Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-3146930-20140417025237

It may also be because Jaune's weapon is from a war-era. As you said, if they were at war they would need to mass produce weapons as quickly as possible to arm their soldiers. However (as far as we know) Hunters are not soldiers and act for the most part independently from each other. That gives them the freedom to have their own weapon(s). If Jaune is using a mass produced sword made for soldiers in an army, it would make sense that it isn't as flashy as the custom made weapons used by Hunters-in-training and Hunters in general.