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I had not heard of toxicity. Can you elaborate? That seems to be a cause for concern.

Toxic Wood Site
This site is for musical instrument-makers, so they have to be more careful than us when it comes to toxic wood.

Well, if someone showed up to our ARMA practice with a bokken, and wanted to spar with us, I know for a fact that at least several of us would be game. We don't train with/use/learn katanas at all (mostly longsword), but it would be fun to face off with one. We could probably learn quite a bit from ...