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wuyeah

wuyeah

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Just saw a few Hibben pro Thrower on sale, remind me of those HK movies i have watched when i was kid. Serious want them just because...childhood memory.

wondering if anyone play with them at all? are those knife any good? i heard they are made in taiwan though. chinese steel......hmmm

i am debating since living in NYC, you don't exactly have room or place to let the action on!! ha, still think they are cool.
 
Wow, i must have to command on this site. Man, it is so great. you can just search for many q&a here. wow~ feels great to be part of it.
 
bruddah?? What is a bruddah :confused: ha, i kind get a feeling that in the future i will ask question about samurai katanah, european heavy swords.....hahaha.

talking about samurai katana...except traditional antique, is there any new maker that is as good? Stories from ancient books, swords slice bones like butter. with today's technology, great steel, tough steel, i think they are sharp, but somehow i feel those ancient swords are sharper. Does anyone agree with me?? Or we just don't use our S30V's to chop people anymore. Or people back then has super powerful forearm power.....confused :confused: as always........

how does people back then able to produce great blades with so few techno support......i really can't figure it out. just like i never figure out how people build prymid. Damn.... :confused: they must be alians, Alian they are.
 
Gil Hibben knives are not considered "user" knives. While the vast majority of them are pretty in a display case, and have a good "Holy Crap" factor; they are made out of steels that don't retain an edge well, and aren't specifically designed for every day use. Carrying Hibben blades for every day use will scare the crap out of sheeple - and his more extreme designed fixed blades could give you unwanted attention from law enforcement.

They aren't exactly popular knives on this BBS as the interest is more on custom knives and knives that are good "users". Knives that are reliably made and that you can depend your life on, and that don't require sharpening immediately after opening a cardboard box.

In most places, double-edge knives are illegal and that is what the vast majority of throwers are. That rules them out for every-day carry.

Throwing knives are practical for 1 purpose only - throwing. They have pointy ends but aren't designed for any other type of cutting. If you are interested in learning to throw, you may want to consider purchasing inexpensive throwers and a good butt to throw them at (like a cheap foam archery target).

I'd recommend lurking around here for a while and see what makes a knife "good"!
 
talking about samurai katana...except traditional antique, is there any new maker that is as good? Stories from ancient books, swords slice bones like butter. with today's technology, great steel, tough steel, i think they are sharp, but somehow i feel those ancient swords are sharper. Does anyone agree with me?? Or we just don't use our S30V's to chop people anymore. Or people back then has super powerful forearm power.....confused as always........

how does people back then able to produce great blades with so few techno support......
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Basic techniques for working good high carbon steel and keeping the edge sharp and learning how to wield the finished blade haven't changed much in thousands of years.

Technology allows some material refinements and large scale production, but good bladesmiths have been found in many earlier cultures. The industrial revolution is recent.

As far as the actual performance of older blades, there are always exaggerations in the telling.
 
wuyeah said:
talking about samurai katana...except traditional antique, is there any new maker that is as good? Stories from ancient books, swords slice bones like butter. with today's technology, great steel, tough steel, i think they are sharp, but somehow i feel those ancient swords are sharper. Does anyone agree with me??
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Nope, can't say I agree. There are communities devoted to maintaining and improving sword construction techniques, and I have to say they do remarkably well. What the ancient Japanese smiths did extremely well was turn junky raw materials into a steel of usable quality. Sharpness, balance, all that is done as well today as it was then. What we don't have anymore is a community of sword users that can go back to the smith and say "Yeah, your sword is very nice, but the last dude I slashed gave me some trouble when I cut through his shoulder blade... Can you do something about that?"

Mr. Benyamin commented on exaggerations present in the retelling of old stories... I'm going to go one step further and say that the majority sword performance legends are crap. And the Japanese have quite their fair share of these legends, as do the Europeans.
 
Welcome to Bladeforums! We have a Knife Throwing forum here, and a Sword Discussion forum, too.... :cool:
 
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