Fake and real Japanese NCO swords

Konnichiwa and welcome to another episode of the samurai monkey 42. I had a lot of requests on making a video on how to tell apart a fake Japanese NCO sword from a real one. So in this video I'm gonna be teaching you guys what to look for when buying a Japanese NCO sword and how to tell from a fake one to a real one. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna teach you a few things to look at when you're buying the NCO sword but I gotta tell you there are a lot of really good fakes now. Also what's gonna make everyone great on just telling both of them apart is just taking a look at a lot of real Japanese swords and a lot of the fake Japanese swords. So what I'm gonna do is at the end of the video I'm gonna show you guys a lot of fake Japanese NCO swords and then I'm gonna show you a lot of real Japanese NCO swords. So looking at the different types of real and fake swords will make you better on just choosing a Japanese NCO sword and just stopping you from buying a fake one and then just later realizing that you completely bought a fake NCO sword. So I'm gonna show you guys just the first thing that gives away a fake Japanese sword is the stamping. The stamping you see here it's always large on the on the fake NCO swords and it's it's really about a half inch on the fake swords and it's about a 1 4th on the real Japanese swords and the one in the middle is always very tiny it's about a 1 16 of size on the stamping. So the stamping is just something that just gives away the fake Japanese NCO swords. Another thing is just the the pain. If you take a look at the the pain you're always gonna have some missing paint here and here but obviously there's a lot of NCO swords that are still in great shape. So that is something just to consider like I said if you take a look at a lot of Japanese NCO swords you're immediately gonna know that it's a real Japanese NCO sword. Also it's the level of craftsmanship and just the rich material that the Japanese used during World War II just the level of craftsmanship on how things work it's just not there when it comes to the fake ones just because they're fake and they're trying to make some money off of them fast. You have to remember that this were weapons and this were used during wars so they need to be resistant. The material on it was even though it is a machine-made sword still a weapon that can last for a very long time and as you can see there are just still great great condition Japanese NCO swords that are just out there still after all these years and they can still be put into service. So these swords were really built to last. Another thing that I can tell you is just pretty much the suba also has it just a different color. I've noticed on the fake ones suba is like darker sometimes because they just try to make it look old but on this brass subas like this the the color is just different and you have to just look at all these different swords. If you're not familiar with just a different type of NCO swords the late produced NCO swords might resemble like a fake NCO sword but they're not also you just have to know just the different types of swords really all you have to do if you consider buying a Japanese NCO sword for the first time is you have to just do some research you have to look at multiple of them because if you're just trying to buy one just by the look and then you're trying to buy one that is just cheap you probably if you pay like $100 for a Japanese NCO sword well that's not going to be a real Japanese sword. I'm not saying that this can't happen but you know most of the time it may be 99.9% of the time this is going to be a fake Japanese NCO sword. These swords are worth a lot of money they're worth more than $100 more than $200 so please consider that when buying a Japanese NCO sword you guys can always shoot me a message on my eBay store or on my YouTube channel and I'll be happy to answer you guys just any questions about the swords and just it's obvious that I don't know everything but I've been collecting Japanese swords for a very very long time now so I know a lot I've learned a lot about about them now so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna show you guys just different types of swords. I'm gonna show you some pictures of fake Japanese swords and then I'm gonna show you guys some original Japanese NCO swords so check them out