I wanna buy my first katana, something up to 100 bucks. What should I look for?
Katanas
Josiah Hughes
Kevin Adams
Are you serious?
Connor Reed
Katana buying rules:
>You can only ever buy one Katana, so it can't be a piece of shit. Any more makes you an autistic weeb.
>Never take a photo of yourself with it.
>You should have a genuine reason for owning it, such as a collection of anachronistic weapons.
>It must not be your only combat ready knife/sword. Do you at least have a K-Bar?
If you can't even afford $400 for Cold Steel trash, you aren't ready to buy a Katana.
Sebastian Phillips
$100 will get you flea market crap
Evan Thompson
Cheness makes good shit for less than that apparently
Ryan Cruz
A proper whetstone will cost you more than $100. Most cheap swords come with a shit edge.
Jose Rogers
hanwei makes some decent budget marial arts katanas for the autists whose only skill is slicing trees
Oliver Myers
If it can chop a tree it could probably fuck someone up desu. People stab and slice eachother with a lot less
Luke Barnes
^Best answer
This is now a "teleports behind you" thread.
Brayden Richardson
Josiah Walker
You're going to find yourself wanting to chop at bamboo with your katana one day. With your cheap piece of weeb trash, you'll chop your katana apart before you'll chop the bamboo.
Just get a $40 katana machete. You'll thank yourself (and me) the first time you get it stuck in a tree or roll the blade on a rock.
Jaxson Carter
Still in the same price range as cold steel. Definitely nothing decent in the sub $100 range.
You may be able to find something dirt cheap on Cult of Athena made from decent steel but it won't come with an edge.
Parker Perry
Landon Anderson
Elijah Edwards
nothing personal kid
Liam Perry
Cameron Lopez
anti-personel kid
Alexander Flores
Get 3
Nathaniel Gomez
The thing people forget about the katana market is that it's fucking huge. Any other sword design going for around $100 is going to be trash, but the weaboo market is so big that you can actually get some halfway decent swords for way cheaper than any other kind of sword due to supply meeting demand.
Brands like Musashi and Munetoshi can put out some surprisingly decent katanas for $100 that are a step above a katana machete or mall ninja special. They're not quite the same as a more expensive katana, but for a backyard cutter, they'll do fine.
Nicholas Thomas
Hunter Stewart
trees dont move senpai, you need your blade to have the teleport enchantment in order to hit a moving target
Christopher Martin
David Evans
does this have a feminine benis?
Xavier Richardson
Luke Barnes
Nathaniel Scott
Joseph Wood
Benjamin Bailey
Can you recommend any specific model in that price range?
Jayden Perez
Ayden Anderson
Kayden Garcia
>katanas
>-s
Bentley Reyes
You would do well not to underestimate my power...
*smirks*
Easton Perez
You can barely buy a quality fixed/folder for a 100 bucks
How the fuck you expect to afford a quality katana retarded bitch, a 100 katana is going to be some frost cutlery tv chicom shit. Have fun breaking your blade and stabbing yourself in the femoral artery
Adam Foster
Asher Cooper
an emt buddy of mine actually responded to this...
mall ninja neckbeard was slashing 2 liter bottles in his kitchen, bounced blade off counter and into leg, then his mom called 911 cus of all the blood
Luis Gutierrez
Munetoshi Jubei or Lion Dog
Robert Brown
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WE ARE
Alexander Kelly
Ryder Walker
My man!
Tyler Flores
$100? Costco must pay more than it used to.
Camden Howard
Average employee wage at costco is $21/hr. That's a fuckload more than any other retail.
Dominic Thomas
I got the Musashi Bamboo Warrior Katana for 100 dollars. It might be a bit more expensive now since this was a few years ago.
I won't lie, at 100 dollars the sword is obviously mediocre. But it did come quite sharp, with a differentially hardened edge and actual clay-tempered hamon (That was the main selling point, a super low cost tempered katana). It has held up to lots of testing, and I certainly haven't treated it well. The edge does roll on harder targets, since it's only 1060 Steel.
