I am trying to buy a good functional katana for iaido and occasional tamashigiri.
Please give me your recommendation about below mention site. My budget is including shipping $100.
http://www.ryansword.com/
I am trying to buy a good functional katana for iaido and occasional tamashigiri.
Please give me your recommendation about below mention site. My budget is including shipping $100.
http://www.ryansword.com/
I'll 2nd what Neil wrote. You won't get "good" for under $100. You'll be lucky to get "good" for under $1,000. I would consider saving your money. The stuff on that website isn't worth spending your hard earned money on if you ask me.
Christopher Covington
Daito-ryu aikijujutsu
Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryu heiho
All views expressed here are my own and don't necessarily represent the views of the arts I practice, the teachers and people I train with or any dojo I train in.
This brings up a interesting issue. All too often I see or know of people buying cheap stuff to use in some real application.
Are there any links to reccomended suppliers with good stuff for actual application?
(No, I am not speaking of cutting off heads![]()
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Richard Scardina
Yours in Budo,
---Brian---
I guess we have a problem with the wording here as well. A "Katana" is definitely not what you are looking for. Katana (or Shinken) is a real japanese sword made in the traditional manner. You are probably looking for an Iaito. That's all you need in the first few years of Iaido training. But be aware: That's not a "real" sword in the strict sense as Iaito are not sharp and you won't be able to sharpen it as it is a zinc-alluminium alloy.
A basic Iaito will cost you around 300 USD.
I disagree on two counts.
First, the OP said he wanted to do tameshigiri; an iaito will not do that. (Swordstore's "iaito that cut" are misnamed, and are actually shinken, IMO.)
Second, "katana" is more a reference to the type of sword and how it is worn, not a reference to place or method of manufacture. "Nihonto" would be more accurate for "a real Japanese sword made in the traditional manner."
Yours in Budo,
---Brian---