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11428655 No.11428655[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Guys I just got myself a katana.
How should I train with it?
How do I sharpen it?
ANy genral advice?

>> No.11428659

>>11428655
Why would you buy a katana if you don't know how to use it or aren't in Kendo?

>> No.11428678

Machete > Katana

>> No.11428679

>>11428659
It was a gift.

>> No.11428685

Put that away and get yourself a wooden training sword or else you will just hurt yourself.

>> No.11428686

>>11428655
>How should I train with it?
You shouldn't.
>How do I sharpen it?
You don't.
>ANy genral advice?
Buy a rack, display it, never touch it except to clean the dust off.

>> No.11428695

post that video

>> No.11428704

>>11428655
To sharpen it cut broadswords with the katana.

>> No.11428708
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11428708

Put on a fedora, trenchcoat, and a pair of aviator sunglasses
Channel your latent bushido spirit and start swinging it around
Take photos and post them online

Or just put it away because having one makes you look like a weeaboo dumbass. If you want to train yourself in kendo, use one of these or you'll just hurt yourself.

>> No.11428719

>>11428708
I'm channelling my inner bishoujo spirit.

>> No.11428732

Do a dragon twister

>> No.11428738

>>11428679
It probabbly isn't high quality then. It probably couldn't even chop through bone without breaking, but I still wouldn't volunteer as a test subject. Katanas made outside of Japan and mass produced won't put up any real fight against anything, idk who you would be fighting anyway. A sold ripp off of a katana that will be higher quality is going to fetch you from any where near $400 - $1000 imported from China. There are American craftsmen who are blacksmith swordsman, but you're looking at a few grand to buy from them. Even then they might not sell you one unless you are Secind Don or higher.
>>11428708
Are you in Kendo? Did it mess up your back when swinging it?

>> No.11428744

>>11428685
>a wooden training sword
have the wooden sword. What to do now.

>> No.11428748

>>11428695
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLWzH_1eZsc
this one?

>> No.11428753

Buy a sword that won't bend in half if it hits another sword.

>> No.11428759

>>11428738
Very few of them ever were of high quality. Bows are the superior battlefield weapon. Katana were mass produced in order for the wielders to have several backups.

You know why they folded the steel? Because of the amazing ton of impurities found in Japanese iron. That fancy word used for the steel used by ancient katana crafters? The Europeans called that "pig iron". Look it up.

Modern katanas are made with superior steel and are sturdier, but very useless in a battle when everyone else in the world knows about rifles and tanks.

It's a show piece. Mount it on the wall and enjoy the nice gift of decoration.

>> No.11428771
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11428771

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Bastard Sword" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much worse than that. Much, much worse than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 120 Yen (that's about $1) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can't even cut wooden boards with my katana.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce some of the biggest pieces of shit known to mankind.

Katanas are barely half as sharp as European swords and half as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can't cut through at all. I'm pretty sure a katana would break trying to cut a knight wearing full plate with any kind of slash.

Ever wonder why feudal Japan never bothered conquering Europe? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Knights and their Oakeshott types X through XXII of destruction. Even in World War II, Japanese soldiers targeted the men with the mamelukes first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the worst sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require worse stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:

(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d4 Damage
x2 Crit
-2 to hit and damage
Can never count as Masterwork

(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d6 Damage
x2 Crit
-1 to hit and damage
Can never count as Masterwork

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Katanas need to do much less in d20, see my new stat block.

>> No.11428787

>>11428771
But they have a good attack speed and if you put saphires and a skull in them for lifeleech and cold damage, they can be pretty good neat.

>> No.11428784

>OP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb3UobSZl34

>> No.11428803

>>11428771
wow /tg/ is here.

>> No.11428817

>>11428771
Hi /tg/! :3

>> No.11428833

Someone post the anime gif of the katana clashing with the giant long sword.

>> No.11428860

>>11428659
Kendo use Bokto and Shinai, Iaito use katana.

>>11428655
Join an Iaito club and learn how to handle it.

I would not fool around with this, specially if it's one of the Carbone steel +/- 60 hrc Rockwell blade. You'll cut yourself for sure, and fucking badly.

>> No.11428868

>>11428686
Wallhangers aren't made from 1095 carbons steel core with 1065 wrapping it, folded, sharpened, and differentially hardened.
Wallhangers also don't cut 3 stalks of bamboo tied together.
This one does.
Blade is from dynasty forge, the Tsuka, Tsuba, Seppa and Saya were all bought from different places.
Kind of a custom fit.

>> No.11428888

>>11428771
roll for anal circumference

>> No.11428891

I want to have a sword fight with real swords and armor. Like real LARPing.

