Collect any cool weapons?

[scoey1953]

Kantana, Wakizashi, and Tanto

These Japanese swords are the real deal. Sharp and dangerous.
They were not made in Hong Kong, nor have dull rounded blades.
This set runs about twenty thousand. I hope to go see a
real sword maker when I visit Japan. I have learned you can not
purchase a sword from a master Kantana crafsman, for the Katanas are
considered cherished works of art and can not leave the country.
However, the way around that is to purchase
a Kantana from his top apprentice, which perhaps will be possible.

I own a total of five Katanas...plus four wooden practice swords.
Practice Sai, and a few throwing stars which I found in Chinatown.
I had always an interest in Kendo, and hope to learn someday...perhaps after my
trip from Japan.

[Call Me Wesley]

1. These are yours?

Nice.

Here's a detail of mine:

[democracyindanger]

2. You can't export true Japanese swords anymore

A Japanese law passed a few years back prohibits the export of swords. Something about preserving cultural heritage.

[scoey1953]

3. You are right...however

The laws say that you may purchase from a master swords maker's apprentice.
I have learned this from a person I know who lives in Japan and knows
a particular swords crafter.

[hunter]

4. A few rocks, sticks and bones.

[Dukkha]

5. three LOTR replica swords

Ringwraith, Witchking, & Sting.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. All martial arts weapons mostly...

Katana (not from Japan, but still very sturdy and sharp), nunchukus, tuifa, sai, tekka, eku, naginata. Also, an M1 Garand (real, but I don't have ammo, not have I ever shot it) and a billy club, plus 20 or so knives.

[SteppingRazor]

7. Let's see...

I've got a cheaper, knock-off katana/wakizashi/tanto combo that hangs on my wall.

A bowie knife, a Spyderco police model knife, a Swiss army knife, a Persian dagger, and a short sheath knife which I keep stabbed through the hole in my girlfriend's piggy bank (I got a weird sense of humor).

Also a .22LR target pistol, a .357 Colt Python, a .40SW Heckler & Koch USP and a really old .45 revolver that I like to tell myself is from the Wild West (through it's really probably from the 1930s or so. I could always do some homework and track down its history through its serial number, but I'm much too lazy for that. Besides, I don't want my Wild West dream to be crushed)

[scoey1953]

9. If you guys have pictures...post them...

Would love to see some of these items.
Here is one of my throwing Chinese
throwing stars. This one is next to my Ipod so you can see its size.

[SteppingRazor]

25. Sorry, no.

But nothing I have looks all that special. Pretty standard stuff that you'd see with any google image search. Except the katana/waizashi/tanto combo, which have very ornate, matching hilts.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. What are practice sai? Rubber?

BTW, you can learn how to throw sai, too. I used to be really good at it. Pick out leaves on the lawn and freak out the neighbors.

[scoey1953]

10. No they are metal...just dull tips

Unlike those Sai used in the movie "Elektra", the pair I own are made of
probably stainless steel. The tips are rounded. Suppose they could still be a good
defensive weapon, but thats about it. Not sure you could harm anyone with them
unless hit in a vital spot. (NOT THAT I WOULD..BELIEVE ME.)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. No sai really have sharp tips.

The Shureido ones are a bit more pointed, but most of them are rounded. Trust me, even the rounded ones can do damage. Someone in my dojo dropped a rounded one on her foot and it went through. They're also not meant just for stabbing with the point. The sides are used in strikes, as in the butt (basically punching with it).

[ContraBass Black]

16. Those will easily go through somebody

If you push hard enough.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Exactly, the average woman stomping on a man's foot can put a high-heel

through the foot. Putting a sai through a person would be pretty easy.

[Jed Dilligan]

11. I've got one of these

These aren't pictures of mine, but it looks just like them.

Anyone know care to guess what it is?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. Bayonet?

[Jed Dilligan]

14. On the right track

It would be issued to troops who would not carry a bayonet.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. A Navy knife of some sort?

I don't know. It looks similar to the bayonet knife on the M1 I have.

[Jed Dilligan]

17. Also close

It was invented for irregular troops who performed seaborne raids...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Navy Seals?

[Jed Dilligan]

21. Before that.

British commandos in World War II--the original green berets.

The knife is a Fairbairn-Sykes dagger designed for the commandos by two Shanghai International Police officers (hence the name). They claimed it was the most effective hand to hand weapon ever created, which is probably balderdash, but it did slice a lot of Nazi jugular veins. The Paras eventually adopted it too, but the commandos were around before the Paras.

Mine looks used.

[Richard Steele]

20. That's the WWII Fairbairn-Sykes "Commando Dagger", pattern 2.

[Jed Dilligan]

22. Bingo!

I just gave it away below, glad to see you in just in time to get the biscuit.

[EstimatedProphet]

28. British SAS Commando knife, looks like

Alright, so I'm late. Sue me.

[Jed Dilligan]

31. "Sue me once, shame on, shame on, if you sue me twice,

well, you know, you can't get sued again."

The SAS did carry them as well as the various Commandos, SBS, Chindits and most other irregular British and Colonial forces.

on edit, here's a great shot of it in use:

[Broken_Hero]

23. only one's I like

I can hardly find...I'm big into battle axes and what not, and I haven't ever found one, that was big. I find hatchet sized weapons, and small hand axes. What i'm talking about is Conan's Axe in the movie...:) Only axed I got is a double bladed axe....

A lot of my brothers are into swords and daggers. My brother daniel, last summer bought two polearms, three swords, 5 daggers, a flail, and a mace...the mace was pretty sweet...:)

[EstimatedProphet]

24. Define cool weapons

I've got about 35 or so swords of different styles, including a few Paul Chens- a basket-hilt claymore, a French rapier, and a Practical Katana. I have a couple display sets of katanas, including all the Highlander series. I have a morningstar which I got in Spain (if you don't know what that is, it's a spiked mace ball on a short chain), a couple broadswords, 2 full-length claymores, a couple double-blade axes, some throwing knives, some throwing spikes, some throwing stars, and several firearms including a Ruger P95 and a Taurus 6" .357 (never fired).

[Call Me Wesley]

27. Hey!

I've got the Taurus, too. Never fired as well.

[EstimatedProphet]

29. Dude! We're Taurus twins!

[Call Me Wesley]

30. Nah,

if ever, we're TaurusTaurus twins! At least from my side. :woohoo:

So, let us never fire it!

[LouisianaLiberal]

26. Nothing of any value.

I have four fencing sabers, an epee, a practice katana and wakizashi, and a copy of a napoleonic sabre. I haven't fenced in years. Unfortunately.

Looked into Kendo, but there are no schools or groups nearby.

[Wcross]

32. I have a couple of these.......

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

33. Several pocket knives, a thumbstud knife made into a gravity blade

and a cheap balisong (I love that thing though. It's good for hours of goofing around until you start cutting your fingers)