Thanks for all the kind words, Adam - it was a great project (I'm still building them today, every now and then), and it was great working with you on it. I think the kids are still star-struck from meeting up with you in Montreal!:)

KZfaq: "Would you like to listen to Adam talk about a sword for nearly 13 minutes?" Me: "I am ready to receive the knowledge."

“Next up we have this beautiful piece from the Savage collection”

Adam: Hey! How about a commission? Jason: Yeah, sure. Adam: I bought you a CNC machine. Jason: _Best commission ever._

Kill Bill Trivia: At the beginning of the fight scene between O-Ren and The Bride, after O-Ren says, in Japanese, "I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't you may not last 5 minutes", it is exactly 4 minutes and 59 seconds from the time she steps forward and the music cues, until the fatal blow of the duel.

The Man-at-Arms replica of this sword is exceptional. The details are pretty accurate for the movie sword but they actually made Tamahagane/bloom steel and then do a full traditional crafting process on it including engraving, which is a joy to watch. I assume Adam has already watched that video, but I still recommend it to anyone who hasn't. Pronunciation guide for anyone who cares: Iaido - Ee-Aye-Doh

"... I can tell you, with no ego, this is my finest sword. If, on your journey, should you encounter God, God will be cut."

It makes the video so much more interesting when the person doing the video has a passion for the things they are talking about. That's why I love this channel.

Iaido (ee-ai, btw), is the art of drawing and striking with the katana _in the same motion_. The act of drawing is itself a cut, the idea being that you can strike down an opponent as you draw, and be ready to face the next one. Terminology; Tsuba; the guard Fuchi; the reinforcing band around the top of the grip Kashira; pommel cap, covers and protect the end of the tsuka core. Saya; scabbard Habaki; blade collar, helps hold the Tsuba in place and keep the sword in the saya, traditionally copper, sometimes silver or brass. Koiguchi; reinforcement around the mouth of the saya. Often just a ring of horn flush with the rest of the saya, not an external part. Kojiri; decorative/protective tip piece for the saya. Not always present. Seppa; spacers, typically brass or copper, used to adjust the tightness of the hilt in case of shrinkage.

The child-like enthusiasm and the gleam in Adam's eyes is just wonderful and contagious (no pun intended!) I love these videos! Thank you for your joy, it's awesome! 😄❤

For years off and on I've been trying to get a good look at the design on the saya and have never been able to completely make it out. Now finally I got to see it in close detail. Plus an explanation of it's meaning. Thank you Adam!

oh man! I was just watching Kill Bill and have thought about how nice it would be to get a replica of that sword!

With that sword, one will actually have the power god and anime on his side.

His energy and joy with talking about his props and the collaborations with other makers are infectious!!

that they bought everything is wild to me, being heavily involved with making Babydoll's sword for Suckerpunch. everything on that thing was custom made from scratch.

Kill Bill is one of the few movies me and my wife both love and love movie props and this is the best of all of that. Great job.

I’ve come so close to ordering a replica Bride sword so many times. The fact that NONE of them have the gold strips down the top and bottom of the saya/scabbard is an absolute deal breaker for me, and continues to be so. I just don’t know why this is omitted, it’s the first thing I noticed on screen and is such an integral part of the design. Pisses me off no end because I want one for my collection so badly. Loved this video, the attention to detail is exquisite.

oh heck yes! Now i need to go rewatch the movies!

I've never seen Kill Bill and I'm not particularly interested in swords, but seeing Adam geek out about it kind of makes my day.

Hey Adam, I really love all the obsessive details of this! Could you do a lightsaber special, showing all your lightsabers? Pretty please please please pleeeeeeeeeeease!?!?!

I absolutely love the emotion in the last 20 seconds. I mean it’s clear through the entirety of the video how Adam cares for this sword and other works. But it’s in that last 20 secs where we see a sliver of all the emotion swimming under the surface

Tested crew and/or Adam: Will there be any return of the live streams/Q&A any time, or are those retired? I very rarely was able to participate live, but I've enjoyed all of them anyway, and I miss the unfiltered stories from Adam.

Lovely piece; as a former student and teacher of MJER Iaido, (18 years, now retired from training) I can see your passion for the sword is heartfelt. Ken shin ichi nyo - the sword and the spirit are one. Wishing you all the best now and in the future.

I really love this channel. It’s just amazing!!

