Originally posted by rollakid+Apr 24 2005, 23:37 --><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rollakid @ Apr 24 2005, 23:37 )</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Cypress@Apr 24 2005, 23:28
i love katana and those samurai sword!!but too bad here cannot find and cant bring back to malaysia!!!and the price also very expansive <!--emo&:ph34r:--><img src='style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle'
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you can either get iaido kanata or shinken. iaido katana would cost anywhere from 1k ringgit to 6k ringgit, depend on what type you get. these are for sports (iaido, duh), which is like kendo but you use real katana-look-alike sword, weight bout the same, but its not sharp(but i bet by now you have realize that you still can hurt ppl with it, probably more than the kendo can). its made from duralumin, same material that is used for aeroplanes, it is used cuz no matter how you try to sharpen it it won't be sharp enough to cut things. saw from the website will take 2-3 weeks for it to arrive, cuz they will made one on order.
shinken is the real thing lar.. take 6 months to make one and would cost something like 40-50k ringgit <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/default/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle'
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info i found in this website
http://www.jidai.jp/ <!--emo&:P--><img src='style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle'
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dude thanks for da info!!!i saw some b4 tahts really katana wif high tech gadget la!!damd chun!!and some really expansive coz traditional katana!!!!see oso slurp jor!!but too expansive!!better put the money in car!!!but if have extra money will go for it coz is a nice art!!!plus this kind of katana have those mystery feel :ph34r: