@@Wastelandman7000 My best guess would be Padouk, based on the red coloring (the non polished parts, where the metal pommel was glued on, are bright orange, so it's not just a stain). Padouk is actually very dense and hard, but the grain structure is shorter
@@Skallagrim looking forward to see you sparring with RSW but your recovery is the first priority. Yes, failing cuts produce lots of resistance and is no good for injuries. Also glad no one is hurt when the stuff broke.
Did they forget who Skall is and what he does? Were they hoping he’d just review its aesthetics? It’s a cool idea…wonder how well it would do if it had quality components and construction.
But it doesn't even look good tho Like the dragon head looks cheap as fuck, and the blade has this ugly shape that's too thin and has unconsistent width
putting such a decent looking blade on a flimsy stick with hot glue is absolute weapon heresy... i mean, i have recently purchased a bundle from tods workshop that includes; a type 14 arming sword, a dagger and an eating knife ALL with scabbard for 700.. this poleweapon thing is just horrible for its price tag
That was wild. Nowhere near the destructive testing of Forged in Fire or anything, and yet it failed in most ways it could. Thanks for proving yet again you're always honest in your reviews Skall.
To be fair, a lot of failures on Forged in Fire are caused by the wide load old guy testers who have zero technique. Numerous times when blades have snapped it was because they heavily scalloped the cut and the blade actually turned sideways halfway through the target, putting all the stress on the blade in a way even a well-made sword would snap.
honestly, if they sold JUST the metal parts, with a better socket and tang of the blade, and let the customer source the wooden shaft by themselves, it would be fine. So yes, I would love to see you make a new (and better) spear from it.
$600 is also the price of LK Chen's Han Dynasty Sha polearm shipped to North America...which looks better, is way more practical, and is presumably better built.
the design of the spear is actually from the Ming dynasty novel "romance of the three kingdom", which Dynasty warriors is based upon. Essentially the design of the spear is fantasy weapon before Hollywood.
Even then the original version would have likely been a bit less impractical (even if it was more of a trophy/display weapon) as the DW version is even more ramped up and stylised.
This is something that was sent for review? Someone thought; 'let's go drum up some business by showcasing our products to reviewers who are well known to give honest and unbiased reviews.' And they send a $100 slapped together wall hanger that they sell for $600. Did they think because they sent it for free they would get a favourable review?
Who knows what was in their minds. Like did they know what they were doing? Knowing Skal they had to see this coming. Maybe someone in the company is out for revenge and is trying to tank their reputation! If so they did a good job, because I wouldn't buy anything from them after seeing this overpriced junk.
Am I the only one who partially expected the sirens to be police looking in on what some neighbor called in as "two guy flailing about with blades in their back yard" xD.
This might be one of the best video titles I've seen from you in a while: - Clearly marked what type of content it is (weapon test) - something specific that might be interesting (catastrophic failure) - The hint of something more thorough than mere cutty-cutty ("what we can learn from it"). Just commenting because I cought your "why no views"-livestream a while ago and was thinking about why I myself, despite having been subscribed for at least a decade now, have been watching less and less of your videos over the years, and maybe that might be a factor: It feels like your titles and thumbnails rarely tell me more than "oh, Skall is talking about swords again" (and... what else is new?) So when I'm in the mood for a specific type of content, it's kind of hard to tell if any given video of yours fits what I'm looking for. Just my two cents and I'm no UA-cam-ologist but maybe something worth looking into: Do videos with more specific and focussed titles and thumbnails do better than more general ones? IDK
I appreciate the feedback! Not sure it's that, because from what I can tell videos with more specific titles and thumbnails haven't done any better. Lately hardly anything does, seemingly no matter what I try. Or maybe I'm making mistakes that are obvious to others, but that I can't see myself. Who knows.
@@Skallagrim For example, you have a bunch of different types of content: unscripted ramblings and collabs, scripted deep dives, weapons tests, technique videos, reactions, etc., and I like some types more than others. My personal preferences don't really matter, but that's a bunch of different types of content with probably slightly different audiences each, and at times I find it hard to tell what a video is going to be before clicking it. Again, idfk, I got no analytics and I might just be rambling my random shower thoughts, but maybe something like very different thumbnail styles for each type of video or an " |Review" / "| Ramble" / "| HEMA techniques" whatever in the title might help?
@@Skallagrim tbh, it's Shorts content that gets pushed above longform video content rn because UA-cam and Google are directly competting with TikTok for the views of the past 2 generations of youth. So they're shunting their longform content into obscurity while Shorts are what get recommended more often.
Swords of Northshire is reseller that sells stuff for higher prices than normal for profit. You can find this spear, alongside many of their other offerings, elsewhere online for substantially less.
