$80 eBay sword vs $180 Honshu D2 Gladiator Sword
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2022
- Buy the Honshu D2 Gladiator Sword from Discount Cutlery (the only vendor I could find that had it in stock) here: www.discountcutlery.net/UC343...
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I gotta say your laid back chilled manner, along with your honesty in the form the captions made me chuckle throughout.
Haha, thanks Adam
If you try your sword on wood, use it on green, or freshly cut stuff. Dead and dried makes it a lot harder and more likely to hurt your blades. I found that out the hard way 😔
Thanks for the tip!
@@realkingcarrot I don't know what kind of wood it was, but I was trying to hack up an old dead bush ,with fairly thick branches. If it were green I coulda sliced right through them. But it was crazy hard and I bent a $120 shinwa
@@joholmes4340 my grandfather was a blacksmith and made swords for reenactments, he always said :
"if you chop wood to check a blades toughness, dont cry like a girl if it breaks on you, its both your fault and the blades fault, blades fault for having a problem that caused the break, and your fault because your stupid enough to smack a piece of sharpened metal on wood like a drunk gorilla, what the hell did you expect, this aint the movies, wood can fuck a blade faster than taking a viagra in a brothel"
My Honshu Gladiator D2 sword arrived with a curved central ridge not aligned with the point of the sword, but rather finishing 1cm up from the point in one side of the blade.
This is typical of the poor quality of United Cutlery products. Unfortunately, I read the reviews too late.
Sheesh, guess I got lucky they sent me a good one. Still waiting on a replacement scabbard from them.
Soak the leather snap strap in water then force it to snap over your handle. Let it dry, it will then be molded properly and fit nicely.
Thanks for the tip
When slicing and cutting, you need to make a 45 degree angle cut. If you cut at 90 degrees you will not have a good clean cut, and it will not be good for the blade either.
Thanks for the tip
Yup that's what I pointed out is going against the grain ,if you don't use a angle of some degree.
Especially until you're really really skilled and stuff ⚖️🦉
I've been ripped off a few times. I bought an $290 vintage Swiss bayonet on Ebay. The handle was falling apart, and the blade was severely pitted- nothing like the photos or description. Thankfully Ebay stepped in. All's well that ends well.
Use the cheap one as a practice piece to learn how to rebuild the grip. As for the Honshu, it's okay. Not all that historically accurate but decent materials. A modern take on the gladius.
Looks like you weren't careful enough handling them and lost your hair 😁.
I have seen two of those hanshu's break ...I hate how they put holes in the blade that's always were they snap.
Dude...that rooster couldn't have timeed it better...as you opened the box to show the sword he crowed...awesome. 😅
c0ck a doodle doo....cock a doodle doo
I thought that you gonna execute the rooster :))
😂When he began with a knife on the wrap i am like "He is about to scratch it"
5 seconds later "Oh! I think I scratched it" 😂 and blames it on the metal.
😂😂
It is the metal. The blade was advertised as D2, which is tool grade abrasion resistant. Definitely shouldn't be scratched by a softer steel.
The 4 small holes are for collecting blood samples for DNA testing purposes just incase your burglar gets away after stabbing him or her.
🤣Lol
The holes are almost at the base of a twenty inch blade, if he gets away after you run him through he's on a mission from God 😂
@realkingcarrot I wouldn't say a thief/burglar is on a mission from God almighty but I would say if he gets away from that deep stabbing he is on a mission filled with Crack Cocaine...Lol
I heard the Lord said he was gonna come like a thief in the night brother
@@realkingcarrot yes to take his people home to paradise to live with him and God the father forever filled with the holy Spirit Amen.
🙏😇🙏
I don't know if you mentioned in the video where you sword came from on eBay. I too got what I think is a junk sword on eBay. They call it, "The Lord Sword" and it was advertised as D2. So just for a quick D2 fix, I purchased it for less than $100. It's very utilitarian and simple in design, but it did come very sharp. I was able to cut through things very easily with it and aside from a non-rounded handle (the sword is just one piece so it's just a flat tang wrapped in some cheap leather like tape), I thought I had a good purchase. But now it's just a couple months later and my blade is now mostly brown. I'm gonna try to polish it up and keep it functional but I think it's not real D2 also. Mine came from Pakistan. I guess that was a bad sign.
"expensive means good" is not necessarily true but when it comes to swords if it's super cheap, the steel probably isn't great. As for your blade turning brown, that's a dead giveaway. D2 isn't that good for swords because it's so rigid, but it's a stainless steel, which doesn't need to be oiled to keep from rusting.
Thanks for the reply. Since I posted that message, I've done a little more "scientific" research on, "The Lord Sword." I took an old absolute POS, medieval-style machete that my dad owned in the 1980s and put them to the test blade for blade. Maybe not a smart idea but it's what I did. Well, long story short, I was able to cut ridges and even small chunks out of the lord sword with a total piece of garbage, wall hanger, imitation machete. One strike into the lord sword bit so deep that I was able to lift the lord sword around with the machete edge and swing it around without it coming off. I don't have a means to determine if it's D2 but I guess my "less than genuinely scientific" study achieved it's purpose. Glad you liked your D2 Honshu blade though. I have some Honshu products and sword-snobs like to belittle the brand but I think they're decent for the price point. Are you still happy with that blade? @@realkingcarrot
I'm still happy with it. You can check out my latest video where I used it to clear an overgrown garden and play fruit ninja with some gourds. I think wall hanger swords are made of stainless, that's why they're "wall hangers" so you don't have to maintain it and it can just be decorative piece, while swords made for combat use spring steel so they don't break. So a stainless blade would be more likely to break, but a spring steel blade would probably chip if you tried to cut into it with stainless. That's just a guess though.
