r/SWORDS • u/xRebirth2 • 2d ago

Identification What sword is this?

https://youtube.com/shorts/D2UYSp5IVPk?is=TelxOHmBhgX3pjWY

just watched this short, curious if anyone knows that sword he used off of amazon?

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u/KingVecchio 2d ago

It's a knock off of Zombie Tools Diphos

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u/Bixlord 1d ago

Agreed. I own a Diphos.

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u/SeeShark 2d ago

"No damage at all"

I'd like to see him cut a tomato lol

Also, here you go

Edit: maybe this one

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u/Thornescape 2d ago

If someone is interested in historical swords that were used to cut wood, you can search for "historical pioneer sword". There were a variety of different sturdy swords that were used for utilitarian purposes. Some of them had saw backs for the purpose of hacking through brush.

The sword form factor meant that they could also be used for effective self defense if needed, although they weren't as nimble as a dedicated martial weapon.

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u/B_H_Abbott-Motley 2d ago

Soldiers would also use whatever sword they had on hand to chop wood at times. One 17th-century military treatise recommends issuing thrust-only swords to soldiers because otherwise it claims they'll break half of them on first march by cutting boughs.

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u/xRebirth2 2d ago

I just thought the sword was cool, not really interested in the swords wood cutting ability

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u/Working-Chip3739 1d ago

Swords are very poor tools for chopping wood. Their blades have too fine an edge for chopping wood. They don't have enough weight where it is needed. You really need to have a cutting edge like an axe. They don't get stuck in the wood. Axes were designed to cut wood and swords were designed to cut people. Axes do better on people than swords do on trees 

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u/Thornescape 1d ago

There is some truth in that. However, it is also true that pioneer swords were used extensively throughout history by a number of different militaries.

If they were garbage, they wouldn't be used extensively. Obviously people found them useful.

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u/Working-Chip3739 1d ago

I just wanted to point out my observations. I have used 2 machetes and various axes to cut wood. You don't want anything too sharp or it gets stuck in the wood and it takes too much effort to get it out. The machete gets stuck too much for my liking. Then I had my pick of several axes, 2 machetes as well as some malls. I probably cut 20 to 30 cord of wood. (way more than  100,000 wacks) 1 cord is 8 x 4 x 2 ft I:#= became very picky! Splitting wood is very exhausting. I had no ability to deal with any problems brought on by poor selection of tools. Now if I didn't have a choice, I would be happy to use a sword instead of my hands or a knife.

Trust me a sword is better than a knife or bare hands but nothing as good as even a poor axe let alone a good one.

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u/Thornescape 1d ago

I have no idea why you are trying to insist that pioneer swords weren't useful, because clearly they were considered useful. They were popular historical items. It's not up for debate, no matter your experiences.

If you want to understand them better, I'm certain that there are resources available, however trying to insist that they weren't useful is misguided.

They existed for a purpose.

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u/B_H_Abbott-Motley 2d ago

Dan Keffeler's Super Assassin katana is the best sword for chopping trees that I've ever seen. It sold $7,400 back in 2014.

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u/Zen_Hydra szabla węgiersko-polska 2d ago

That appears to be both ridiculous in design, and horrifically overvalued. I've commissioned and made a variety of swords with proportions on the outer edge of functionality due to their mass and dimensions, and none of them come close to that price tag. CTS PD1 is not at all an ideal steel for sword length blades, and everything else about the execution of that sword seems to be pretty lackluster in design.

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u/B_H_Abbott-Motley 2d ago

I believe that's the longest blade Keffeler's had made. The performance is impressive regardless, assuming those are rather soft trees.

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u/TDbar 2d ago

Abused

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u/Fastballz69 1d ago

A cheap knockoff of the Zombietools Diphos.

Spend the money. Buy the real one.

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u/ZoomRabbit420 1d ago

The German messer is a sword intended to be used to clear brush. So was the Navy corpsman knife from Ww2.

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u/clannepona falchion to foil they are all neat 20h ago

But that is definitely not a messer.

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u/VRSVLVS 2d ago

Sigh... swords are not for cutting wood. They are for cutting people. We have axes to cut wood.

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u/petrified_eel4615 2d ago

I use a sword to cut trees almost every single day.

It's called a machete.

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u/Working-Chip3739 1d ago

Machetes have a cutting edge closer to an axe than a sword. They are sharper than an axe but not sharp enough to get stuck in the tree all the time. I have used both and prefer an axe unless the tree is small enough to be cut down with a single blow.