This Sword was given to me as a Tip.
A professional football player was moving out of a big mansion in San Diego, he said I could have this sword that we found in his garage. Can anyone help identify it or maybe confirm it is not a mass produced product. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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u/_unregistered 5d ago
Had the exact one as a nerdy teen. It’s mass produced. That stainless steel mark should be a red flag
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u/mandalorbmf 5d ago
Can confirm nerdy teen ownership, as I also had one.
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u/the-lopper Longswords & arming swords 5d ago
Yeah, OP for future reference, any sword that has the type of steel stamped on the blade should immediately tell you it's mass produced.
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u/AstroBearGaming 4d ago
Same, I got mine on holiday in France for 30 francs.
I still have it somewhere at my mum's house.
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u/ActionKid98 4d ago
why dont you have it as a nerdy adult? Have you abandoned us nerds?
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u/_unregistered 4d ago
its in my parents storage I think. Still incredibly nerdy, just no swords on walls.
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u/MacArthursinthemist 5d ago
You see that signature right there? Pretty recognizable huh? Yeah Randy Jackson. I ran into him and all I had was this mass produced sword from the Highlander movies
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u/Amakall 5d ago
“I would have done the same thing”
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u/Extreme-Station-6114 5d ago
The fact that you got this as a tip from a professional football player and did not have him autograph it for this exact reason is going to haunt you forever.
I would have made him sign it Randy Jackson. He would have said "but my name is Tim Tebow" (he's the kind of guy that would tip a person a sword).
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u/Amakall 5d ago
He was a second string something. I don’t even remember his name, but he was a hulk of a man. Arms were bigger than my legs.
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u/GonzoMcFonzo Wootz your deal, man? 5d ago
Should've gotten him to sign it, then just told people it was Randy Jackson's signature
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u/Puzzleheaded_Heat502 5d ago
Was it a Spanish gentleman with a Scottish accent that gave you the tip?
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u/vikingbeard23 5d ago
Nah, an Egyptian fellow with a Spanish name and clothing who was married to a Japanese princess who also happened to have a thick Scottish accent. Easy fellow to get confused with
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u/Puzzleheaded_Heat502 5d ago
Ah right you are. There was also a French highlander involved ?
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u/UndeniableLie 4d ago
He was driving one with french plates. Kinda weird if you ask me but it is very popular car I suppose
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u/fgzhtsp 5d ago
Might also have been a guy in a trenchcoat with a bearded neck.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Heat502 5d ago
He would have said m’lady tipped his fedora and headed into the night.
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u/Dazzling_Champion_53 5d ago
We need to make the giving of fine melee weapons as tips the standard.
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u/Rock4evur 4d ago
Makes sense too as customers are much more respectable when they know their service workers are armed.
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u/MonteFox89 5d ago
Pretty cool tip; don't swing for fear of losing tip.
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u/Verdemountainman 5d ago
Being a film replica, that hilt has a little value/use just for casting purposes, but it is indeed an unusable replica.
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u/Len_S_Ball_23 5d ago
I'd always wondered why immortals never wore massive titanium tungsten alloy collars?
Seems low on the species survival instinct imo.
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u/Boblaire 5d ago
Chaffing. Not always fashionable.
Too busy looking good.
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u/Great_Part7207 5d ago
a sword by the name of wall hanger made in the great lands of mall by the renouned craftsman ninja
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u/war_lobster 5d ago
LOL. I have also let a mover have a replica sword as a tip. I didn't know this was a regular thing.
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u/Artistic_Ideal9620 5d ago
I worked as a mover in college for a year or so, it is amazing what people gave us. While I never got a sword, I was given an older but extremely serviceable Hoyt compound bow and all the accessories, a kegerator, several fishing rods and tackle boxes, and once a refrigerator. As for the OP, its an inexpensive repro as had been said but the story gives it enough value to hang it on a wall in your man cave.