@Skallagrim The lowest I can find is from an eBay seller named Swordkungfu based out of Longquan selling it for $387 USD. Edit: Albeit, it's out of stock at the moment.
@@fredEVOIX Well, I might have misused the term "reseller". I know they source items from the same place as many other businesses either from or in contact with Longquan-based production facilities. Swords of Northshire does have specific customer support employees, unlike most others, where as with other places like RyanSword or Hanbon Forge, you're talking directly to those AT the forges. Someone I once saw online ordered a sword rack from either SoN or Hanbon Forge (I think), and since they had orders from both places simultaneously, got the tracking number from the opposite business. It's really strange!
A pity. Glad you guys were not injured, and let's hope that, maybe, the right people in the production chain will take notice and do something about this. Either fix the problems, or lower the price and advertise it as a "display piece", or something.
An automaker built a car that would sell for about 16k (this was a while ago). The business jocks said they needed a car in the 26k price range, so they jacked up the price to 26k without changing anything in the car build. Just add 10k so it filled a gap in their price structure. I don't trust price by itself as an indicator of quality. Personally, I wouldn't mail order anything for that price. I'd want to hold it in my hands and inspect it thoroughly. The glue would have had me handing it back immediately. It isn't just the glue, but the fact that the glue is obvious and ugly.
Yep, this is true for all industries. Including guns. Just because it costs a lot doesn't mean its worth a lot. "You get what you pay for" is no longer generally true. You have to be watching like a hawk to keep from being what I call "Hype-charged" Because a lot of what you're paying for is brand name and hype.
Mail it to Tod Cutler and make it his problem! "Tod, we're having a contest to see what is the best thing you can make with this" He returns an ingot of steel.
Given the quality of the rest of the built I'd be a bit concerned the mounting collars would split or fragment launching the blade at the cameraman or Skal.
Now I wanna see other weapons form Dynasty Warriors aswell. A reaction video to all the different characters weapons would be something I'd definitely watch. While there are plenty of swords, spears and other polearms in the seires it also does have some rather "unique" weapons.
This is the most charitable, mindful review of something that exploded. Skall sounds like an engineer, maybe these companies can hire you as a contractor for qc and r&d
It should absolutely be possible to make the threaded multi-section haft work. But both coupling members have to be very substantial - the male half should be very girthy and the female part should be meaty. If the female coupling actually looks like a pipe and not just a solid hunk of metal with a giant threaded hole maybe 2/3-3/4 the diameter, then it's probably not thick enough. Also the threads should be pretty deep.
Also, if you can't do thaat... just design the head for thrusting, not swinging cus then any force travels down the pole instead of pushing against the pole. Pikes were alot more fragile than poleaxes and billhooks.
Seems to me that conventional threading isn't a good choice for the application, and that it would be better to look to bayonet mounting mechanisms for inspiration. After all, the purpose of both is to allow for a disassemblable polearm, and they share many design requirements and constraints. Edit: Also, something like a bayonet mount would allow use of a non-circular shaft.
@@absolutelyliberated1357 Still, for that price you would expect it to look and fit better. Edit: After finding out the reseller added a large markup, now it makes sense. Apparently, you can find it for half the price elsewhere.
Actually Zhang Fei is a character from the 14th century historical novel "Romance of the three kingdoms" and a historical character (though his deeds are almost certainly overstated). To be fair, the game dynasty warriors is also based on that novel. But more to the point, the reason for why this spear has the form that it has is because Zhang Feis weapon is described as a "1,8 zhang long serpent spear" in the romance of the three kingdoms. "Zhang" being a traditional chinese measurement. The historical value at the time of the three kingdoms period was about 1 zhang being equal to about 240cm. In other words, this spear being described as having a length of 1,8 zhang should be around 4,3m long. That's 14,1ft for you americans.
Here's the problem with weapons that appear more in historical fictions than in museums or documents, such as the 蛇矛 or "snake spear": The manufactures can only design it from artworks. Not a replica by any means because there's nothing to replicate from.
100% support you altering that spear to make it usable, hopefully the company that sent it will listen and make alterations to improve it for that price point.
I'm not subbed and I don't watch all the videos of you that appear in my timeline, but this was actually a great title/thumbnail and the video really delivered.
I know it is expensive, and time intenstive and requires an annoying amount of space and all that, but god was it fun to see you testing a weapon again. Id personally say its more fun when the weapon breaks, cause there is more to the story than "Its a properly made weapon and because of this it just works"
It would be interesting to see it disassembled so we can see if there are any other horrors awaiting us inside that handle. Quality like this makes me wonder if the blade is even attached to that peg.
That's a shame. The threaded shaft can probably be solved with judicious use of loctite, but there are no remedies for any of the other defects/shortcuts. It's almost like they didn't even design this as a battle ready piece, though I suspect you wouldn't have tested it as such if that was notated anywhere.
