RyanSword customized 9260 tachi review

Review of my RyanSword tachi. Standard customization options as well as a 9260 blade (custom) with midare hamon, and a black saya instead of the standard red and black style. Unboxing, initial impressions, and cutting!
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[@theunknown8203]

Thanks for the review, Samurai James! I'm looking forward to your future videos.

[@SamuraiJames]

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.

[@Xydrous101]

Thanks for the review that's a realy cool tachi, hope can afford it someday

[@SamuraiJames]

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

[@jakewolf079]

Excellent review!

[@SamuraiJames]

Thank you!

[@tengu190]

You need to check out the 1336 & 1414 they offer. Also a Skyjiro one day.

[@SamuraiJames]

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.

[@TONEDEAFSOUND]

love the sori

[@TONEDEAFSOUND]

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

[@SamuraiJames]

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).

[@natetheknight]

Rye-in-sword? Made for Sam-u-rye?

[@SamuraiJames]

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

[@connorgrabski3861]

How long did it take from placing order to delivery?

[@SamuraiJames]

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

[@samuraibyrd]

Are those katana fittings,and straight tsuka? So,its a deep sori katana with a tachi saya? Pretty cool whatever it is,lol🤪

[@SamuraiJames]

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.

[@samuraibyrd]

@@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⚔️

[@SamuraiJames]

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

[@MrGamer_jinjit_96]

Whats the sori curvature ?

[@SamuraiJames]

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

[@ky1ejennings]

is ryanswords legit then? i’m thinking of getting a 53 inch japanese odachi

[@SamuraiJames]

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.

[@TheMolotov2k]

Hi, Samurai James! Thank you for your labour, very interesting reviews you show! Let me ask if you have any short tachi like this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachi

[@SamuraiJames]

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.

[@TheMolotov2k]

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

[@mr.peanutbutter1796]

Ryansword sounds like its a company ran by a dude in is garage lol.

[@TopLob]

Customized to look fake? Why do so many put the ashi so far down the saya. It's not supposed to be in the middle. Every part of this just screams cheap trash.

[@SamuraiJames]

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).

[@crli4353]

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.

[@TopLob]

​@@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.

[@TopLob]

@@crli4353 Ashi are the hangers on the saya.

[@SamuraiJames]

Ashi is also the name for the hangers on tachi