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Pros: Blade Material, Handle Material, Overall Quality, Materials, Finish, Usable
Cons: None
The modern suburito
I ordered two, to make training sessions a bit variable. They are not excessively heavy, but when holding one of them in one hand, at the same angle I'm holding my katana, the Cold Steel Suburito is definitely heavier. Swinging them as I do my CS bokkens, takes a bit more effort, and my arms grow tired a lot quicker. A hundred suburi with a bokken? Pfft, try a hundred suburi with a suburito! When holding my CS bokken after training, it feels like I'm holding a stick, a stick that just happens to look like a bokken, and feels almost weightless. At the bottom of the handle, you can see Cold Steel (underneath), but that's not the only place Cold Steel is written. It is also written on the blade, in Japanese characters, a nice little detail. Instead of just going with a bland plastic surface on the blade, like on their bokken, they have taken the time to give it a wood grain finish look. While it may not be traditional, having Japanese training swords in plastic, it greatly reduces the amount of maintenance needed.