I ordered a "Messer / Bastard Sword / Katana Hybrid Straight Blade European Folded Steel Blade Longsword" when it was called that, and the guard/hilt was a total disaster, I made a video and left a review but they removed my pictures. It looks like the actual blades are very well made from SoN, but anything other than katanas are slops assembled with glue.
@7:12 The haft wouldn't have to be round. You could have the metal fitting made to be ovoid on one end and round and threaded on the other. Wouldn't look as nice, who knows if it would hold up as well, but well, this broke after six hits anyway.
Woof! Glad you guys survived that testing without any injuries. Thanks for your contribution to consumer reviews and sharing what you learned about the spear. As a historical note, the type of weapon 蛇矛 (She Mao) is a historical design; it looks like over the course of the Dynasty Warrior series Zhang Fei was given increasingly more outlandish versions of the spear in the artwork. But we do have (rare) surviving examples as well as plenty of depictions of them from from the Ming. Let me know if you'd like me to post some images.
Some of my favorite videos of yours are when you retrofit weapons (especially bad or broken ones) so I would absolutely love to see that blade given a proper dressing. I also find it funny how a single enthusiast can refit weapons into better ones than the actual companies behind the product sometimes.
My guess of the Price: a) Up charging due to Recognisability b) Licensing for the Design, after all it is based on a pretty well known IP and that'll cost
Dynasty Warriors is based off of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a 14th century historical fiction novel by Luo Guanzhong. Its old as dirt. I doubt its still under copyright. The spear is probably just over priced.
With the rust and the way the fittings look, it kinda looks like it's a return product that they tried to repurpose into a review sample, which is a bad idea... Also since there is rust, that might indicate that it was stored in a moist environment, which might have a made the wood softer(?) All in all, not great either way, at bare minimum it was stored improperly, but the fittings look so rough and the hot glue it just seems like an overall low quality product, the glue might actually be part of the returned product idea.
On the one hand, I wouldn't generally expect much from a replica of a videogame weapon; on the other hand, very weird choice on the store's part to send you a wall hanger, considering your style of reviews
Even relatively well-regarded Chinese weapon makers like Hanwei tend to ship absolute garbage when it comes to polearms. Years ago I purchased a fairly expensive yari from Hanwei, and while the blade seems to be pretty decent, the haft and fittings are both flimsy and unacceptably poor for the price point I paid for it. I learned the hard way that the best option for polearms from China is to buy the head/blade, and mount them to a haft and fittings you get elsewhere.
My guess is that part of the ridiculous price is due to licensing fees. These days even resellers don’t want to risk Konami or whoever setting a horde of lawyers on them. Definitely not worth the money though. If you do rebuild that thing, take it all the way apart. My charitable thought is that the hot glue just fills space between the blade and the dragon casting but you never know. Also, the dragon head seems to be a separate piece from the ferrule behind it. It might unscrew. Don’t trust any part of that thing. Verify ALL of it.
I have seen that weapon in manuals and in books. The crafstmenship is definitely not historical lmao, but i think this weapon was known about even before dynasty warriors
It does seem to have popped up a fair bit in lists of Chinese weapons. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel Zhang Fei is described as using a “Snake Spear” as a weapon, which dynasty warriors clearly kept for him. But the version you see in game is definitely overly stylised to the point where it’s no longer practical or historical.
The snake spear is actually from the romance of three kingdoms books, which dynasty warriors is based on. Still fictional, just 600 years older fiction XD Also in the book its 18 feet long, and the snake name likely just referred the bronze head, not having a wavy blade.
I had a staff you could take down in fact you could separate it in to 3 sections. It had a turned steel threaded section but each was stepped down with a larger diam that was threaded and a smaller diam section also threaded. It was made with very good wood and the threaded sections were well fitted. It eventually broke with me and my friend going pretty hard core with ours we both had 1 and the point of failure was mid way up the middle wooden section no where near the steel fittings. We burned out the wood and got some poly carbonate rods of the same diam and fit that in to both of ours we broke cinder blocks and any thing else we wanted to with it it never did fail after that and it never loosened up at the joints. I also had hiking sticks like it as well that could be broken down for easy transport as they both had very sharp spiked ends. I am fairly sure both were made by the same company as the construction was identical on both other than 1 split in to 3 parts and was much larger around than the other. The hiking stick had a steel cable that kept the 2 parts together when taken down
As to the endcap, I bet the wood has shrunk and I bet the threaded middle would have backed out over time as well. The pin kinda looks like it goes in between the grain instead of perpendicular to it. Hot glue I have seen used, it does worrk and dapens vibration a lot, so it's not as bad as it seems especially if it is high temp that won't melt under any real world conditions.
