The Power of a Samurai Sword

[Plurralbles]

Cover the cheese with half inch plate armor and see what happens!

 

[Hawgh]

Cover the cheese with half inch plate armor and see what happens!

Construct a replica of traditional samurai battle regalia from salty crackers, and adorn the cheese with it, then cut it.

 

[mrF00bar]

Not a real samurai sword, just very sharp.

 

[asinann]

Katanas are very over-rated. Sure, folding steel 1000 times allows it to be incredibly sharp, but incredibly brittle. They're only effective against flesh.

Considering the effort of making one, it's embarrassing that they snap like toys against another sword.

<url=http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-slicing-a-sword.html>lolwut?

OT: Were he trained in kenjutsu, he would have been able to slice through not just the cheese, but the can as well.

Won't let me view the vid. What do they cut?

It showed a modern steel katana used properly won't break when parrying, while if you're an idiot and block edge on edge the blade will snap down near the handle. But the stainless steel blade (just like I said it would) didn't snap, but was cut through by a good steel blade.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

i don't watch anime anymore and the series i DID used to watch didn't have any swords in it

also i know how sharp katanas can get since i own 3 (3 real ones mind you, full tang folded steel), and the bullet thing was from a youtube clip. i wouldn't ever recommend trying to take on a gunner with a sword .. even if by some fluke of nature you manage to slice the bullet .. you'll end up with 2 bullet holes in you instead of 1

Fair enough, now show me a video of someone cutting through a block of cheese with nothing but the swords own weight, unless it's cream cheese, good luck with that.

 

[vodkainferno]

I'm more of a scythe kind of guy...
OT: The way the emo weebo used it, it is just a glorified cheese knife.
Not a WMD...

 

[Julianking93]

Of course that's what Katana's are used for; to cut cheese.

 

[Jolly Madness]

Katanas are very over-rated. Sure, folding steel 1000 times allows it to be incredibly sharp, but incredibly brittle. They're only effective against flesh.

Considering the effort of making one, it's embarrassing that they snap like toys against another sword.

<url=http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-slicing-a-sword.html>lolwut?

OT: Were he trained in kenjutsu, he would have been able to slice through not just the cheese, but the can as well.

Won't let me view the vid. What do they cut?

It showed a modern steel katana used properly won't break when parrying, while if you're an idiot and block edge on edge the blade will snap down near the handle. But the stainless steel blade (just like I said it would) didn't snap, but was cut through by a good steel blade.

That's a point, most dimwits assume that you parry edge-on-edge, that will lead to the blades being chipped and they're ruined pretty fast.
And on a different note, if you cut someone's arm, you don't even have to slice through the bone for it to be fatal, dying's probably the easiest thing you can attempt.

 

[TheZapper]

You are wasting that sword on cheese. You can destroy much larger things with it, like beds.

 

[Plurralbles]

Cover the cheese with half inch plate armor and see what happens!

Construct a replica of traditional samurai battle regalia from salty crackers, and adorn the cheese with it, then cut it.

Eh, maybe that would be a better plan...

In a state fair i went to people made life-sized butter statues of the Wright brothers... So one could probably use cheese instead and do the same thing and put traditional armor on those!

That would be very cool.

 

[LewsTherin]

[ Were he trained in kenjutsu, he would have been able to slice through not just the cheese, but the can as well.

You can cut through a tin can with a pocketknife. You can cut through cheese with your finger. If he was trained in Kenjutsu, I doubt he would be using a Nippon-to to cut cheese. Anyway, You are supposed to use slicing strokes with even the humble cheese-knife; it's how the blade is designed.

 

[Desert Tiger]

A samurai sword is all of these things, but it's also fragile. Take a traditional sword to it and it'll shatter.

 

[Daffy F]

So basically you cut cheese with a sword.

You say it like there's something wrong with that.

Next up, I expect to see Cheese vs Chainsaw. Let's go, internet, make this happen!

The internet can make ANYTHING happen. *Hopes for a video of chainsaw + Cheese*

 

[Break]

NO. Just... no. You cannot seriously still be defending the idea that swords were folded hundreds of times. I know they folded the blade. I know they covered it with clay and ash and whatnot. I'm not disagreeing that it was quite an intricate process, or that katanas were good swords.

Hundreds of folds. Not folding hundreds of times. I'm pretty sure that anyone who's referred to numbers larger than twenty have been talking about the layers, or they were trying to avoid absolute declarations. It's not an unusual use of the word, I would've thought.

The OP's not really worth commenting on, since he's been corrected plenty. Really, you'd think somebody would do a token level of research into how these things are used, before spendingHel money on something like that. Hell, learn how to hold it properly, at least.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Cover the cheese with half inch plate armor and see what happens!

Construct a replica of traditional samurai battle regalia from salty crackers, and adorn the cheese with it, then cut it.

Psh, please. Go for historical accuracy.

Construct a replica of traditional samurai battle regalia from salty crackers, adorn the cheese with it, then stab it.

 

[Zepren]

And btw, its scottish cheddar, that stuff is like edible rock.

 

[Zepren]

And on the topic of all the "Weeabo"s being dropped. so? Doesnt everyone wanna be japanese? If you say no your a liar

 

[Cyanin]

This is silly. You can't just go out and buy a damn genuine (and sharp?) katana. Swords need to be sharpened properly. If it was, you'd not only be able to slice through that cheese, you'd be able to... something easier... through that cheese.

Glide my man, the word you're looking for is glide. =D