
- Wrapped an old belt around the top of the sheath, I put my belt through the old belt (instead of the loop) so it hangs at a 45 degree angle, like a sword, 24" is too much to hang straight, it gets in the way while climbing over logs.

For big cheap knives, also consider the GI-tanto... and If you can aford it. The Ontario SP-10 ($50) is a freaking beast.

>>33175157
>Tactical Spork
The idea of a spork that has a knife in the handle is pretty good. But that implementation is just too tacticool.

>>33173869
This

>>33174609
> for it's size
for it is size? What does that mean?

>>33173949
Same. Cheflife

>>33177640
Awesome, I'll probably get one.

Where in Maine? Ellsworth area fag reporting in

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>>33177713
My Katana is a "Nanbokucho" style... Honestly not super familiar with what that actually means.

But what I do know, is it's a 30" blade with, 31" from the Tsuba (guard), with a 13" handle, and that's pretty massive for a Katana, almost O-Katana sized, normally Katanas were 28 1/2ish blades with 10-11ish handles. And I know (well have heard) that larger Katana were more common later on in the 13th-15th century.

Like I said before, I am far from an expert, barely a novice on Japanese history. But this is what I meant by mentioning it's size.

>>33173828
kys

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>>33177736
Oh a coast fag. I'm about 2 1/2 hours North/west from you. The nearest "big" town in Dover Foxcroft. The nearest town is Monson.

I live up there for about 2-3 months in the summer. We are about 25 miles from the nearest town, most a lot of it on dirt road, we our on a little peninsula on a beautiful lake.

Btw, I really recommend getting a Schrade Brush Sword (pic related), I just got mine and I'm in love with it. I've not gotten a chance to really test it out, but I feel like it would be perfect for the woods of Maine. It feels like a big knife, more than a machete. And it's only like $33. My only worry is if the steel will hold up, I think it will based on reviews.

>>33177944
In the woods here I pretty much consider knives and big machetes toys. For real bushwhacking I use an Estwing hatchet. Seems to work better on the dry pine shit we have up here. I fully admit I got the bowie machete just for something fun to fuck with

Isn't that area pretty much nothing but old people and unemployed mill workers living on social sec. or unemployment and drinking gallons of Allen's per day? I went to Dover-Foxcroft once and that's what it looked like...

Everything down here's a tourist trap but at least we have jobs and money...

>>33173828
Buying this is worse than having a fedora and a katana

>>33173828
They still included serrations "in case you need to cut your seat belt or some cordage."

>>33175225
I once had a sword fight in Rising Storm using a dead Jap's sword.

>>33175225
I read some navy guy killed a zipperhead with a cutlass in the korean war

>>33173828
below meme tier. in fact, sub internet tier. below paperback novel tier. not even smoke signals tier.

that thing is literal garbage. I'd rather carry an aluminum picture frame bent back on itself and sharpened on concrete.

>>33175225
>BANZAAIII
>SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

Legend says those two fight to this day, locked in a never ending battle atop a muddy hill in the middle of nowhere, neither willing to die until the other meets his end.

>>33174028
>You can remove the 13in dragon dildo from your ass now!
not him, but I can't. I have to wait for my girlfriend (male) to get home with the keys.

If it had a full tang and was cheap I'd buy it for fun
Its probably got a shitty rat tail tang and would break at the hilt as soon as you swung it at bottles though

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>>33178034
Well you aren't wrong, the whole Roxan (no clue how spell her name) trying to turn central Maine into a wildlife reserve thing, was pretty much the nail in the coffin for the economy.

And yeah I agree, normally I pack a Snow&Neally Hudson Bay Ax (that I how to drastically thin the edge) with me for serious work... but in my area, where they selectively log every five or 10 years, there are a lot of 1 to 2 inch patches of moosewood and Poplar... so a nice heavy machete or big knife make short work of that when making a clearing.

Nothing wrong with fun to fuck with, that's why a got my two swords and Xl Espada

>>33178258
>k-bar
>rat tail tang
undoubtedly. those things are absolute shit.
cold steel gets a lot of deserved shot for their swords, but every VS knife I've ever used was at least tough and has a full tang.
they aren't elegant and don't alyays feel nice to use, but at least they aren't shitty commercial k-bars.

>>33175172
>bring in your W-2!
>we finance E-1 and up!

>>33178339
>shot
*shit
>VS
*CS
new phone. they're almost as hard to train as a female.

>>33173828
But is it ready for the coconut test?

>>33178323
Jesus fuck why. I hate giant folding knives. I do wish I had that much disposable money to blow on /k/ shit though.