Anyone building weapons with hot glue does not know what the fuck they're doing. Slopping glue into a void won't dampen vibrations. It is as bad as it seems.
It feels like the person who made it knew it was shit, said "It's fine, nobody's gonna know!" and the seller said "....... Hey, Skal, go swing this around for *five minutes."*
Well, just by looking at it, it's really more of an antiquity than anything else. Just a replica that's not even forged. When I say forged, I mean crafted by an actual professional weaponsmith. So, with that in mind, I'd like to see Zhang Fei's Serpent Pike actually made & tested. Sure everyone else would.
Well that didn't last long! Read other comments mentioning water damage, and I think that's the culprit beyond simply poor craftsmanship. I think it'd be cool to see a video of you rebuilding this thing!
I can imagine this thing setting the _Forged in Fire_ people into writhing on the ground in a seizure induced frenzy while speaking in tongues with their hair set on fire, foaming at the mouth all the while.
the way the wood split in big chunks in the haft reminds me of wood that hasn't seasoned properly, like it seems water damaged or rotted in there
The rust on the threads would agree, likely water damaged
Good point.
I agree, it did look rotten.
Looking at the grain it also appears to be of softer wood. The grain pattern wasn't very dense like hickory or walnut.
@@Wastelandman7000 My best guess would be Padouk, based on the red coloring (the non polished parts, where the metal pommel was glued on, are bright orange, so it's not just a stain). Padouk is actually very dense and hard, but the grain structure is shorter
the ultimate wall hanger
Not even that, ugly ahhh weapon
It would nothing but infuriate me. Seeing all those flaws and constantly being reminded about the cost. That thing is trash.
In an outhouse maybe
The ultimate overpriced piece of crap is more accurate.
no kidding
Wow.
A Skallagrim weapon destruction video.
Something I didn't know I missed until I saw another one.
The perfect gift for the holidays!
I'm glad your shoulder / elbow seems to be better.
Still not fully healed, and this made it worse. But better than it was a couple months ago, so I'm slowly getting there.
@@Skallagrim looking forward to see you sparring with RSW but your recovery is the first priority.
Yes, failing cuts produce lots of resistance and is no good for injuries. Also glad no one is hurt when the stuff broke.
Damm, hope it gets better soon!
@@Skallagrim Hope you get back to 100% soon. Peace and healing good sir.
@@Skallagrim take your time to heal
Did they forget who Skall is and what he does? Were they hoping he’d just review its aesthetics? It’s a cool idea…wonder how well it would do if it had quality components and construction.
And a one piece handle with proper joinery
As is said above (or below depending on View), I guess a Trainee was bigmouthing and they did this to teach him a lesson.
But it doesn't even look good tho
Like the dragon head looks cheap as fuck, and the blade has this ugly shape that's too thin and has unconsistent width
@@levi2725 Congrats, you're annoying enough you make me want to defend this garbage.
putting such a decent looking blade on a flimsy stick with hot glue is absolute weapon heresy...
i mean, i have recently purchased a bundle from tods workshop that includes; a type 14 arming sword, a dagger and an eating knife ALL with scabbard for 700..
this poleweapon thing is just horrible for its price tag
That was wild. Nowhere near the destructive testing of Forged in Fire or anything, and yet it failed in most ways it could. Thanks for proving yet again you're always honest in your reviews Skall.
To be fair, a lot of failures on Forged in Fire are caused by the wide load old guy testers who have zero technique. Numerous times when blades have snapped it was because they heavily scalloped the cut and the blade actually turned sideways halfway through the target, putting all the stress on the blade in a way even a well-made sword would snap.
That's a shit show in my book. Just saying. :)
@@thisdude9363 I like how you wrote what I wrote, but nicely and kind.
honestly, if they sold JUST the metal parts, with a better socket and tang of the blade, and let the customer source the wooden shaft by themselves, it would be fine. So yes, I would love to see you make a new (and better) spear from it.
Yeah I would definitely pay like $150-200 or just the hardware
All the meatal is crap.
Useless. Those fittings are the cheapest of Chinisium pot metal.
The painted "patina " is a dead giveaway.
@@vorpalblades looked like brass to me. A simple cast. Just like the blade is made of a simple Carbon Steel. Not bad, not worth 600$. Mediocre
@bl4cksp1d3r Nah, that's definitely the cheapest of shit.
I've seen plenty of them.
Brass patina does not look like that.
For 600 goddamn dollars I expect it to shoot laser beams and cut through tanks. This is criminal.
No kidding. This is the kind of results you expect from “Asian Imports Store” *high quality stainless steel* kind of stuff.
