It does what it is designed to do. I triple glazed it, added felt pads where the sword rests and felt pads on the bottom. Easy to assemble with a little glue to set the pieces permanently. The Kanji is done nicely on the horizontal piece, but is not shown in the current photo here at the time of this review. Great price. Master Instructor, Lyle D. Yates

This is an ok stand for display. It is only 5 bucks so I'm not complaining but 3 stars because its not as nice as the lacquered ones but again it was only 5 bucks and I got what I paid for. Budk has not failed me yet.

Very well made , easy to put together

Does the job, nothing fancy.

It looks a tad bit cheap;however, a little paint will help what really earns the 4 stars is the customer service I asked them jokingly to draw a my little pony on it and they did.

this stand is a great buy..very happy with it, assembled it in 15 seconds , looks great in my livingroom very firm doesn't wobble good price for this stand and excellent service from true swords

Very simple, easy to assemble, though slightly unsturdy, I recomend gluing it together. It's unsanded, so very rough around the edges, a matte finish so it kinda needs a gloss coat. Very basic sword stand, but still great quality for the price!

Pretty good stand. Durable, inexpensive, and very basic. Only downside would be that whenever you touch it, the paint comes off without much effort, so that kind of sucks. Other than that! Can't beat it for the price.

Kind hard to assemble but once its in you cant tell any imperfections. Great piece for the price!.

It works great, it just requires ALOT of patience and elbow grease.