>> No.11428895

>>11428759
>It's a show piece. Mount it on the wall and enjoy the nice gift of decoration.
Pretty much this. All those ultra-sharp edo period katana have all something in common: They were barely used in actual combat. It was nothing more than a status symbol for the bushi caste. Take a sengoku katana which was actually made for battle and all those katana enthusiasts would be heavily disappointed.

>> No.11428907

>>11428771
/tg/-oniisan!

>> No.11428913

>>11428888
It's critical!

>> No.11428918

>>11428907
>>11428817
>>11428803
i hate to break it to you but that copypasta has been seen in /jp/ at least a hundred times to the point where nobody actually cares where it's originally from

>> No.11428938

BASED /tg/ in the house

>> No.11428932

>>11428868

>and differentially hardened.
I think it's called Tamahagane blade.

>> No.11428933

>>11428918
Shh, /tg/ is here. Try to look your best.

>> No.11428936

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAkCLpMtjlM

>> No.11428946

>>11428936
Was this guy on Tosh?

>> No.11428952

>>11428918
Please be kind to our fa/tg/uy guests.

>> No.11428959

>>11428938
>>11428952
is this like the final form of the "us fa/tg/uys, right :)" shit that was plaguing /jp/ a few months ago

>> No.11428981

>>11428655
what a weaboo fag.

>> No.11429006

>>11428959
Are you talking about actual fa/tg/uys being friendly, or anti-fa/tg/uys making jokes about "us fa/tg/uys"?

>> No.11429103

>>11428759

To be fair, Europeans also used pattern welding and folded their swords at least until the invention of the blast furnace. After that they were able to create good mono steel so they could make swords with the same quality without all the annoying processes.

>> No.11429202

Okay technical question.
When I swing it Based on how I hold it it can make two sounds. one acute the other is not.
Should I try to swing it so I can hear the acute sound?

>> No.11429264

>>11429202
Swing at less than 90 degrees.

>> No.11429351

Oh my, someone in this thread actually thinks there are high quality katanaz.
btw they're not even specific to Japan

>> No.11429399

>>11428771
>Ever wonder why feudal Japan never bothered conquering Europe?
Because they could never get through korea or china.

>> No.11429424

>>11429006
The latter. The occasional /tg/ visitor can be obnoxious but the ratio of shitposters to actual visitors was ten to one.

>> No.11429443

Don't be this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m47NiCAfLLg

Ouch!

>> No.11429489

As someone who actually knows about nihontou, I don't care to read through the thread.

If you intend on actually using it, then you should be doing iaido. If you do iaido then you will be training with a wooden sword for a few of years until your rank up. Then an aluminum sword. It's not like kendo, there is no combat or competition like kendo.

If you can't muster that kind of dedication you're a danger to yourself and those around you. Or you could just hang it up on the wall. Either way, you need to oil it and put it away for the time being.

Even if you do take up iaido, and get to the actual cutting part you need a sword up to the task made of medium or high carbon steel and not stainless bullshit. Differential hardening, folded, layered is all nice in theory but it just adds to the cost and was historically done because labor was cheaper than steel. During the Tokugawa period, katanas weren't even used and how fancy your sword was was just a pissing contest.

As far as sharpening it. You don't. You will mess up the kissaki and the polish without the skill and experience to do it right. I own hundreds of dollars of sharpening stones and I don't even use them on swords, they're for knives. Amassing an appropriate collection of stones for swords can easily costs thousands.

Video related, it's you.

http://www.break.com/video/ugc/shopping-network-host-stabbed-by-katana-173560

Or you could get a fedora and a trench coat.

>> No.11429572

>>11429489
>iaido
Iaido was a recent invention there is better schools. Kenjutsu, battou etc. If you try to use Iaido with a real sword you will carve your thumb up.

>> No.11429590

>>11429572
You don't even know what kenjutsu means.

Outside of Japan battou fall under the school of Iaido. Iaido is basically the kata school of swordsmanship, and kendo the sparring school.

>> No.11429598

[ x ] decorative Japanese katana

>> No.11429601
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11429601

>ANy genral advice?

commit seppuku

>> No.11429604

this thread is too edgy

>> No.11429605

>>11429489
EMERGENCY SURGERY
IN THE STUDIO

>> No.11429619
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11429619

>>11429601
Glorious.
The feel when you have not died by the blade before age 20. Modern life is a reched thing a many a time. I was beautiful only last year. Now my body turns to mush slowly while inhured. Justice so little.

>> No.11429651

use the force

>> No.11429661
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11429661

>> No.11429677

What do you call those mini-katanas?

Also are they good at chopping vegetables?

>> No.11429683

>>11429677
It's about all they're good for, really.

>> No.11429688

>>11429677
>>11429683
They're actually for cutting off heads so you can trade them for rice.

If your opponent isn't standing because you killed him without decapitating his head, you grab his top knot with one hand and hack off with head with your tanto.

>> No.11429704

>>11429661
please stop reposting this picture it isn't funny

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