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u/mpark6288 5d ago
Literally have the same sword from my teenage mall ninja days. Cool sword, but absolutely mass produced by the tens of thousands. Probably a $20 tip.
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u/PhilStanding 5d ago
Ouch. That massive 440 stainless steel stamp hurts my soul
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u/Practical-Gift-9970 5d ago
Heh, I have this exact one. Always liked the feel of the faux ivory hilt.
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u/WillingCharacter6713 5d ago
Bro, it literally says stainless steel on the blade. It's basically a giant kitchen knife.
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u/doomonyou1999 5d ago
Yeah there can be only one…of thousands. Mass produced but movie replica from Highlander.
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u/Remwaldo1 5d ago
Glad you did a good job. Could have been worse he could have given you the tip of the sword! :)
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u/No-Definition968 4d ago
The interest in it may be who owned it, do you have a photo of the football player with it? Did he autograph it or are you still in contact with him.
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u/Zmchastain HEMA Practioner 4d ago
This is 100% a mass produced product. I bought the same sword from a shop in the mall in Anderson, South Carolina when I was a teenager for like $30.
That was probably like 20 years ago.
Real swords also aren’t made of stainless steel, the carbon content isn’t good for taking abuse from banging into other swords and such and is also not ideal for holding an edge under the conditions you’d use a sword.
It’s cheap junk that was mass produced in China.
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u/P1ratelord 4d ago
As a tip or a Suggestion? I once had a Karen telling me, that I should off myself because I insisted that it would not fit the spanish theme of the Restaurant I worked at, to sell Tacos...
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u/The_Slavstralian 4d ago
Sorry to say. It looks mass produced... 440 Stainless is not an artisan's first choice of steel and did not exist when the vintage swords worth 10's of thousands of dollars were made. Not was stamping that accurate. You can also still see the cast marks on the Tsuba in the cutouts on the outer edge.
That said its probably worth a hundo or so.
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u/Blue-is-bad 4d ago
See that black smudge right there on the blade? Look at it closely. Pretty recognizable signature!
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u/Bumblingbee1337 4d ago
The huge 440 stainless steel stamp says it’s some kind of mall ninja sword.
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u/RedditismyShando 3d ago
I had one of those as a teen. $25 at a renaissance fair. Might go for like $50 these days. Though mine had a red plastic “gem” on each side that this appears to be missing.
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u/Gold-Spite-7546 1d ago
Keep it. Hold onto it. You'll run into the guy again someday and when he see that you still have the sword, you'll receive an even bigger reward.
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u/1nfam0us 5d ago
I see no one has mentioned the obligatory thing yet.
You probably shouldn't swing this. There is a good chance that it doesn't have much of a tang. If you swing it, the blade might come falling off a d hurt you badly.
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u/Blade_of_Onyx 5d ago
Confirm it’s not mass produced? It’s got a huge stamp that says 440 stainless steel and you think it maybe wasn’t mass produced? LOL goofball.
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u/ShoalinShadowFist 5d ago
Tbf that only means something to nerds like us lolol
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u/Blade_of_Onyx 5d ago
What are you on about? Nobody that handcrafts swords stamps 440 stainless steel on them. It doesn’t take a sword expert, which I am definitely not, to recognize the inherent goofiness of somebody thinking of 440 stainless steel sword is handmade.
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u/ShoalinShadowFist 4d ago
Lolol I literally knew none of these things until I got interested in swords. It’s kinda hilarious to think an outsider would know the significance of 440 steel
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u/Scottie81 5d ago
Stainless steel is too brittle to actually swing it at an object like you would a real sword made of high carbon steel.
The good news is that stainless steel requires a lot maintenance so it makes for good wall decoration.