$600 is also the price of LK Chen's Han Dynasty Sha polearm shipped to North America...which looks better, is way more practical, and is presumably better built.
@@Intranetusa Couldn't be much worse
Criminal? That would explain the sirens.
or maybe made out of gold, then it would really commit to being a wallhanger at least
the design of the spear is actually from the Ming dynasty novel "romance of the three kingdom", which Dynasty warriors is based upon. Essentially the design of the spear is fantasy weapon before Hollywood.
Even then the original version would have likely been a bit less impractical (even if it was more of a trophy/display weapon) as the DW version is even more ramped up and stylised.
This is something that was sent for review? Someone thought; 'let's go drum up some business by showcasing our products to reviewers who are well known to give honest and unbiased reviews.' And they send a $100 slapped together wall hanger that they sell for $600. Did they think because they sent it for free they would get a favourable review?
No publicity is bad publicity 🤷♀️
if they are resellers maybe drop shipping they might not have even seen the product irl and tought it was good
Who knows what was in their minds. Like did they know what they were doing? Knowing Skal they had to see this coming. Maybe someone in the company is out for revenge and is trying to tank their reputation! If so they did a good job, because I wouldn't buy anything from them after seeing this overpriced junk.
Am I the only one who partially expected the sirens to be police looking in on what some neighbor called in as "two guy flailing about with blades in their back yard" xD.
Nah, that was just the quality police. :)
@@Skallagrim I'm sure your neighbors are used to weirdness at your place by now.
@@artor9175 It's not my place, but either way the one neighbor probably is used to it.
This might be one of the best video titles I've seen from you in a while:
- Clearly marked what type of content it is (weapon test)
- something specific that might be interesting (catastrophic failure)
- The hint of something more thorough than mere cutty-cutty ("what we can learn from it").
Just commenting because I cought your "why no views"-livestream a while ago and was thinking about why I myself, despite having been subscribed for at least a decade now, have been watching less and less of your videos over the years, and maybe that might be a factor: It feels like your titles and thumbnails rarely tell me more than "oh, Skall is talking about swords again" (and... what else is new?) So when I'm in the mood for a specific type of content, it's kind of hard to tell if any given video of yours fits what I'm looking for.
Just my two cents and I'm no UA-cam-ologist but maybe something worth looking into: Do videos with more specific and focussed titles and thumbnails do better than more general ones?
IDK
I appreciate the feedback! Not sure it's that, because from what I can tell videos with more specific titles and thumbnails haven't done any better. Lately hardly anything does, seemingly no matter what I try. Or maybe I'm making mistakes that are obvious to others, but that I can't see myself. Who knows.
@@Skallagrim For example, you have a bunch of different types of content: unscripted ramblings and collabs, scripted deep dives, weapons tests, technique videos, reactions, etc., and I like some types more than others.
My personal preferences don't really matter, but that's a bunch of different types of content with probably slightly different audiences each, and at times I find it hard to tell what a video is going to be before clicking it.
Again, idfk, I got no analytics and I might just be rambling my random shower thoughts, but maybe something like very different thumbnail styles for each type of video or an " |Review" / "| Ramble" / "| HEMA techniques" whatever in the title might help?
@@Skallagrim tbh, it's Shorts content that gets pushed above longform video content rn because UA-cam and Google are directly competting with TikTok for the views of the past 2 generations of youth. So they're shunting their longform content into obscurity while Shorts are what get recommended more often.
Swords of Northshire is reseller that sells stuff for higher prices than normal for profit. You can find this spear, alongside many of their other offerings, elsewhere online for substantially less.
Where did you find that one?
@Skallagrim The lowest I can find is from an eBay seller named Swordkungfu based out of Longquan selling it for $387 USD.
Edit: Albeit, it's out of stock at the moment.
@@ShuajoX I was going to say maybe they used a dubious sub-contractor but if they're just resellers it makes sense
@@fredEVOIX Well, I might have misused the term "reseller". I know they source items from the same place as many other businesses either from or in contact with Longquan-based production facilities. Swords of Northshire does have specific customer support employees, unlike most others, where as with other places like RyanSword or Hanbon Forge, you're talking directly to those AT the forges.
Someone I once saw online ordered a sword rack from either SoN or Hanbon Forge (I think), and since they had orders from both places simultaneously, got the tracking number from the opposite business. It's really strange!
It looks to me like this was not supposed to be fully functional; hopefully it is not advertised as such.
It has "battle ready" in the link and tags. And the price tag is WAY too high for a wallhanger.
@@Skallagrim that's wild
@@Skallagrim Holy crap.
"that's a lot of pommel"...
I'm lying on the floor.
So is the pommel
Please remount, sharpen, and test its hidden potential
Glad you put that disclaimer at the beginning. I have a sword I got from them, and I haven't had any issues with it so far.
