Where to Find/get Jian fittings,hilts?

Hi Nox.
There is this guy doing hand carved fittings, wonderful work but rather pricy, do Youtube: nine dragon jian fittings.
The market for Chinese swords is very small compared to katana so the forges are reluctant to invest in lines of fittings.
What I do is two things: when I order a jian even when the jian in question is 100% fitting wise I try to order an extra set from a different jian. Sometimes they allow this.
What also works, for me that is, is to customise the fittings. Soldering parts to the jian guards when they are of good quality bronze is really easy even when you want something like a silver plague or somesuch on the plain guard. Bronze is easy to plate be it with silver or nickel, just do youtube: brushplating. You can drill small holes to make your version of openwork or do inlay with rhinestones or what have you. By the way, most traditional jian had plane fittings. The forges exploit what they know to be the Western expectation of what a Chinese fitting should look like, what with all the dragons, Phoo dogs, flowers and all. Only the very upper class had more elaborate fittings and were sometimes looked upon as gaudy and not what a gentleman should wear. Do the Youtube Nine dragon thing, this man is amazing.

Yes, Charles Wu. He's the man to go to. I saw his tachi fittings in steel. They were plain scary,perfect. I hope there are more people like him out there. He keeps the art alive!

You could try to contact Zhi Forge. They are nice people and have good English. Or contact Less4More. They sell Jian in the wall hanger class, fitted with zinc-alloy accoutrement's at a very low price. Point is, most production jian and therefore their scabbards are somewhat the same in length. The tricky part is the scabbard mouth. In any replacement scabbard this will need some filing with needle files or gluing of small veneer strips to get the fit just right. Why not contact Zhi Forge and if they are willing, send them the habaki of your sword. On the other hand a cracked scabbard can be repaired with acid free wood glue. Take the throat piece of, remove all the loose little bits of wood, carefully open up the crack, clean the crack with acetone, brush a fair amount of glue in the crack with a very small brush, close the crack, clean off all surplus glue inside and out, than tape the throat to keep the crack shut, look at the inside again, remove glue( use a small slightly wet brush for this) and forget the whole thing for 24 hours. In the meantime clean out the inside of the throat piece of this rubbery goo the Chinese tend to use. When the glue is dry, sand or scrape off very carefully any glue on the outside of the scabbard, refit the clean throat piece and look to see whether the brass can touch the blade. If so, take the opening back a little with needle files, clean, refit and when done glue the throat piece back again with some rubber cement glue. All in all you can do this in an hour. Sending whoever your habaki is risky, if it is lost you have to fit a habaki on the blade and that will be much more difficult. I hope this post will be of service to you, cheers.