Heat Treatment on Kris Cutlery Folded Steel Dao?
Dec 26, 2010 16:35:32 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2010 16:35:32 GMT
I've been looking at the functional production daos available at present and Kris Cutlery's Folded Steel Dao has caught my eye: www.kultofathena.com/product.asp ... +Steel+Dao
I've checked out Kris Cutlery's reputation, which seems satisfactory, but I haven't been able to find anything in writing about whether this particular blade has been heat treated and what the quality of that treatment might be.
My next step will be to go pester someone at the company for the information, but I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed the answer somewhere obvious.
For reference, the attraction for me is primarily in the relative plainness of the fittings coupled with the seemingly high quality in other regards. Most of the high quality daos I've seen look very gaudy to me and tend to be even more expensive. I'd love to see what the Rodell designed dao might look like before settling on anything else, but I haven't heard anything new about that in a long time.
Thanks for any insight,
I've checked out Kris Cutlery's reputation, which seems satisfactory, but I haven't been able to find anything in writing about whether this particular blade has been heat treated and what the quality of that treatment might be.
My next step will be to go pester someone at the company for the information, but I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed the answer somewhere obvious.
For reference, the attraction for me is primarily in the relative plainness of the fittings coupled with the seemingly high quality in other regards. Most of the high quality daos I've seen look very gaudy to me and tend to be even more expensive. I'd love to see what the Rodell designed dao might look like before settling on anything else, but I haven't heard anything new about that in a long time.
Thanks for any insight,
The folded still Dao is heat treated... but I can't speak to the durability or quality of the folded steel swords... only the 5160 steel swords that come from their main forge in the Philippines. I've owned a few different swords from there... and they were all of very good quality. 
