Cutting Edge

[BIG]

Hi all,

nice competition..

Best Regards

[Stephen]

Check background for the togi bending the blades back to straight ...first ol boy in white....hope these are Iai blades as they take a beating on that block.

[Fuuten]

This makes me wonder why they don't use a vertical strawbundle.. Still seems like quite a crude way, and its not like they're testing the blades till they are destroyed so why the hard block?

[Brian]

Makes me queasy watching it. And I get the feeling those are not modern blades...

Yes, that guy straightening the blade makes me

I know they probably know what they are doing and are experts, but it still doesn't make me feel better about it.

 

Brian

[Stephen]

Think its the head cut that their doing

, Brian a Japanese fellow was looking at a sword on table next to mine, did what the guy did in video, the seller was Pd off  as he was walking away, I told him to check that bend that was holding up sales, yep dead straight. It sold later that day, guess its how its done on the fly.

[Jussi Ekholm]

The stand is usually soft wood, and it seems there is also bit of a cushion between stand & target in this video. They are practicing/displaying horizontal cutting of makiwara. If a sword would be severely damaged in a cut like that I would think it as a poor sword. Hitting soft wood should not be devastating to a sword.