I never really got the Snow and Nealley hype. Everyone loves their wooden axe handles but I'm not a fan. Get me a cheapo Home Depot yellow fiberglass handled ax and it'll almost never break. And if it does I can still get like 5 more before I've spent as much as you did on your one Snow and Nealley.

I don't really know what to think about the whole Roxanne thing. On the one hand I'm very pro hunting and such and I hate to see land that's closed to outdoors people, but on the other hand I'm very pro property rights, and I don't like telling someone they can't do something with land they own.

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>>33178498
I even said it in that comment... fun... I'm not exactly rich, I'm a college fag, I don't have much disposable income, But years ago I figured out how to make my blade hobby self sustaining. I invested in sharpening equipment, and I make enough money from that on the side to pay for my blades. Although lately most of my sharpening has gone to living expenses.

I don't know what it is, I just really like wooden handles, even on my spiting mauls even though I probably have to re mount them twice a season from over strikes. I get a lot of hand shock from fiberglass, and I don't like that. I'm eventually going to get a Gransfors Bruk Forest ax... you probably think they are really over priced, I can understand.

I agree she has the right to own land... but I think it is rotten of her intentionally kind of strangle the economy in places with it. More so she was pushing to have more than just her land made into the national park.

>>33178651
That doesn't even look fun though. It doesn't even look comfortable to hold or use.

Did you fell that tree by hand? Have fucking fun with that dude. My roommate's just like that, loves chopping trees with an axe for some reason. I never understood it.

I am ashamed to admit that at least half of the blades I own are Mtech or worse... I'm pretty broke

and yeah I haven't been following the issue that closely. If she really is trying to convert land that isn't her property then that is really shitty

>>33173828
What a shitpost

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>>33179233
The XL Espada is actually one of the most Ergonomic knives I own, it's actually pretty amazing, there are like 10 different ways to hold the damn thing. I don't use it for much obviously. I got it on a pretty big sale, like $90.

Yeah I did down this one with an ax, but I got bored and cut up the rest with my Stihl. Normally I use a chain saw, but time to time, if it's not around anything important, felling a tree by hand can be a fun challenge, and a good work out.

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>>33177818
It's patterned after particularly heavy duty swords used to defeat armour and kabuto and survive afterwards.

I believe hanwei wanted to recreate the Dotanuki school style of smiths that were active in that era. They made very robust blades of superior sharpness and cutting ability and were favoured by generals and samurai alike.

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>>33180525
Thanks for the info, that is interesting. Do you know any particular time period that this style would have been popular? Was I even remotely right with 13-15th?

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>>33180654
Yes, it was the warring period directly before the Muromachi era. Heavy, powerful blades were quite popular in this period and well into the Muromachi years that saw alot of political changes, warlords, clan battles and wars with Korea, ultimately culminating in the Tokugawa shogunate.

Heavy swords like these were prized for being perfect for heavy battles, capable of splitting a Kabuto helmet, easily cutting a lightly armoured foot soldier down or withstanding sword strikes. After Tokugawa came to power and the warring period came to a close swords like these fell out of favour for more lighter, practical styles.

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>>33180790
Once again thanks for the great info, it's nice to actually know a thing or two about the design history of what I have.

I wish manufacturers like Hanwei would put more historical background info up about their blades, if they are based on historical blades. Like Albion is pretty good about it.

I've always found getting into the technicalities of Japanese culture a bit daunting because of the language barrier.

Say you would not happen to know what this (pic related) is? It was given to me by one of my Physics Professors a while ago, after we had a long discussion about the harmonics of European longswords. He did not tell me much, just that it's some type of catalog for modern traditionally forged Japanese swords from Japan, and he "had to take a test" to get it. Any thing you can tell me about it?

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>>33180790
And here is another page. It's beautifully well printed.

Forgot to mention, I have an English translation but no where does it really give a title or description of it's self, just the sword smiths and swords.

>>33177648
I think you have too much autism. It's a fucking spork for fucksake.

>>33177818
A katana blade is anything between 2 and 3 shaku (30.3cm), so yours is definitely on the longer side, but I don't think it's irregular either.
It always depends on the style, some like in the Bizen area were famous for their short blades, even during the warring era (15-16th centuries), so it's not like the longer, beefier swords were favored everywhere but those usually denotes battle periods sword designs, whereas shorter swords could have been used in the Edo period as well.
Yours appeared to be from a kyushu style, this region was indeed famous for its typically longer and tougher blades and the fencing style that went with it (Jigen-ryu for instance).

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>>33177944
Looks fun. Ordered one.

