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| Black Cord Wrapped Boken Daito Wood Practice Sword | 
 enlarge | Brand: General Edge
Category: Sports
List Price: $25.00
Buy New: $8.99
You Save: $16.01 (64%)
New (2) from $8.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1250
Media: Misc.
Legal Disclaimer: You must be of at least 18 years of age to purchase this product. It is the buyers responsibility to check your local laws before buying.
ASIN: B000EVPJXI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Terrific Practice Sword 3514
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| Features:
| • | True Grip Design resembles real Sword | | • | Low Price | | • | Ideal for Practice | | • | Black Finish | | • | Classic Black Boken made better! |
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Product Description
Unlike most poorly manufactured and shoddy wooden practice katanas, this sword brings to both stability and practicality. With a comfortable cord wrapped handle and sturdy construction, this practice sword will last through many rigorous training sessions. Guard and no longer includes oversized ruuber band brace, now ships with normal style rubber band brace, not pictured. If you are going to practice, why not use a practice sword that feels and grips like a real sword? Measuring: 39" Overall, 30" Blade Portion Length.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Good, but the natural wood one is better... July 17, 2006
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
The cord-wrapped handle is a great idea, offering more of a real sword-like look as well as a firmer grip. My hands tend to get sweaty and slip around a bit with long practice, particularly with the sealed lacquered finish on most bokken. This wrap really helps (though it needed a touch of glue to get it to stay in place). The two-piece guard design is a nice enhancement too. Though you really don't need the guard at all for many applications it is nice looking and appears stronger than the original.
It's still a fairly cheap piece of wood, compared to an ironwood version, but at this price (it was $9.99 when I bought it) you really can't go wrong. A nice enhancement over the basic bokken. I do, however, prefer the natural wood version to this one as it looks pretty bad once you start using it and the color scrapes off. Nevertheless, if you want an inexpensive practice sword this one is recommended...
 it rocks August 31, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
i bought two of them so that i could mess around with one of them. for instance i have a giant wild cactus field up in this lot by my house, so i use it to slice through them so i know its realy sturdy, because the cactus has broken a pvc pipe before. so my point is buy it!!!!!!!!!!!
Black 40" (10" tsuka or handle) practice katana December 29, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
A great bokken at a good price. I do both Ninjutsu and Toyamma Ryu, a katana martial art new to the U.S. that is a combination of Iaido and kenjutsu with a strong emphasis on iaido(drawing and sheathing of the sword) and on the perfection of the cut. It is heavier than most bokken, which I think is a good thing because its closer to the weight of a real katana, and it builds strength in the forearms while practicing. For Toyamma Ryu I use mostly my carbon steel Iaito(unsharpened katana) but still use it when we do kenjutsu techniques like blocking drills bokken to bokken. It doesn't come with a saya(sheath), but I just made one out of thick black plastic from my water well tubing and heated to mold it into more of an oval instead of being circular. I needed a saya, because it is important for drawing in Iaido techniques. For most bokkens you can use those old plastic black golf club tubes that they sell at Dick's Sporting Goods or wherever you can find them, but you have to ask for them. The handle-wrap is durable and a really nice feature. In Ninjutsu all we use is the bokken because we do body movement to avoid the blade which is obv much safer than a metal sword. I've wacked it pretty hard in practice and by accident a few times and it has held up really well and the handle-wrap hasn't moved at all, so I think it is a really nice practice tool that everyone will love. P.S. If you are using this item for Iaido and you decide to make your own saya the paint is gonna scratch off a little bit from rubbing against the saya so you may want to get the natural wood color, not a big deal either way.
 Quality could be better January 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall, it was pretty good, I was a little disappointed in the quality of this sword. There were several cracks in the finish of the sword. Nothing huge, just minor eyesores.
Awesome sword October 8, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this sword and the one with the burgandy finish, I can't be more pleased. The wrap on the handle is a nice Touch; My Guard doesn't really fit that good, but will stay in place (it just jiggles a little when I swing). Also the fact that they have weight to them helps increase the muscles in your wrist and arms. I have hit them together accidentally and they seem to hold up to the blow. Great price for an even greater sword.
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