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Post by plantguy90 on Aug 1, 2014 6:29:02 GMT
When it finally arrived I took it out to inspect it and... was very let down. Its listed on KOA as "battle-ready" though unsharpened. The blade is bent slightly, I am not sure what temper its been through. If you hold the sword and shake it it kind of rattles in the hilt, I don't know what the proper term for that is. Blade is a bit on the thin side, and I have to check closer again but the hollow ground does not seem particularly straight. Overall it strikes me as a heavier wushu practice sword but just a practice sword, not a "battle ready" which I took to mean "good beater quality." Maybe if I was a wushu practitioner I may have liked it better, I don't know.
I may inspect it again but its probably going to get returned to KOA for something else, probably the TFW Sansibar 1.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Aug 1, 2014 7:55:03 GMT
It is made as a practice sword. KoA's "battle ready" means the tang is not too puny, grip is not too weakly attached, and the blade has reasonable heat treatment, which isn't enough to make the sword a beater, let alone a good tough beater. I've not had a Swallow Sword in hand, but it looks like a successor to Hanwei's Hsu jian. I like the 2H Hsu jian, but it's no beater. I don't think it'd be a great cutter when sharpened - narrow blade and hollow-ground with a high ridge. But a nice light thrusting sword. Plenty of historical swords (usually one-handed) with blades of similar weight and size, and they don't tend to be great cutters, either. Some nice two-handers: www.enlightenmentswords.com/prod ... antis.html www.enlightenmentswords.com/prod ... ingyu.html If you change your mind and decide to keep it, remove the grip to see what rattles. Can just be some random bit of debris in the hilt, bouncing around. Take it out, and it's fixed. But if it's something broken off rattling around in there, you want to know. |
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Post by plantguy90 on Aug 2, 2014 8:12:47 GMT
Wow, those swords look really nice, I'm almost afraid to ask what they go for.
As for the noise in the Swallow Sword, it doesn't feel like a loose crumb as much as it feels like tang movement in the grip. No way this one is staying here.
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