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>>33175332

How the fuck am I supposed to hunt zombies with that if it's not neon green?

>>33181512
>Implying Bondage Pants are for anything but looking cool under a blacklight.
kek

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>>33181507
Awesome, hope you like it.

>>33181539

You really just killed the joke with your autism, like a leech on a clown.

>>33181554
Ha that's a pretty good one. The leech would suck the clown's blood and cause it to die.

>>33173828

>tanto point

Did you really think this was issued to American soldiers in 1942?

Would've been pretty sweet to have during WWI though.

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>>33173828
Who needs swords?

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>>33173828
I knew that sword looked kind of familiar.

>>33181222
>>33181213
Probably a catalog published by the NTHK, which is the main governing body of Nihonto in Japan. It looks like a showcase of modern smiths, like your professor said. Gendaito (modern traditionally made swords) are starting to become more collectable and appreciated these days past the usual living national treasure smiths.

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>>33181640

>>33181502

In nanbokuchou period they did not gave a shit about regular or irregular sizes, this is edo BS regulations.

O-Boshi is a trait of this era though.

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>>33173828
>"USMC 1942 combat sword"

"The historically faithful, 27 1/2" overall design"

lol, it's only $30...

>>33173828
Call me crazy, /k/omrade, but I'm sensing that it's bullshit. I highly doubt kbar ever considered a sword during WWII.

Course, I'd call you crazy for training bats to release napalm over Tokyo, so what the fuck do I know, right?

>>33181798
>In nanbokuchou period they did not gave a shit about regular or irregular sizes, this is edo BS regulations.
Sure but then if you start going "It's more of a dai-katana / o-katana / odachi than a typical katana" (not you oc), you're already on the edo-bs-regulations-route because you're already defining the weapon according to its blade length, so that's why I myself stuck with it.

In the end, it doesn't matter that much, but regardless a 30'' blade length katana isn't particularly out of place, especially if you go for the Kyushu vibe.

>>33181572
Purpose of a tanto point?

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>>33181820
Is buy that for 30

>>33179968
That's one thing I never got about Maine, is the obsession with logging. My dad insisted on heating the house with wood, and splitting it all by hand. I had to split wood a lot growing up, it sucked ass. Refused to use a log splitter.

I'm glad you like it. I'm still not a fan. If it's not going to be small enough to fit in a pocket, it might as well just be a fixed blade IMO, those are way more fun

>>33175172
Came here to post this. It's to the point where now if I see a mustang with South Carolina plates I just assume it's a marine

>>33173868
During the battle of Imphal a Cameronian went claymore-to-katana with a Japanese officer and came out the better, I believe I read once.

>>33182214
>South Carolina
Meant North Carolina. Haven't had my coffee yet.

>>33173869
/thread

Officers needed it to counter Japanese officers with swords.

Why do autists love swords so much?

>>33180525
why do sword fags always use the word superior?

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>>33182206
Oh it fits in my pocket just fine, takes up the whole thing... But it fits.

Up there were use a log splitter and Chain Saw most of the time.

We are off the grid, only on a little solar (just for power tools and phones pretty much), and everything else is on gas (stoves and fridges) that has to be brought in on truck via A.E.Robinson every 4 so months. So the only heating has to be done by wood stove.

Keep in mind, I only am up there in the summer for 2-3 months. Other family members of mine stay up from around May to September.

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>>33175159
>see pic 4 (you)

lol, you wish you were right...

I do fuck all and get paid while you most likely bust your ass for next to nothing, paco..

>>33177623
you mean methamphetamine openings?

>>33182318
autism

>>33178229
>implying makeshift blades are only last resorts
>implying makeshifts are not superior to any other blade

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>>33175157

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>>33175332

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What does /k/ think of dadao?

>>33175225
I've read that it had happened before, but I think in the context of the story it was hearsay, and so as to whether it actually happened or not is rather dubious. If I'm remembering correctly it was in the book "The Pacific", which is second hand story telling straight from the memoirs of actual soldiers, however, with it being that way it buries the truth somewhat.

>>33183380
They've always been a very interesting design to me, I wouldn't mind one of those cheap Condor ones for giggles actually.

>>33181640

>trick or treat, motherfucker

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Got this for 25 at a flea market, anyone know what kind of saber it is?

>>33182206
But anon, splitting logs by hand is fun...

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>>33181820
>historically faithful

>>33182242

Because they don't feel disgust while being close to a dying human.

>>33173828
Early on the M1s had a bayonet sword but it was phased out pretty early on in favor for a smaller bayonet knife.

>>33184380
An old one.