So glad that it was sent to you. You dodged the bullet there.
A pity.
Glad you guys were not injured, and let's hope that, maybe, the right people in the production chain will take notice and do something about this.
Either fix the problems, or lower the price and advertise it as a "display piece", or something.
An automaker built a car that would sell for about 16k (this was a while ago). The business jocks said they needed a car in the 26k price range, so they jacked up the price to 26k without changing anything in the car build. Just add 10k so it filled a gap in their price structure.
I don't trust price by itself as an indicator of quality. Personally, I wouldn't mail order anything for that price. I'd want to hold it in my hands and inspect it thoroughly. The glue would have had me handing it back immediately. It isn't just the glue, but the fact that the glue is obvious and ugly.
Yep, this is true for all industries. Including guns. Just because it costs a lot doesn't mean its worth a lot. "You get what you pay for" is no longer generally true. You have to be watching like a hawk to keep from being what I call "Hype-charged" Because a lot of what you're paying for is brand name and hype.
At least you can repair it with a proper haft as a project now.
The confidence of this maker to send you a product to test...and send you this.... Someone at that business lost a bet or something
Remount the blade and see how it does.
Mail it to Tod Cutler and make it his problem!
"Tod, we're having a contest to see what is the best thing you can make with this"
He returns an ingot of steel.
@@null6634He returns a stick
They could even try multiple different poles to see how the weight/length of the pole effects performance.
Given the quality of the rest of the built I'd be a bit concerned the mounting collars would split or fragment launching the blade at the cameraman or Skal.
@Wastelandman7000 I ment just the blade, not the dragon mouth part.
Now I wanna see other weapons form Dynasty Warriors aswell.
A reaction video to all the different characters weapons would be something I'd definitely watch. While there are plenty of swords, spears and other polearms in the seires it also does have some rather "unique" weapons.
This is the most charitable, mindful review of something that exploded.
Skall sounds like an engineer, maybe these companies can hire you as a contractor for qc and r&d
It should absolutely be possible to make the threaded multi-section haft work. But both coupling members have to be very substantial - the male half should be very girthy and the female part should be meaty. If the female coupling actually looks like a pipe and not just a solid hunk of metal with a giant threaded hole maybe 2/3-3/4 the diameter, then it's probably not thick enough. Also the threads should be pretty deep.
This does, of course, substantially increase weight. Swings and roundabouts, eh?
Also, if you can't do thaat... just design the head for thrusting, not swinging cus then any force travels down the pole instead of pushing against the pole. Pikes were alot more fragile than poleaxes and billhooks.
And acme threads are your friend. They won't stretch when stressed.
Seems to me that conventional threading isn't a good choice for the application, and that it would be better to look to bayonet mounting mechanisms for inspiration. After all, the purpose of both is to allow for a disassemblable polearm, and they share many design requirements and constraints.
Edit: Also, something like a bayonet mount would allow use of a non-circular shaft.
You forgot to activate its fire enchantment
[6:16] $619?? That's outrageous!
Makes me kinda sad that if you gave that kind of money to a blacksmith, he could probably make you a really good spear point for that.
@@kilppa I mean its a replica of a fictional characters weapon so its not exactly designed to be used and something you'd just hang on your wall
@@absolutelyliberated1357 Still, for that price you would expect it to look and fit better.
Edit: After finding out the reseller added a large markup, now it makes sense. Apparently, you can find it for half the price elsewhere.
got major mall ninja wall hanger vibes from this.
It's costs 600 dollars tho, that's too much for a wallhanger
Actually Zhang Fei is a character from the 14th century historical novel "Romance of the three kingdoms" and a historical character (though his deeds are almost certainly overstated). To be fair, the game dynasty warriors is also based on that novel. But more to the point, the reason for why this spear has the form that it has is because Zhang Feis weapon is described as a "1,8 zhang long serpent spear" in the romance of the three kingdoms. "Zhang" being a traditional chinese measurement. The historical value at the time of the three kingdoms period was about 1 zhang being equal to about 240cm. In other words, this spear being described as having a length of 1,8 zhang should be around 4,3m long. That's 14,1ft for you americans.
Here's the problem with weapons that appear more in historical fictions than in museums or documents, such as the 蛇矛 or "snake spear": The manufactures can only design it from artworks. Not a replica by any means because there's nothing to replicate from.
Glad to see you cutting again.
That came out totally wrong LOL
100% support you altering that spear to make it usable, hopefully the company that sent it will listen and make alterations to improve it for that price point.
I'm not subbed and I don't watch all the videos of you that appear in my timeline, but this was actually a great title/thumbnail and the video really delivered.
