My New Zakasushi!

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I just got in my new Zombie Tools Zakasushi i love this blade!

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Nice get man, iv never handled one of there swords but iv heard great things.
 
got a Sharkalope on my short list.... I love all my ZT stuff.... I know some folks poopoo them as flakes that put out less than historically accurate blades.... but cheezewhiz...whens the last time you squared off on a battle field in against an opponent in armor?.....

I dig it, great guys making a great product in the good old USofA and having the time of their lives doing it..... count me in!
 
Hawgsnawt said:
got a Sharkalope on my short list.... I love all my ZT stuff.... I know some folks poopoo them as flakes that put out less than historically accurate blades.... but cheezewhiz...whens the last time you squared off on a battle field in against an opponent in armor?.....

I dig it, great guys making a great product in the good old USofA and having the time of their lives doing it..... count me in!
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exactly these are modern swords with a flare all their own, i love them, for a fully functioning sword under 1k to me is not bad at all
 
Total Length: 30.5 in (.77m)
Blade Length: 22 in (.56m)
Handle Length: 8.5 in (.22m)
Steel Width: 0.204 in (5.2mm)
Steel Type: 5160
Weight: 2lbs 5oz (1.05kg
 
MichaelMyers said:
Funky name though.
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Zeke and Zak are both common slang terms for Zombie.... like Charles and Charlie were for North Viet Cong soldiers... in Nam

And of course wakizashi is the name of the sword this blade was styled after....

SO....

Zakasushi is a clever play off using a smaller samurai styled blade to cut a Zak into Sushi.....

/shrug
 
Congrats! Looks great. I never looked into Zombietools until this week- the xiophis (sp?) looks tempting.
 
thanks, yes they are becoming a great maker, constantly updating their designs and coming out with cool stuff, it wont be my last purchase from them
 
Admirably, this is actually a modern take on a very traditional western European sword pattern of the 17th and 18h centuries. In France, England, Germany, Italy, and North America the "hunting sword" took on the form of a something between a short curved saber and a long knife with a fawn-footed pommel. Grips varied in material from horn to bone to ivory to wood to wire wrap. Hilts could be integral, forged crossbars or disks, stirrups, chained, or even completely absent. The blades varied from ten to twenty-five inches usually, as they were meant for hunters, hunt masters, or dismounted ghillies to dispatch game cornered, wounded, or held at bay by spears or hounds. Usually mounted, officers in the Continental Army were meant to carry smallswords or full sabers, but many took to carrying hunting swords befiting their rank while still being less cumbersome (and in the longer examples, not less deadly than a smallsword). German jäger officers took to them under Frederick the Great, too. Neumann's Swords and Blades of The American Revolution has dozens of these.

Here is an American swordsmith's copy of a sword Gen. Washington carried.

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Zieg
 
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The Zieg said:
Admirably, this is actually a modern take on a very traditional western European sword pattern of the 17th and 18h centuries. In France, England, Germany, Italy, and North America the "hunting sword" took on the form of a something between a short curved saber and a long knife with a fawn-footed pommel. Grips varied in material from horn to bone to ivory to wood to wire wrap. Hilts could be integral, forged crossbars or disks, stirrups, chained, or even completely absent. The blades varied from ten to twenty-five inches usually, as they were meant for hunters, hunt masters, or dismounted ghillies to dispatch game cornered, wounded, or held at bay by spears or hounds. Usually mounted, officers in the Continental Army were meant to carry smallswords or full sabers, but many took to carrying hunting swords befiting their rank while still being less cumbersome (and in the longer examples, not less deadly than a smallsword). German jäger officers took to them under Frederick the Great, too. Neumann's Swords and Blades of The American Revolution has dozens of these.

Here is an American swordsmith's copy of a sword Gen. Washington carried.

washingtonsword%2012082.jpg


Zieg
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it looks similar but i am not sure if it is that design or from a wakasashi with an american twist
 
It certainly has the aroma of a wakizashi at the tip. Hmm, how about "Pacific Coast Undead-American Dispatch Device"?

Regardless, it's gonna be a quick killer of whatever you put it to. Now go practice your cuts and parries from Hutton and Angelo!

Zieg
 
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