how are you today you look familiar did
you tell me something before
not long ago i brought you a grammy
award and sold it
this guy came in a while ago and sold my
dad a grammy award which we later found
out we weren't allowed to sell
so i got to proceed very carefully here
we got something for you
oh sweet a ninja sword no that's a
samurai sword same thing
i came down to the pawn shop today to
sell my 1600
samurai sward i got the sword because
the client
owed me about 300 bucks i like to sell
it because when my wife
when she's angry at me she kind of looks
at it do you mind if i open it up
be very careful though it's pretty sharp
oh it's nice man what do you know about
it
well this is a yatsuru sword made in
about 1600.
okay so where'd you get this at man well
i'm a lawyer and
my client you see he owed me some money
on a case i'd done for him and uh he
left the sword with me
he never came back so towards mine i
think it's something that you probably
would like to have
look at this blade all right that's the
real deal take special people to do this
you know
i'm wondering if these are blood stains
on here they could be blood stains they
could be rust
one of the things about these swords and
one of the ways you can kind of tell
that it's old
is that they didn't have stainless steel
back then they had carbon steel
so when you touch it it will actually
rust in the spot where you touch it
that's why
they had to keep them in the sheaths and
probably most of these are from spots
where it's actually been touched
okay samurais were highly skilled
japanese warriors
and their main weapon was their sword
the master swordsmans who made them
really had to make them perfect so it
could take over six months to finish one
one of the problems that we have with
these type of swords is that
they never really changed the design of
them because the original design was the
best design
this sword could be 100 years old it
could be a thousand years old
okay i mean it looks as old as you're
saying it is i just
wish i knew more about him it's a shame
too because i do know a guy who would be
able to tell me everything there is to
know about this
but he's actually in another state right
now
lately i've really been trying to prove
to my dad that i deserve to be part
owner of the shop
but this is a tough call if i buy this
sword without getting it checked out it
could really backfire
but i've seen a few of these sell for
thousands of dollars
if this one's legit it might be just the
thing to show them i'm capable of
handling risk in a bigger way around
here
any idea what you're looking to get out
of it five thousand dollars
probably my biggest concern is whether
or not this could be restored in the
states
that being said my man i'm seeing like
800 bucks
that's not even a hundred dollars a
century on this thing
it's worth every bit of five thousand
dollars problem i have is that i don't
know enough about it to pay you that
much
i'll go up to 12.
i'll come down to four
if you're gonna hold my feet to the fire
make me pay as much as i can it's gonna
be 1500 bucks
i'll come down to 2 000. i've got five
of them right there
1500 bucks my man that's all i'm willing
to risk
deal deal all right tell me you want to
take care of him hell yeah meet me at
the counter
all right when he offered me 800 i was
ready to jump and
do a dance but i had to keep my cool
because the price was still going up
dude i can slice the apple right out of
the air with that samurai sword
no you couldn't earlier a guy brought in
a cool old samurai sword our sword guy
wasn't able to come in and tell us what
it's worth
so i took a guess and bought it for 1500
and of course chum won't stop talking
about it
he's obsessed with being a ninja as we
all saw from the security video a while
ago
so i'm not letting him anywhere near
this one you would have to throw the
apple up going
to take the sword back chocolate chum
it'll be fun it'll be dope i'm telling
you what sort are we talking about
i was talking just in general cory tell
you old man what the hell you did this
time
i bought an old samurai store from like
the 1500s and
who checked it out it was legit i was
there so you checked it out
well with corey uh oh hell we're in
trouble
cory you realize that there is fake
samurai swords out there
obviously well i mean there's companies
that make them just to look
like they're old i mean they actually
aged them and everything else you bought
it from the same dude that sold you that
grammy
shut up really did
we all somehow forget that i've been
doing this a long time
no but you got my money out in the wind
you're spending money like you own the
place look dude if i see an opportunity
i'm gonna take it that's what you do
that's what you taught me
i only do it if i have a basic
understanding of what i'm looking at you
don't know anything about a samurai
sword
i'm not worried about it guys it's i got
everybody coming down to check it out
all right corey don't let chum which
slice any apples with it
all right you guys want to leave us we
can get back to work thank you
hey mike how you doing buddy hey what's
up cory how you doing
i got this for you to take a look at man