I know it is expensive, and time intenstive and requires an annoying amount of space and all that, but god was it fun to see you testing a weapon again. Id personally say its more fun when the weapon breaks, cause there is more to the story than "Its a properly made weapon and because of this it just works"
It would be interesting to see it disassembled so we can see if there are any other horrors awaiting us inside that handle. Quality like this makes me wonder if the blade is even attached to that peg.
Remounting with new test would be nice to see.
That's a shame.
The threaded shaft can probably be solved with judicious use of loctite, but there are no remedies for any of the other defects/shortcuts. It's almost like they didn't even design this as a battle ready piece, though I suspect you wouldn't have tested it as such if that was notated anywhere.
Yeah, "battle ready" is in the link and tags. And the price would be crazy high for a non-functional wallhanger.
Well, that's an interesting BBQ fork...
This vid is proof that skall isn't just a shill for any company that gifts him a sword
Actual spears: cheap, simple, utilitarian, effective, reliable.
"Fantasy" spears:
I ordered a "Messer / Bastard Sword / Katana Hybrid Straight Blade European Folded Steel Blade Longsword" when it was called that, and the guard/hilt was a total disaster, I made a video and left a review but they removed my pictures.
It looks like the actual blades are very well made from SoN, but anything other than katanas are slops assembled with glue.
Probably won't get sponsored by them again but honesty matters more
What kind of wood was that even? do you know? the haft must have been made out of cheapo wood, maybe even a soft wood to snap so easily.
@7:12 The haft wouldn't have to be round. You could have the metal fitting made to be ovoid on one end and round and threaded on the other. Wouldn't look as nice, who knows if it would hold up as well, but well, this broke after six hits anyway.
I would not want to be in the same zipcode as someone swinging this thing.
I'd love to see you remake this and test it again.
It would be neat to see it remounted
Hope you let us know if the seller gets back to you with an explanation
Huzzah,, enjoy your honest reviews.
Stay Safe Sir!
Well... if you like to make fondue in a 190 liter pot...
😃- That's about 50 gallons, for us Americans!
Woof! Glad you guys survived that testing without any injuries. Thanks for your contribution to consumer reviews and sharing what you learned about the spear.
As a historical note, the type of weapon 蛇矛 (She Mao) is a historical design; it looks like over the course of the Dynasty Warrior series Zhang Fei was given increasingly more outlandish versions of the spear in the artwork. But we do have (rare) surviving examples as well as plenty of depictions of them from from the Ming. Let me know if you'd like me to post some images.
Shocking. Wonder what the store expected to happen after sending you this.
A blade that cool-looking needs to be re-purposed.
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That's the thing skall, it failed everywhere BUT the hot glue. Feedback for the next model is to make it entirely out of hot glue!
The shaft snapped? That's a yikes.
"Am I seeing that right?" that was unscripted comedy
I want to tell you that I have been getting recommended your videos again upon upload! I actually see them in my suggested videos
The police while you describe the build quality tells everything we need.
I'd love to see more tests with just the blade remounted
The branding is probably what influenced the price the most.
1000% re haft this! For all its faults it seems like the blade is not completely garbage and it has a unique design you can experiment with
Some of my favorite videos of yours are when you retrofit weapons (especially bad or broken ones) so I would absolutely love to see that blade given a proper dressing. I also find it funny how a single enthusiast can refit weapons into better ones than the actual companies behind the product sometimes.
My guess of the Price:
a) Up charging due to Recognisability
b) Licensing for the Design, after all it is based on a pretty well known IP and that'll cost
Dynasty Warriors is based off of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a 14th century historical fiction novel by Luo Guanzhong. Its old as dirt. I doubt its still under copyright. The spear is probably just over priced.
With the rust and the way the fittings look, it kinda looks like it's a return product that they tried to repurpose into a review sample, which is a bad idea...
Also since there is rust, that might indicate that it was stored in a moist environment, which might have a made the wood softer(?)
All in all, not great either way, at bare minimum it was stored improperly, but the fittings look so rough and the hot glue it just seems like an overall low quality product, the glue might actually be part of the returned product idea.
The pollarm is very easy to disassemble.
The user doesn't even need to put much effort in since the weapon does the job for you
On the one hand, I wouldn't generally expect much from a replica of a videogame weapon; on the other hand, very weird choice on the store's part to send you a wall hanger, considering your style of reviews
After seeing that I wouldn't trust ANY product from that seller.
Even relatively well-regarded Chinese weapon makers like Hanwei tend to ship absolute garbage when it comes to polearms. Years ago I purchased a fairly expensive yari from Hanwei, and while the blade seems to be pretty decent, the haft and fittings are both flimsy and unacceptably poor for the price point I paid for it. I learned the hard way that the best option for polearms from China is to buy the head/blade, and mount them to a haft and fittings you get elsewhere.
