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>>34976952
I've never owned an industrially made sword that was worth a damn. Not to say that you couldn't manufacture a good blade out of modern materials using modern processes, just that no one does.

To answer your question, though, I think it has to do with the very real overlap between the sword community and the fantasy/weeaboo community. Nerds want to believe that all swordsmiths are 1000 year old Japanese wizards living on top of a misty mountain somewhere in New Zealand and sperg out when you break their immersion.

>>34977792
Cold Steel swords aren't too bad for the price. The autists are just butthurt that the super duper original sword they spent thousands on isn't that much better than a cheaper one

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>>34976952
Because they want to believe their sharpened pieces of metal are imbued with magical properties. When it's really just a sharpened piece of metal.

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>>34976952
Probably just assuming that handmade > mass produced. While there's certainly something to be said for owning a bespoke sword, the consistency of machine production allows for reliably good results if a company knows what it's doing.

>>34977792
The video in the OP is Albion if I'm not mistaken. I've never heard of anyone complaining about their quality and their handling seems to be well-regarded.

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>>34978097
Except Cold Steel swords are as overweight as the founder of the company.

Swords made with modern methods are regarded very highly, case in point being Albion. Their swords are impeccably well-researched and made to very precise specs to ensure they are exactly as they're intended to be.

>>34976952
because nowadays factories don't produce swords meant to be battle ready, save for something like cold steel's "swords"

>when the answer us in the question
They're autists, OP. That's all you need to know.

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>>34978168
>I've never heard of anyone complaining about their quality

I've seen some. Back when the next gen line was new they used something that was more or less a very basic carbon steel. Rather historically accurate in composition, but it left them a bit weak compared to makers that happily made use of modern metallurgy as bets they could. The complaints largely faded out IIRC as they switched to a deeper hardening low alloyed steel, and to some degree perhaps also as people accepted the idea that Albion weren't really looking to make the strongest swords, merely swords at least as strong as the originals. So no big deal (in my eyes at least), more of an anecdote.

>>34978097
Cold Steel swords are absolute shit, with a very few exceptions.

>>34978168
I've never owned an Albion sword and therefore don't feel comfortable judging them either way. But yeah, I have heard good things. I just wish they'd expand into smallswords and rapiers. There is just no one making good smallsword/rapier blades these days. At best you'll wind up having to modify an oversized fencing blade.

Go buy a 1/8" x 3" x 3' S7 (Impact resistant tool steel) blank from McMaster, get a belt sander and some belts, and find a furnace or local heat treater. Boom, you've got your spergy sword that's actually going to be decent and not fuck up. Oh, and oil quench it, not water.

>>34976952
Well to be fair you really ought to qualify that. Many swords made in modern industrial settings don't have the work put into the details that the one in your webm did. I can already see people talking about CS's swords being overweight.

>>34976952
Best thing about an industrial process is that its a repeatable and consistent product, which when its done and designed right is perfectly fine for mass production. Part of being a cutler/bladesmith is that you end up doing metallurgy, carpentry, jewellery, working with natural products like bone, horn, leather, hemp etc. which is a fairly wide variety of skills sets to become proficient in. Most people don't, they can do some, don't know others and as a result having a production line of guy who does the metalwork, another does foundry- all the way down to the guy who sharpens it and sticks it in a box have their own specialisation.

I don't make swords.
I truly pity the people who do because they're dealing with the outer fringe of customers that are wanting everything for next to nothing. People won't pay the $1000's of dollars worth of labour and materials that goes into a hand made sword, they want to pay $300 and molest coke bottles, tree stumps and other dumb shit to amuse themselves. Course they'll then complain its too front-heavy or unbalanced because it doesn't have much distal taper... realising of course the company who's making them, makes the blade that way because some fat sperg is going to try and cut up a car door with it and will cry like a bitch when it breaks, screech on youtube that its a rubbish product and shitcan your entire business.
They literally try and make them as idiot proof as they can, because the universe is always coming up with a better idiot.

People quite rightly hang shit on stuff like Cold Steel for being too heavy, too unbalanced and lacking finesse, but they're not making an multimillion dollar F1 car for a bespoke buyer. They're making a budget Toyota Corolla for someone that doesn't give a fuck and will probably abuse the shit out of it doing something stupid.

Because most of them aren't. Especially the ones said autists are likely to be purchasing. Of course the fact that swords are treated as mythical objects rather than utilitarian sidearms doesn't help either.

Nothing wrong with Albion and the like though.