If I am being nitpicky, the scabbard is a bit cheap. But it still fits the sword well, it just tends to leave little bits of sawdust on the sword.
But overall, it's unbeatable for the price. You won't find a better katana, and probably even any sword at all, for such a price.
Jonathan Brown
Make sure and commit sudoku weeb
Sebastian Jones
Good lord, his mom in the mirror
Luke Morales
someone post the old guy with his sword. hes in his underwear and in front of a huge celtic style flag/banner standing on a ladder
Ian Hill
good advice.
Hunter Stewart
I gotcha senpai
Jayden Kelly
Brody Wright
I wish I had context for why he wanted to take this picture.
William Smith
Dicks, you're all dicks
Gabriel Ross
I just like to think that its inevitable if you're the kind of person who owns a shitty katana, a giant banner, and a ladder
Adam Nelson
can someone PLEASE shoop this man into pic related?
Nicholas Peterson
Every time I look at it I have more questions. Every single thing in that photo is bizarre.
I like to imagine this pic is Russell Crowe's less famous brother at a casting for either The Last Samurai or a live action Samurai Jack movie.
Oliver Cook
>no fucks given
he's clearly more badass than any of the manlets pictured in this thread
Xavier Edwards
The cheapness of that robe is what gets me
Nathan Edwards
Most arguments on this site today come from being unable to tell if someone is being ironic but just to be safe.
Maybe instead of wasting money on a useless weeb stick and end up looking like one of the losers in this thread, you could make it up to your mother by taking her out to a restaurant since I know you didn't do that on Sunday you fucking salad dodging weeb.
Noah Morris
Or maybe you can mind your own god damn business instead of getting anal over what other people acquire for cutlery.
Charles Evans
Don't. For that price you're going to get some Chinese junk replica that will break and ricochet it's tip into your face if you try to use it. Save up like $600 and buy a rusted WWII vintage item off of eBay as your starter piece, if you really need a functional grade weapon. Look into higher end stuff later on. You really can't buy a decent edged weapon for under $100 aside from knives and machetes. Keep your money for now and save for better things., Quality over quantity user.
Josiah Flores
pretty sure it's literally just sheets. Look at the creases,
Cooper Morris
Oh fuck I'm almost positive those are hotel sheets now that you mention it.
Noah Sanchez
>Wear hotel sheets to pose with your $30 mall katana
>End up with pubic lice
Logan Ortiz
oh fuck, how did I miss that reference?
brb, commiting sudoku...
Jeremiah Nguyen
Anything below$500-600 is going to be utter trash but if you just want to kill some water bottles then the cheap $100 amazon ones will work. Just make sure someone has a photo of the handle off. To make sure it isn't some shitty rat weld tang that will snap off the moment you hit a water melon.
Zachary Carter
What are some good katanas for around 1k-2k USD? Also why does Jow Forums hate katanas so much? They're easily one of the best melee weapons for unarmored opponents, and actually a good home defense weapon if you have high ceilings/big open house, and can't get a gun.
knowledgeglue.com
This was done by an old man using a cheap wall mounted katana. If you have an actual high quality katana, and you're younger, and relatively strong/fast with good skill you could easily kill any intruders very quickly.
Gavin Powell
Obligatory japanese short sword communist removal video:
Austin Davis
There's been a sort of cult around the katana since the 90s if not earlier due to weaboos and nerd fascination with all things Japan. They'd fellate the katana to no end, so people counter shitposted them back super hard.
Of course nowadays there aren't anywhere near as many unironic weaboos anymore (mostly ironic ones who're doing it to b8 people). But people still think the katana are shit just because they were around for those days or grew up seeing all the anti-katana memes and believe them to be genuine.
Reality is that they were fine for time and period they were designed for. They're not going to cut through tanks or anything, but they're not going explode the moment they touch anything remotely harder than flesh.
