RyanSword customized 9260 tachi review 

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I'll have another one early next year. Taking the next two weeks off from editing, but everything was filmed, transferred, and ready to start in 2024.

Thanks! It is one of the more affordable tachi options out there.

Thank you!

I still watch from time to time but money has been tied up elsewhere lately. I've heard mixed things about Skyjiro. Motohara seems very nice, the price on some of them is staggering though.

About 6 weeks total, shipping included. It was a 3 swords order but also during pandemic (2021), Christmas, and New Year.

Thanks! Some tachi have a straighter tsuka. Majority of modern repros do. I did swap for katana tsuba / fuchi / kashira but I also have an alternate set that has a tsuba with tachi style shape. Wanted something different since most places doing tachi don't even offer different fittings except their standard generic set.

@@SamuraiJames yeah,not a lot of options on the fittings , tachi and gunto I’ve noticed are usually the same and not very different. Yours looks cool that way⚔️

You know how it goes, you never get just one sword, why have them nearly identical hahaha

I haven't heard of them or had any experience with them

you did great on the cutting as well for the extra curve it has that was awesome

Thank you! It was interesting. Not as much difference as I thought it would be, though I first started cutting tatami back around 2010 or 2011 with a variety of things (european swords, european polearm, japanese swords, japanese polearm).

Oh my. Ten pun points to Hufflepuff, sir. Bravo.

It is about 1 1/8" (2.8 cm). Common sori on repro katana is about 2 centimeters.

Yes they are. I have a nodachi by them (review video pending) and am happy with it. Their naginata is disappointing, but the swords have been good. They had some quality issues in the past but seem to have improved their quality control dramatically.

Hi Molotov, I do not. I do have a wakizashi which is similar size, but does not have tachi fittings like that. Not many places that offer kodachi reproductions. I would like to get one sometime.

@@SamuraiJames I see. Yep, kinda rare thing.

They may have started that way (I don't know) but they're a fairly big company now as far as sword companies go

@SamuraiJames hey you're a pretty cool dude. You actually replied to my comment. I own quite a few swords myself. Got a couple from Swords of Northshire and a genuine nihonto from RVA Katana. Then I've got a few anime swords from mini katana just for fun.

Replies are sporadic sometimes since I'm married with kids, but I try! I have one from Swords of Northshire, who I have heard actually buys from RyanSword, Hanbon Forge, and a few others, then marks them up and sells them. RVA Katana is good and I have a couple of their swords too. No experience with Mini Katana but anime swords seems like their specialty. I've got the Onimusha sword and Devil May Cry sword from the video games, but nothing anime specific (although I've got plans for a reverse blade like Rurouni Kenshin some day).

@SamuraiJames Funny you should mention the Rurouni Kenshin sword because that just so happens to be one of the ones I got from Mini Katana. It is pretty cool and a decent cutter, considering it's "unorthodox" design.

I wanted something that wasn't the common generic tachi fittings that almost nobody lets you change. As for the ashi, lots of repros like this. Doesn't seem to be the case on historical tachi most of the time. Maybe next one I'll ask them to put it closer to the koiguchi. Don't have any difficulty drawing it like this, so I'm a bit curious what impact it would have, particularly at this length (o-katana size).

Ashi??...down the saya? What are you talking about? Perhaps you should learn your terminology before criticizing people stuff. I going to assume you meant to say sori and not ashi. Ashi is one of many characteristics in the structure of the hamon. That said, there are plenty of example of tachi nihonto with graceful torizori. There are even many examples of O-dachi with long even curvatures, and between the two, o-dachi were far more likely to be koshizori, or curvature toward the nakago.

​@@crli4353 Idk what to tell you, man. It's called ashi. nbthk-ab2.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nbthk-koshirae-2-2.jpg See the ichi no ashi and ni no ashi. Those are the ashi. You should probably take your own advice.

@@crli4353 Ashi are the hangers on the saya.

Ashi is also the name for the hangers on tachi