Chinese Bronze Sword

Wow! Way to bring back a 7-year-old thread from the dead! Seriously, I doubt Mr. Wong is still around. Many sword makers just come and go.

I tried looking earlier, before linking this thread to another in the Ancient Swords section. Couldn't find any.
(Well, none that weren't "aged," that is)

Beautiful beautiful sword!

Owch, those are really overpriced!!

Those aren't half bad, and easily more affordable. Pitu they aren't actual bronze, but eh.

Bronze swords never were particularly big. I've seen some lauded as absolutely huge at a whopping two feet long, overall. I wanna say I might have seen one or two in the 30-inch range, but can't recall. I came this close to buying a smallish piece a couple years back, was going for about $475, 12-inch blade, decent shape, from Luristan "first millenium BC" et cetera. Saved my pennies for one too many paychecks and somebody else got it.

Still, I'm wanting at least one bronze "sword" and if I can get a fancy Chinese original, then I'm going for it. Meanwhile, the repros are cool looking, but if that's all they are I'm not really that interested.

Not particularly large?
Well take a look at this monster! Its not Chinese but Danish I think.

The chinese had the long jian and the long dao. I have handled a long jian repro and its quite substantial. Would really love to have a repro long dao at some point.

The one on the bottom right is "overall total length of 111 centimeters and a 2-handed grip length of 23 centimeters." Not to scale with the ones on the left.