Your mission Skall, should you accept it, is to dare cut the easiest target (im)possible. This polearm will self-destruct in five seconds.
Well, it truly was easy to disassemble, putting it back together though...
My guess is that part of the ridiculous price is due to licensing fees. These days even resellers don’t want to risk Konami or whoever setting a horde of lawyers on them.
Definitely not worth the money though.
If you do rebuild that thing, take it all the way apart. My charitable thought is that the hot glue just fills space between the blade and the dragon casting but you never know. Also, the dragon head seems to be a separate piece from the ferrule behind it. It might unscrew.
Don’t trust any part of that thing. Verify ALL of it.
You don't know Dynasty Warrior fans if you think they'd be deterred by anything.
Unless it's Lu Bu.
He was pursued I was game overed.
That looked promising :-(
And yes - I would watch part two :-D
That's a VERY expensive wallhanger
I really didnt see that price tag coming
I have seen that weapon in manuals and in books. The crafstmenship is definitely not historical lmao, but i think this weapon was known about even before dynasty warriors
Well, I mean, ancient craftsmen didn't have mystical hot glue.... LOL
It does seem to have popped up a fair bit in lists of Chinese weapons. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel Zhang Fei is described as using a “Snake Spear” as a weapon, which dynasty warriors clearly kept for him. But the version you see in game is definitely overly stylised to the point where it’s no longer practical or historical.
The snake spear is actually from the romance of three kingdoms books, which dynasty warriors is based on. Still fictional, just 600 years older fiction XD
Also in the book its 18 feet long, and the snake name likely just referred the bronze head, not having a wavy blade.
it is useful for a weapon to look intimidating but its also important for them to be robust and practical enough
I had a staff you could take down in fact you could separate it in to 3 sections. It had a turned steel threaded section but each was stepped down with a larger diam that was threaded and a smaller diam section also threaded. It was made with very good wood and the threaded sections were well fitted. It eventually broke with me and my friend going pretty hard core with ours we both had 1 and the point of failure was mid way up the middle wooden section no where near the steel fittings. We burned out the wood and got some poly carbonate rods of the same diam and fit that in to both of ours we broke cinder blocks and any thing else we wanted to with it it never did fail after that and it never loosened up at the joints. I also had hiking sticks like it as well that could be broken down for easy transport as they both had very sharp spiked ends. I am fairly sure both were made by the same company as the construction was identical on both other than 1 split in to 3 parts and was much larger around than the other. The hiking stick had a steel cable that kept the 2 parts together when taken down
As to the endcap, I bet the wood has shrunk and I bet the threaded middle would have backed out over time as well. The pin kinda looks like it goes in between the grain instead of perpendicular to it. Hot glue I have seen used, it does worrk and dapens vibration a lot, so it's not as bad as it seems especially if it is high temp that won't melt under any real world conditions.
Anyone building weapons with hot glue does not know what the fuck they're doing.
Slopping glue into a void won't dampen vibrations.
It is as bad as it seems.
Thank you, Skall! I am glad there were no injuries. Maybe can try hyping the chat and liking other people's comments to boost the algo?
Maybe a disgrunteled worker send you a sample... lol, would be funy.
Please properly rebuild that weapon. That was a catastrophe
Thank you skall for doing this so we dont waste money
Thank you for the demonstration. Guess now you have some firewood and a very fancy barbecue skewer?
That dragon looks like he's been paying for college in less than savory ways.
I missed the test cutting videos and that sweet slo mo camera action.
It feels like the person who made it knew it was shit, said "It's fine, nobody's gonna know!" and the seller said "....... Hey, Skal, go swing this around for *five minutes."*
Love your shirt Skall!😎🤘
Love the concept wavy sword thingy !!
Aside from the tip, wavy blades are historical, notably the kris and flamberge renaissance blades
Well, just by looking at it, it's really more of an antiquity than anything else.
Just a replica that's not even forged. When I say forged, I mean crafted by an actual professional weaponsmith.
So, with that in mind, I'd like to see Zhang Fei's Serpent Pike actually made & tested. Sure everyone else would.
Sharpening and re-mounting sound like a good idea
I did not expect the $600 price tag!
Well that didn't last long! Read other comments mentioning water damage, and I think that's the culprit beyond simply poor craftsmanship.
I think it'd be cool to see a video of you rebuilding this thing!
I can imagine this thing setting the _Forged in Fire_ people into writhing on the ground in a seizure induced frenzy while speaking in tongues with their hair set on fire, foaming at the mouth all the while.
I wouldnt have thought that hot glue was a favourite material in any part of the sword making process....
Would love to see a remounting and re-fitting to a single piece haft. It actually being sharp would also significantly help.