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Post by Nox on May 18, 2012 4:26:37 GMT
Hi everyone, I mainly am a collector of jian swords when it comes to chinese weapons, but I plan on eventually getting a good dao sword to add to my collection, I have one wushu dao (solid but no edge) and a wooden one for forms practice.
I was wondering if anyone had any opinions or experience with any production or non production dao.
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Post by junon on May 21, 2012 8:00:10 GMT
Hi Nox, I would suggest to take a look at sevenstarstrading merchandise; Seven Stars is owned and managed by Scott M. Rodell, a reputable antique chinese swords dealer and sole distributor for Huanuo chinese sword in US. sevenstarstrading.com/site/huanuo/I guess in term of quality & accuracy, the chinese swords is dominated by the top three (Huanuo, Hanwei, and Chris Zhou / Zheng Wu). Hanwei Beile Dao [yanmaodao] and Yangling Dao/Song Dao [liuyedao] are good, so does Huanuo Gold Round Grip Dao ; unfortunately all of those are close to $1000 mark. Another alternative would be Dynasty Forge chinese Dao (made by Huanuo). I believe it would be less than $500 on KoA. I was tempted to get DF dao before ; but in the end I managed to get Hanwei Beile Dao and can't be happier. I believe swordfan have both Beile Dao and Hanwei Song Sword and said the Song sword is much nicer than beile dao! So I guess you can't go wrong with Hanwei or Huanuo for high end production dao. |
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Post by Vue on May 21, 2012 8:32:51 GMT
There's also Enlightment Sword 'production', Zhisword 'production + Custom', Jin-Shi 'custom', Sino sword 'custom' and Hung-Shing 'custom'. There are many more forges based in China but it's very hard to communicate due to the language barrier, IMO some of the forge in China offer far more greater variety of products than the forges already been mentioned. Here's is properly one of, if not the best you can get www.lqzwdj.com/ - enjoy the eye candy my friend  |
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Post by ineffableone on May 21, 2012 8:39:58 GMT
Seven Stars Trading is definately a good place to start. You might also try Jinshi www.jin-shi.com/ he only does customs but he does good functional pieces and is quite popular for his great jian. Another place I have heard a good word about is Traditional Filipino Weapons traditionalfilipinoweapons.com/Chinese%20Dan%20Dao.html who has recently started putting out Japanese and Chinese weapons. Then there is the nontraditional Zombie Tools who makes the Mack Daddy-O zombietools.net/tools/Sadly functional Chinese weapons just is not as big a market as Japanese or European weapons so there is a lot less choices. |
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Post by junon on May 22, 2012 3:12:03 GMT
Very pretty... and cost unbelievable $$$...  Is that Chris Zhou custom swords collection or someone else or a brokerage company in Longquan? |
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Post by Opferous on May 23, 2012 6:22:12 GMT
Like junon mentioned, Huanuo does some nice stuff. I wonder whatever happened to the Rodell cutting dao for Hanwei that was in the works though. I hope that does happen eventually.
Currently in Taiwan doing some research, so hopefully we'll be doing some nice Chinese weapons soon for Longship as well [/plug]
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Post by Nox on May 25, 2012 6:52:35 GMT
Thanks for all the info guys, very much appreciated!
looks like I have alot of choices now.
I really like the look of the beile dao, how does it handle junon?
and vue that site you posted has some amazing looking swords, wish I knew chinese.
I think a rodell cutting dao would be nice, especially if it has the nice sturdy feel and the utilitarian look of the cutting Jian, but i'm happy they decided to make the cutting jian first becasue the chinese sword community really need that.
its also nice to hear that the longship armoury has more chinese inspired swords in mind for future production.
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Post by junon on May 28, 2012 4:21:25 GMT
Hi nox,
Beile Dao is good. Handling is ok for me (unfortunately I don't have other dao to compare to, so I'm not sure if it's really great handling or so so). But in my inexperience hand, it's usable and if there were zombie appocalypse, I might use choose the beile dao due to its chopping power.
If I'm being picky, I would say the bing'gu/ferrule is little bit uncomfortable at hand due to its shape (square). The corner is quite sharp so probably best to use glove during use (or get use to it - I'm used to it now and doesn't bother me - but most of my friend would comment about it when first time handling it).
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