Facts. All us amateur sword geeks will debate the quality and practicality of steels forevermore LOL. 5160 Spring steel (used by Zombie Tools--I have the Apokatana) is often considered a gold standard but your hardcore carbon katana guys will argue that and it will never end. I'll check out your other videos though. Good stuff 🤙 @@realkingcarrot
I don't regret my Albion Crecy one bit.
I mean it's probably a little late now considering it was 2 years ago but milk jugs work the best for a cutting Target
Thanks!
@@realkingcarrot 100% just make sure the milk jug is filled with water
@Aronx-uv6yw for sure, milk is too expensive to waste
You got the Honshu in D2
that should be a tough blade and D2 is better the Stainless Steel for a blade over 12"
and that is will pass that 12" blade point ,
Honshu is United Cutlery Corporation and they make some fun stuff for blade enthusiasts and entry level knife folks to. ⚔️
D2 isn't generally better because it's so rigid but I thought it made sense for the Gladius because it's meant to chop and stab rather than cut and thrust like medieval swords that were made of spring steel. When I get a custom piece it will probably be authentic Damascus.
@@realkingcarrot
You correct to a point, but D2 can do it all depends on the heat treatment, but for a blade of that type it should work for what you mentioned all day long ,the
Thrust and Cut buddy 💪
Rubbish. 420(for xample)is much more adequate for long blades than d2.
7:27 love your hat!!!
The brandon hats are outdated, it's time to have swords with "brandons" name on it.
@@Shadow_Baron I just bought a flag set of 4 with one saying "let's go brandon", another says "fuck biden", and there is a Bettsie Ross flag, and a trump 2024 flag(not sure if i will vote for him in 2024, maybe tho but DeSantis is looking good too!)... But hey I have seen let's go brandon ar15 recievers, and knives, so why not swords too, good idea brother! 😉
Well, at least you have a GREAT hat.
A little oil and elbow grease will stretch that snap on your sheath to make it fit. ALL Honshu swords have that annoying little problem...
Our always supposed to cut and chop on a angle with a blade to help the blade bite ,if you chop or strike dead on you are going pretty much against the grain , so practice on a angle at least until you are more skilled. ⚔️👑⚔️
Bent. Thanks for the info.
Should’ve tried out the new piece on George, then had fried chicken for dinner
Probably needs a good edge put on it from the looks at how it didn't bite into the wood at all , so it's probably a budget steel but it still not a bad sword.
Just not as good as the Honshu in D2 Gladiolus Blade ⚔️
Looks like 1060 high carbon
if it works it works
Never accept anything less than what you paid for it's a bad deal
Um I've had nothing but bad luck on ebay, should stick with cult of Athena and or bud K if you want cheap but good sword's.
That a Xyphos not a Gladius, it looks really good 👊🏽
How do you tell the difference? Are you talking about the first sword?
@nickfernandez6387 the one on top is a xyphos with the brown handle and the tinny cross gaurd
Scam or not, it is a beautiful sword
crepe myrtle is haaaard wood
Learn a lesson from an old man…. If you pay for something it better be what you paid for. You should of returned it, disputed the charge and filed a complaint. If you didn’t get your money back then that second sword cost you $80 more than you think you paid. Don’t be a sucker in life.
That's exactly what I did lol.
@@realkingcarrot 0utstanding! Good man
Sir whats the link of that 80 dollar gladius sword?
If you look up "d2 gladius" on Amazon you'll probably find half a dozen listings for the same piece of junk. I got it for $80 because I offered it on an auction, it wasn't the listed price. You can probably get away with an even lower offer because the guys that run these scams are just looking to make a quick buck.
@@realkingcarrot thanks sir!
Hey friend that is not a scam... No where on the information of that sword did it say it was made perfect...your lack of experience is what happened...not a scam
The listing claimed it was D2 steel and it wasn't D2 steel. It's a scam.
@@realkingcarrot D2 steel does not sell that cheep.. u didn't take that into consideration..
U learnt a hard lesson, you can't trust people that u order from on the internet....
Yes that's exactly what I said, idk what point you're trying to make... I got scammed by someone selling a cheap sword and lying about the product. I sent it back, got a refund, and bought a sword that is actually what it was advertised as
the give away was the leather shealth, it's an classic sign of it being made in pakastan, which means it's bad quailty steel, and crude construction
Do you still have the $80 sword?
No, I returned it for a full refund and reported the posting for false advertisement.
steel should always defeat wood...if it doesn't then it is NOT good steel. the fact that they tell you not to strike tree branches shows that they are using cheap steel....Honshu is a BUDK type of blade, cool looking but quality is not there....if they made there blades in CPM 3v or 80crv2 they would be worth their price but not with that 7cr crap!