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Post by Opferous on Jul 20, 2012 4:04:51 GMT
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Post by willhart on Jul 20, 2012 4:12:16 GMT
Wow beautiful looking sword. May I ask how much you paid for it? Do they ave a web page? I couldn't find anything on them.
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Post by Opferous on Jul 20, 2012 5:20:13 GMT
MSRP was nearly $3000 USD, but in Taiwan, you pretty much haggle for everything, so I got it for much less. It is my understanding that they do not have a website and have exclusive agreements to only sell to certain vendors who then distribute. Here's one such authorized vendor: www.artknife.com.tw/index.html |
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Post by Taiwandeutscher on Aug 7, 2012 8:46:58 GMT
Chen Tianyang was propably the 1st to revive sword making in Taiwan. He also has a nice museum, not sure if still alive, looked unhealthy when I met him yrs. ago. His works have character, lol, his steel is good, his handywork much more sofisticated than Guo down south.
Never handled weapons of his successors, will check when having a chnce.
Thanks for the link!
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Post by Lancelot Chan on Aug 7, 2012 18:13:48 GMT
Mr. Chen had sadly passed away years ago.
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Post by Taiwandeutscher on Aug 8, 2012 0:44:14 GMT
Thanks for confirming my gut feeling!
It has been around 2000, when I had visited him.
Seems he died on Feb. 17th, 2011.
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