I imagine, this video, is one of the highlights of Jason‘s life. As a fellow maker, nothing makes me happier than to see the end-user so excited about some thing I’ve made. I bet just as you are today, Jason will be talking about this collaboration for years. What a beautiful piece you both worked together to create

I love how excited Adam is showing us this piece! The smile was infectious.

Never in my life have I wanted one of your props this badly.

This is a beautiful story and connection between Adam and the maker.

Bloody hell I love all of your videos Adam, you are a gift to humanity and an icon for all geeks

I’ve been thinking about making my own replica of this sword but mainly for practice, the one I really want to make and have in my collection is Budd’s sword! All the close ups of this will definitely help! Blows my mind how Adam has the same type of appreciation for these beautiful pieces!

That is so ridiculously cool! Only thing better than a screen-used prop is being able to build a replica using parts from the same vendors the propmaster used.

I'm close to tears, Kill Bill is such an important movie in my life, it changed me. This sword is an abolute thing of beauty, I hope Adam treasures it and from this video I can tell he does.

Mr. Savage you are such a great influence in my life, these videos are such a treat!

The story behind it all makes it special on so many levels.

Sometimes the journey of making the prop, costume, piece is the value. The story of the collab makes my heart feel good.

I love that somewhere the prop-master for the film who charged a fortune for hand crafted swords just grabbed "handle 32, blade 6, scabbard 11" from a catalogue.

Now, I need to watch Kill Bill again. One of my favorite movies!

This is every fan's dream, glad to see you're living it Adam!

Love to hear people's nerd-gasms over properly and skillfully made things. A pleasure to watch.... and beautiful work

Dude! I never comment on youtube videos but this is amazing stuff. Just riffing on a sword you built with a creator is amazing. Love this creativity machine you've built!

I appreciate your time in detailing the sword.

This has to be in my top 3 favorite channels on KZfaq! Learn alot of cool stuff from Adam.

What a wonderful story for such a wonderful item, thanks for sharing!

Such a beautiful build! Besides the tang on the hilt it's absolutely spot on! One of my favorite builds from Mr. Savage! 🔥👍

Very cool. I have an iaito sword that an old boyfriend gave me back in the late ‘70’s and it’s so cool. I used it when cosplaying some anime characters. Thanks for sharing this Adam. Your obsession with accuracy is awesome!

It's amazing and so are you Adam. Thanks for sharing your stories with us.

Yeah those swords are often used in martial arts ceremonies and drawing practice, that's a gorgeous sword you it's did fantastic

I can only imagine how great it is when adam commissions a maker to make him something.

I’ve had a replica of this sword around 15 years ... love it

Man that thing is sick dude. Amazing work by your friend

I really like the amount of acknowledgement he gave to Jason 🤟🤟🤟

This sword was also featured in Adam's Home Office Tour (with Norm) years ago..

One of Adam's favorite pieces in his collection

I love it. I wish someone would mass produce exact replicas, but made with real high quality steel. I’m sure there’s enough people out there, myself included, that would like to buy one.

I would really really hope that one day Adam decides to build some form of Museum for his collection of stuff!!! I would pay good money to see it all!

Love the detail of this piece. I own two prop swords from The Last Samurai that were used in the final battle scene. The attention to detail is amazing for props.

Cool! Last year I bought an authentic (antique) Japanese katana from the Early Edo Period; costing just over $9000 (shipped from Japan). These swords are a work of art. They're absolutely beautiful!

Man what are the odds, I introduced Kill Bill vol.1 to my mum last night, the same day this video was released. Cool stuff :)

Thanks for this geek out session. And yes, that is a really nice looking replica.

Mr. Savage! You’ve shared so many of your treasured objects! Will you please share your hat collection with us? Don’t you have quite a few? Any unique storage?

I just love Your enthusiasm! It is contagious! In a god way!

Adam are the geek we all aspire to be!

I remember that thread.. Inspired me to do my own build. Mine isn't quite as accurate as I had to work on a budget but my parts are as close as I could get with the money I was working with.

This is like for me what prop making is about, finding the jigsaw components and then having the skill to put it together. Blade assembly really isn't too hard as long as things fit relatively well but what an awesome piece I want one so bad but UK laws make it very hard

A small thing that many might not notice - but as someone who has chickens - I spotted the chicken in the first blade photo from Jason (2:27) 😃

Lol, Adam is very giddy over this. Love it.

I love how over the top nuts he is regarding the little details of the sword xD

I just watched the Kill Bill movies for the first time this week!