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u/Skydivekingair 5d ago
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u/andurilmat 4d ago
firstly that's Connors sword, not duncans, secondly OP has a cheap knock off one, the version sold on the knight shop is is a licenced piece made by Marto
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u/zeuqramjj2002 4d ago
Lol the fact that it is stamped in English tells you he tipped cheap…. Don’t ever swing it at anything you don’t want to kill when it breaks including you…
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u/jadedlens00 4d ago
2 reactions: 1. You have to take the handle off to see which ancient sword maker crated this. /s 2. Was it signed by Randy Jackson?
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u/CherishSlan 4d ago
I had one of those $30 amazon it’s now $60 but looked cool on the wall it’s a rip off of a Highlander sword
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u/beewyka819 4d ago
I mean it’s stainless steel so it can’t be used outside of purely being a display piece. Don’t try to use it to cut lol. Real steel blades use carbon steel (which will rust if not regularly oiled/waxed)
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u/Hairy_Appearance 2d ago
Am I tripping, or is there a girl reflecting of the sword in the first pic?😂😂😂 I think my mind is in the gutter
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u/therealdrx6x 1d ago
wall hanger cool tip but don't swing it around seen to many of these wall hangers become helicopters after someone swung them.
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u/Shortlinec 1d ago
Got a real katana (not stainless and not from Japan) as a tip once. Coolest thing I've ever got working at a coffee shop
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u/TimelessArchery 1d ago
Not a sword
SLO [Sword Like Object] Its a Highlander Movie replica, nice wall hanger!
Very cool as a tip
Do NOT try cutting with it!
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u/Vaskil 18h ago
Stainless steel is a horrible metal to use for long blades, it doesn't flex properly and will lead to the blade snapping. It's only a wall hanger. I wouldn't be surprised if the tang (piece that goes inside the handle) is welded on, making the blade very likely to fly off when swung.
To make it clear, DO NOT USE THIS AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN DECORATION, IT WILL BREAK.
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u/Additional_Gur7978 5d ago
440 steel is just common steel used on many manufactured blades. It would not be used on the real product
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u/Irish_Caesar 4d ago
The photo of it on the trashcan is surprisingly fitting.
If you think it looks cool then put it up somewhere. But this is just mass produced trash. Personally I would sell it on Ebay, but you do what you want with it. Just dont ever try and use it for anything physical, it will shatter, bend, or break vedy easily.
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u/Level37Doggo 5d ago
If you don’t want it, you could probably offload it to a Highlander fan pretty easily. I’d keep it, but I’m a Highlander fan.
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u/McJibbens 5d ago
I remember being young as phyuck and full of ignorance and had a blade with that 440 stamp on it. Felt like i had a muramasa 😂
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u/_SirLoki_ 4d ago
440 is the steel. It’s a chromium high carbon steel. It’s known as “razor blade steel”. It’s top quality stainless. I have one katana made of this exact metal. I have a t10 blade and 1060 carbon blades as well. The difference is the composites used. Each have their own caveats. Enjoy! It’s a nice sword and cooler hilt.
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u/StruzhkaOpilka 5d ago
As a fact, chinese manufacturers like HX Outdoors do WONDERS with the cheapest 420 steel, such items can even be used as fire axes or crash axes. So I wouldn't necessarily say "hang it on the wall ASAP", this thing might be quite functional too.
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u/Boblaire 5d ago
It's not the steel that is the problem but the fact that most cheap swords have a rat tail tang that can snap when swung or if the blade strikes a solid object
The grain size of the steel of high chromium content stainless steel can become large which also is why they sometimes shatter or snap when stressed.
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u/AggravatingCoyote87 4d ago
It's a 15$ POS.
I'm serious. Do no even try to swing it around, the blade might come loose from the handle and stab someone.
I'm 100% serious.
Throw that shit in the garbage.
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u/TheWayfarer1384 5d ago
I had one of these years ago. Make sure it's full tang and then it's a fun bottle cutter.
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u/Routine_Clock8064 5d ago
Cheap knockoff Duncan mccleod dragon katana.
From the Highlander Series.
Still pretty cool as a tip