i took a shot on it for like 1500 bucks
and
i'm baffled man i couldn't tell you what
i bought it's a samurai sword
shut up chum i am a japanese sword
appraiser
and dealer the guys call me up whenever
they get something new or interesting
and i help them determine what its
current value is
after world war ii it's estimated about
three million
japanese swords came out of japan that
were confiscated by the occupation
forces
most likely this is something like that
okay
samurai's are pretty badass well samurai
were very honorable
very determined warriors so even if you
and i were fighting and i admit defeat
i would even ask you honorably to cut
off my head and assist me
they wanted to basically show that okay
i'm a man
this is it it's my time and can you help
me
not the way i'd play it but okay the
japanese warrior also known
as the samurai was pretty much the
professional warrior of the day
the japanese sword is what gave the
samurai his status
you could not be a samurai without the
samurai sword
so do you have any concerns about this
sword pretty much i spent 1500 bucks on
something i really don't know that much
about
well let's see if you got lucky
this is the proper way to take apart a
japanese sword
they've been doing this style for
centuries
we take off the handle so we can see if
it's signed
and it does have a signature
is it yasasugu yes that's right okay
this maker did not work for merchants he
only worked for
high-level samurai oh wow you see this
mark right here
this is the family crest of the tokugawa
family who ruled for 250 years
from 1596 all the way down until the
1800s
and the generations of the swordsmen
kept the use of this mark
in japan if you were caught using this
mark without any permission
you could be beheaded and your entire
family as well oh wow
the two symbols that had the most
meaning were the imperial families and
the tokugawa family which is the symbol
that's on cory sword
and because of this it's a very rare
source
okay good what year was it mate in the
late 1600s the sword smith is the fifth
generation what do you think it's worth
well in as is condition
it's probably worth about five to six
thousand right now oh that's a score big
horse
so you could take it and restore it for
me right well i could take care of it
for you
gonna be about three thousand dollars
and what's it worth after that
oh this sword because he's a rare maker
you're looking at probably about 15 000.
take it appreciate it mike all right
i had a knot in my stomach waiting for
mike to get here but that was exactly
the news i needed
i definitely took a bit of a risk on
this one but sometimes you just gotta go
for it
and i really can't wait to rub it in my
dad's face if this doesn't prove i
deserve to be part owner of this place
then i don't know what will
hey mike what's going on buddy hey corey
well you remember that sword
is that the sword this is it aw sweet
let me grab everybody real quick
pops chum earlier i got an old samurai
sword for an absolute steal
and my buddy told me it'd be worth 15
grand restored
i can't wait to see the look on my dad's
face when he hears the news
mike's here with the sword all right the
one you paid too much for
feast your eyes on this wow when you
hand the sword to somebody
you do it with respect to show trust and
the edges to me so i'm trusting you
and give it to you like so this is it
huh
that looks awesome man sweet that is
pretty
you can't get this type of workmanship
by using machines it was all done by
hand
i mean it looks great mike how'd you do
it well i sent the blade to my friend
who's a japanese professionally trained
polisher
then the handle was re-wrapped by
another friend of mine
and now it's in 100 restored condition
so this sword actually belonged to a
samurai oh a real samurai
this maker did not work for merchants he
only worked for
high-level samurai so this is a real
samurai
sword let me check it out no no
so how sharp is it it's basically a
28-inch razor blade
um usually i don't do this but do you
have a piece of paper yeah hold this for
me here we go here's some paper
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oh wow so if you notice
that's pretty clean and i didn't swing
very hard yeah that's uh it's better
than i could do with a pair of scissors
did my idiot grandson make any money off
of this
you realize i'm holding like a razor
sharp sword right now right
oh shut up so what's something like this
worth
the sword is not worth about
fifteen thousand dollars fifteen
thousand dollars
what am i paying you it's 3 300 for all
the restoration work we did
so when was last time you tripled your
money dad grandpa
oh shut up chum anybody every dog gets
lucky every once in a while
yeah i just remember you screwing up a
lot lately
thanks mike all right thank you thanks a
lot better see you later you have a good
day my friend
i'm getting really tired of being
treated like this i just made a lot of
money for this shop and they're still
giving me crap
if they don't start realizing i'm an
important part of this company i might
have to go somewhere where i could be
appreciated
let me check it out john this is for
real ninjas bro come on
you