What an amazing piece of art! Thanks for sharing,

Thats a great interesting story, makes you think about the journey to acquire knowledge is often more rewarding than the knowledge itself.

Tarantino is BY FAR my favourite filmmaker, which naturally leads to Kill Bill being one of my favourite movies of all time. I can't explain how much it means to me. And this sword really give me those strong urges of spending insane amounts of money I don't have because of it. Adam's enthusiasm for it is only fitting.

This my all time favourite prop replica I have ever seen! Congrats....just need a selfie with Sonny Chiba

Adam, I know you won't read this but out of anyone I've ever seen growing up (I'm 39 now), you're the only one that I want to meet before I die and shake hands with. I'm a maker at heart myself and use your outlook on life as my guiding light. Anyway, cheers. Bye.

Outstanding video Adam Savage

You’re enthusiasm is extremely infectious, I couldn’t give less of a fuck about swords but this video was fascinating

A beautiful piece and so well researched! What a great project....love researching things like this

Great story, so much details on this replica, amazing :)

As soon as I read the title, "The Lonely Shepherd" started to play in my head-this is how hard the movie gets ya.

Great video Adam, I love your enthusiasm!

Nice! I have a WW2 japanese officers katana that my great grandfather brought back from the pacific. We had it analyzed and the blade happened to be 450 years old. Signed by Ietsugu around 1550.

Hattori Hanzō would be honored!

Very Cool Kill Bill Bride Sword replica !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love his passion for his own Katana ^^

check out the Man At Arms video of the Kill Bill sword...those guys are amazing.

I do believe he made it through the entire video without saying the word "katana" or mentioning the name "Hattori Hanzō". I don't think I could have managed that even if I tried.

I read about this one, I really really wanted an accurate replica, but I couldn’t find an even remotely simple way to get one. I’m totally cool with you having one instead.

With love from Russia. I used to watch Mythbusters since I was 10. Now I watch Tested, and god gamn, that's fantastic

So glad you made this video! I’ve been so curious about where the sword props for Kill Bill came from. They stood out to me because they had a lot of specific detail and attentively payed to them that isn’t usually given in Hollywood movies with katanas, but I couldn’t find any info about if any of the props still existed or where they came from. Cool to hear that an iaido company produced them. (It’s pronounced ee ai doh by the way, like sea, cry, dough)

Started this video, and one of the thoughts was about replica hunters All I could think about is having a replica forum member, build a delorean time machine, to go back in time, to photograph/measure actual prop items, see how they were built, to come back and build 100% accurate prop items🤣😄

That's best replica, I have seen of the katana

I didn't read the title very well because I thought this was another one-day build and I was shocked it only took a day. Now I understand.

Hattori Hanzo would be proud!

Ilya from Baltimore Knife and Sword could make an amazing authentic version even forged as an ancient sword would be.

LOL, that reminded me that I studied Iaido when i was young and my sensei was insane, we practiced it in practical situations, lifts , office, cars ,toilets

Cute... Tune in to Tested to see Adam's sword baby lol.

This channel has some inherent danger for me. Everytime Adam has show and tell or a tooltip, i want to go out spending money like there's no tomorrow 😀

man., what a beutifull sword! the work that into it is insane man, thanks for showing it off :D

I have a brides sword hanging in my office. Love it.

Yes Iaito's are the way to go if you want something authentic, but also not in the $5000+ range. I've been practicing Iaido in the east bay for 22 years now.There are a few companies around, although we've been getting our sword from Nosyudo for years now.

Adam is correct, the art of drawing the blade is referred to as Iaidō. Iaidō emphasizes being aware and capable of quickly drawing the sword and responding to a sudden attack. Much like Kendo, Iaidō is used as a form of spiritual training and sport. Battōjutsu is the predecessor to Iaidō and is more in line to what was used for actual fighting and slaying as it practices and studies the dynamics of sword drawing while regarding live action factors of timing, distance, targeting, and the specifics of one's sword, including its size and blade. This is reflected in the fact that Battōjutsu is normally performed and practiced with a live steel blade while Iaidō would be practiced with these "Iaidō blades" that Adam refers to in the video. A katana being drawn from its sheath moves with a much greater speed and force than when it is being wielded normally, almost 2-3 times faster. When drawing the sharp edge of the blade curves upward against the inside of the sheath, allowing the swordsman to use more strength in drawing it without having to worry about applying extra control to his movements. You can almost think of the sheath to work in a similar way as a gun barrel for a bullet - the blade's path is directed by where the sheath is aiming at the time of the draw.