>What are some good katanas for around 1k-2k USD
the most expensive Hanweis
Dynasty Forge
Kaneie
Colton Walker
these things are why I am a weeaboo
>ywn own the knife that killed the rise of communism in japan
Isaac Allen
Masahiro "Assemble Yourself" kit: Practical, entry-level katana.
Grayson Thompson
Listen to this man
Nathaniel Myers
This. Really anything less than a grand is probably gonna be shit steel with a welded tang that'll break off the forst timr you try to cut something substantial. But if you're just a faggot weeb looking for a douchey wall decoration 100 bucks should be fine
Wyatt Kelly
>Never take a photo of yourself with it.
>You should have a genuine reason for owning it, such as a collection of anachronistic weapons.
I broke these 2 rules. What is my fine.
Jackson Roberts
>There's been a sort of cult around the katana since the 90s
That's when I was gifted a katana by my mom. I asked her to buy me some blades from the Philippines during the 90's, but she claimed that almost all were confiscated. Ended up with a sweet nihonto though to live out my highlander fantasy.
R8 me please.
Joshua Price
This is such a meme. You think that you can't get a good sword for less than 1k? It's absolutely untrue. You can get a good quality katana for 200, and a mediocre quality katana for 120-150. I don't know much about other swords, but I assume it's similar.
At 1k the diminishing returns in quality have already appeared, and the difference between a 500 dollar sword and 1k dollar sword often has more to do with appearance and material quality rather than actual performance (Not that these things aren't worth paying for- they are. But they are both going to handle similarly.)
Jordan Campbell
Holy shit the weeb poorfag in this post. Look up a forged full-tang katana on the googlez bruh you can't even get a shitty cold-rolled steel blade setup for less than $400 stop being butthurt because the wall decoration you got at the fair is shit
Jackson Nelson
I'd suggest the Hi Point C9.
It costs about as much as your shit tier katana, and you look like just as much of a faggot for owning it.
Added bonus of actually being able to use it as home defense.
Noah Roberts
OP please do a stupid edgy pose with the katana you buy and post it on Jow Forums
Jayden Butler
Learn how to forge your own special snowflake katana.
If you're gonna weeb it up, might as well go all the way.
Caleb Kelly
I don't live in muttmerica, it's not so simple to acquire a gun here.
Benjamin Jackson
So sad. Many such cases.
Gavin Ramirez
The answer is simple, time to move.
Gabriel Allen
A therapist
Jose Reyes
chenessinc.com
Angel Smith
The ABSOLUTE CHEAPEST battle ready kat is the Musashi Folded Elite
You DO NOT sharpen kats unless you've spent MONTHS OR YEARS learning the technique. They're progressively sharpened without a bevel.
Nathan Campbell
Maybe I'm wrong
Blake Roberts
>Added bonus of actually being able to use it as home defense.
knowledgeglue.com
Justin Sanders
Katanas are too long and pricey get yoself a wakazashi it seem more practical and easier to use than full length blade, handmadesword company makes a good ones for cheap, got a wakazashi 1080 steel with differential hardening for 260 American
Wyatt Jackson
>What should I look for?
More money.
Jordan Diaz
that was such a clean kill, Asanuma died on impact
Kevin Morris
Josiah Long
Jackson Howard
Henry Moore
Josiah Torres
Jow Forumsing the picture of this with the caption don't let evil take hold or something similar
Elijah Thomas
been thinking about getting one from them. But I left my katana days back in high school. But their carbon steel ones are sooooo cheap right now. 150 bucks gets you a fuck around beater that'll probably cut my leg off.
James Collins
>the power of trips
Austin Hall
@1:49
>THE SHOCK WAVE
just like my Japanese animes
Jack Anderson
I've always though shirasayas looked cool on stands. Theirs is pretty tempting.
Jayden Miller
You should read everything at this site first:
sword-buyers-guide.com
Michael Miller
Nice, but Do you have The Whole set!?!?
Oliver Edwards
Look, my dude. With that kind of money, you might as well just buy a glock.