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Old 2004-12-08, 06:11 PM   [Ignore Me] #16
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Originally Posted by martyr
each successive round chipped away at the thing until there was a flat enough area that one of the rounds split the blade
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Old 2004-12-08, 06:18 PM   [Ignore Me] #17
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Damn... I can't imagine what a real japanese folded steel katana could withstand, those things were forged for years and year until they were perfect. But with the last one found selling at 500k+ I can imagine why no one would want to try.
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Old 2004-12-08, 07:06 PM   [Ignore Me] #18
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wow it was so awsome how the one bullet hit and shattered and impacted the cinderblocks in a whol bunch of little puffs of dust
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Old 2004-12-08, 08:00 PM   [Ignore Me] #19
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Holy shit- it bisected a fucking .50 BMG round.
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Old 2004-12-08, 09:15 PM   [Ignore Me] #20
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yeah.. imagine what it could do to your head.. scarry shit.

my favorite test is the silk scarf test. drop the scarf from about a foot above the blade and it'll slice the silk clean in half. silk is so strong for how light it is and all you have to do is lay it on the blade and it cuts right through.. yeah, don't wanna fuck around with that little weapon.
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Old 2004-12-08, 10:16 PM   [Ignore Me] #21
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Are swords legal? Do they need a permit or anything?
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Old 2004-12-08, 10:29 PM   [Ignore Me] #22
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No permit needed as far as I know, if you do I'm in trouble because I have seven swords.
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Old 2004-12-08, 10:30 PM   [Ignore Me] #23
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Originally Posted by FlamingPotato-J
Are swords legal? Do they need a permit or anything?
a sharp actual weapon i believe does require some kind of legal knowledge of its existence. i mean, i'm not sure, but, i think a weapon like a katana requires legal documentation.

my older brother's best friend, court, went back to Japan when he turned 18 and came back four years later fully trained in 100 some martial arts and with the ability to artfully and skillfully weild a katana. for ceremonies and things of that nature he wears his swords (one half of his family is Japanese, the other is American) including to his wedding. He has to have a type of permit, i believe, but only when wearing them out like that. it's like a concealed carry permit or something. i dunno. it's weird. i might have just misunderstood what he was explaining to me, but i doubt it.
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Old 2004-12-09, 07:04 AM   [Ignore Me] #24
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that is awesome, I have a few swords but obviously they aren't to that level or forgery, that is well impressive through...
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Old 2004-12-09, 08:30 AM   [Ignore Me] #25
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Originally Posted by oddfish
a sharp actual weapon i believe does require some kind of legal knowledge of its existence. i mean, i'm not sure, but, i think a weapon like a katana requires legal documentation.

my older brother's best friend, court, went back to Japan when he turned 18 and came back four years later fully trained in 100 some martial arts and with the ability to artfully and skillfully weild a katana. for ceremonies and things of that nature he wears his swords (one half of his family is Japanese, the other is American) including to his wedding. He has to have a type of permit, i believe, but only when wearing them out like that. it's like a concealed carry permit or something. i dunno. it's weird. i might have just misunderstood what he was explaining to me, but i doubt it.
Thay may be because he's capable of killing a small army due to his training, rather than the sword itself.

Swords of incredibly deadly potential can be purchased in the UK without a permit (although I dunno how it works in the US).

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Old 2004-12-09, 08:49 AM   [Ignore Me] #26
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Originally Posted by TotalBiscuit
Thay may be because he's capable of killing a small army due to his training, rather than the sword itself.

Swords of incredibly deadly potential can be purchased in the UK without a permit (although I dunno how it works in the US).

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You'd be lucky to find one of incredibly deadly potential though... most of the swords I've seen are very cheap.

I'd love a decent katana or tanto.
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Old 2004-12-09, 08:53 AM   [Ignore Me] #27
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Originally Posted by Fragmatic
You'd be lucky to find one of incredibly deadly potential though... most of the swords I've seen are very cheap.

I'd love a decent katana or tanto.
Mate, mine goes through thick branches, it'll go through flesh pretty easily.

That's a cheap one. The better swords manufactured by Cold Steel will cut through entire phonebooks in a single swipe and can be stabbed easily through solid car roofs.

That's Cold Steel stuff, that's nothing compared to real Japanese steel

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Old 2004-12-09, 08:58 AM   [Ignore Me] #28
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Originally Posted by TotalBiscuit
Mate, mine goes through thick branches, it'll go through flesh pretty easily.

That's a cheap one. The better swords manufactured by Cold Steel will cut through entire phonebooks in a single swipe and can be stabbed easily through solid car roofs.

That's Cold Steel stuff, that's nothing compared to real Japanese steel

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Where'd you get it from?

All I've seen are cheap �40 "hardened steel" (AKA - Thwack something hard with it and it'll break) things.

There's actually a martial arts store in camden and one off carnaby street that sells apparently pretty good ones, or I could always try chinatown... just a bitch getting them back home.
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Old 2004-12-09, 10:01 AM   [Ignore Me] #29
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Blades-UK.

And that's nothing more than a cheap rat-tail tang katana. By all rights it should have broken by now but it's obviously quite well made.

A standard Paul Chen Practical Katana will slice and dice pretty much anything. With a high-carbon steel surgical sharpened blade and a full tang (blade goes all the way to the back of the hilt and is then bolted into place, very strong), it's really nice.. and that's just their bottom of the range manufactured sword. My best sword is also a Paul Chen but it's not sharpened. Still however, it's gone through anything I've accidently swung it at, I dread to think how evil it would be sharpened

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Old 2004-12-09, 11:29 AM   [Ignore Me] #30
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Just to let you know that bullet is not 140mm. THats its length. There is a big diffrence between length and width. 50 cals are 12.5 mm 140mm is artillary sized.
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