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girls with katanas please?
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:)
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KATANAS AND SAMURAI SUX

NIGHTS WERE BETTA

(now for a knight vs samurai thread)
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katana sux nights r beta
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SSEEEEIBAA with a curved blade, not exactly a katana. Actually, few of the pictures in this thread will be.
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Katanas are curved to a slight degree due to the how the metal cools. The edge made of martensite cools slower than the opposite side made of bainite or austenite, thus bending it in the process.
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Really? And what's all this martensite, bainite and austenite stuff? And where'd you learn about this?

I'm curious.
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Special guest speaker in a materials class. Martensite is also one of the harder metals that can be achieved through forging. Though sharper and can cut through bamboo like paper, it is also more brittle. Thus, hitting katanas against each other would probably result in breaking or weakening both of them severely. Logically enough, this aspect of swordcraft has affected how japanese swordplay has come about. Solely carrying a katana seems almost useless without some sort of knowledge of hand to hand combat.
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Japan's steel was pretty shitty, which is why they had to fold it over and over again.
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Que?
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that is a man
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Isn't carrying just about ANY weapon useless without knowing just a bit about how to use it?
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Maybe, but if you can't properly use, say, a billy club, you're doin it wrong.
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._. I believe that the OP specified that it was to be katanas in this thread...
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One arm one eye badass!
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Weeaboo