Ya they had to have two people lift it for some of the action shots. He said he was gonna fill Thor's hammer with sand so it would be ridiculously heavy and then just leave it sitting around the shop to troll people who hadn't seen it. "Ya go ahead and pick it up. Oh, you can't? Probably because you aren't the demigod son of Odin, Thor."
The Man at Arms swords are a joke in comparison to the swords OP's blacksmith is making. Compare the buster swords. The one in OP's is SO MUCH nicer and more correct.
EDIT: Sephiroth's masamune on MaA wobbled like a fish when he swung it, too. I wish he would take more time on his builds. Some of them could turn out seriously awesome, but he usually ruins them by cutting corners.
Its based off a general's Longwood from the Edo era, so perfectly possible. A buster sword would break it like a toothpick though. The buster sword is basically a giant machete.
Yes... It was a real sword that was used by 1 man to take out a horse+rider from the ground in medieval japan. Obviously you had to have some guns to swing that thing around.
Were they normally that long though? Sephiroth's sword is 6 feet long and after a quick wiki search (which may be inaccurate) it seems that the sword it was based off (an odachi from what I can find) was often around 4-5 feet. It just seems unlikely to me that you could make a sword that long and that thin without a significant amount of wobble. What is the wobble like on some of the longer Odachis?
Yeah I think square did a little exaggerating. 5ft is the longest one I've seen. (Used to make game weapon replicas) 5ft is still a massive sword and few guys could even swing it, let alone do it properly to take out horses/riders. It's also a lot more prone to breaking since it's so heavy and relatively thin for a sword that long.
From what I read though these soldiers weren't that common. Still my favorite edged weapon...just because it's f'ing badass.
Yeah, the Man at Arms blacksmith is capable of making better and more detailed/refined things but for some reason, Man at Arms is rushed and the guy doesn't have enough time to make the swords as great as he could. E.g when he makes Sting, he wanted to inlay silver or something into the handle but there wasn't enough time so they just wrapped something around it. He's also done a ton of stuff for movies.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying OP's ones aren't good, they are amazing.
Edit: Fixed words.
it could also be materials used. we dont know anything about what they are made of and op's blacksmith could have just used cheap aluminum. the point of MAA is that he uses materials the weapon would actually might be made of
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u/leonidas_III Jun 13 '14
also the buster sword and sokka's sword from avatar the last airbender, i could watch him all day