damn you blademaster! you beat me to the punch 😛
anyways heres something that looks pretty damn close to oren's
http://www.weaponmasters.com/?ID=WEAPONS&SORT=PRICE_UP&ITEM=WM-2220
empireswords hattori hanzo swords
Hi,
I just bought bills demon hanzo from empireswords.com very nice quality indeed and it came with a nice stand. they are selling autographed versions of the sword as well actually signed by david carradine. im saving up for an autographed 3 pc set. definitely 2 thumbs up.
chek them out www empire swords dot com
look under movie replicas there is a cool kill bill game there as well.
Well blademaster,didn't notice anything about your demon sword? I'm sorry to tell you this...but it isn't the same as BILL.
First of all,look at the demon sign: Bill's one is gray (silver) but yours is yellow (crappy).
Second,check out the handling...yours is gold,while bill's is black or gray (silver)...
SO It isn't a replica,well it looks a lot like Bills...BUT i'm gonna wait untill someone comes with the real deal,if i have to i'll go ask David Carradine for his🙂
This one from Empireswords...look at the demon head and scabbard and handling.. It LOOKS FAKE and not Bill' sword at all!!!
I even froze my dvd where you can see a close up of Bill's Hanzo sword in the hacienda...guess what,it's completely different. THERE ARe MORE PICS online..so check it out. So what's different,let me repeat :Bill's demonhead is SILVER!!! Also,the handling the one you got is from Beatrix's SWORD...NOT Bill's. So they actually made a BIG MISTAKE....they shouldn't use fake gold but SILVER.
I'm just alerting all kill bill fans,because this thread has over 3000 views!!!!!
Facts. Movie replica's are fairly simple to come by, they pose those out as just another way to make cash out of a movie. That's the same for the swords. The manufacturing of those swords are in strict boundaries, they are fragile, blunt and will break at the first strike.
If you want a real medieval sword, go to Germany, where expert blacksmith craft them out of train-tracks and truck blade-shockbreakers. Those things cut though a brick like butter.
Real Japanese swords are a whole different league. They can't be exported from Japan legally, as the government sees them as native culture items. Along that, they are considered illegal weapons by most countries and transporters.
To get one one those requires a really fat wallet, for if you can bribe it out of Japan, a sword like that still has the same price as a new series Mercedes. But if you want to go for a tin-can replica, pass a mail to New Line and the postman rings 2 days later.
To the Lord of the Rings sword guy that stated you could use them for battle or dueling...try hitting two of those swords together at full speed. One of two things will happen...1) One of both will utterly shatter, or 2) You will get a severe gouge in both blades, ruining them.
Anyway...I started looking around on the net for a replica Hanzo sword. I saw the Empireswords.com ones...and they look pretty pathetic in my opinion. I guess they are good for the price, but not much more.
i agree 100% with you on that one. LoTR swords (or any replica sword for that matter) should be displayed or used in a desperate situation(as in last resort) i hear way too many stories of idiots who treat amazing works of art such as those like trash. so let me say once more. THEY ARE WORKS OF ART NOT WEAPONS!
as for the hanzo sword it looked pretty accurate to me. but i never knew about the stainless steel stamp😖 ouch thats gonna hurt the price of the thing! thanks for telling me!🙂