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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 0:22:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 4:28:53 GMT
Hanwei practical lines has about a 4 mil safety edge to take being banged together, the only different is the blunted edge but you have to understand that the mechanics and the physics of a sword change when they are sharpened, so a practical norman will handle differently to one that is sharpened.
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Post by randomnobody on Jun 1, 2008 4:47:36 GMT
I think the practical series has different fullers and perhaps heavier pommels to try to work out the difference in handling, but I can't recall exactly. I'm sure our friendly Hanwei rep will be along shortly to sort it all out, or just PM bpogue yourself.
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Jun 1, 2008 5:48:42 GMT
All the practical series now have triple fullers, so the blade shapes are nothing like the sharps. They are totally hardened and tempered, full tang, and peened. I have two of the old series which I have sharpened. Both are reviewed here.
On the old series the edge is about 1.8mm thick, never over about 2.2mm. But they have more historical section.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 6:11:50 GMT
I hate those triple fullers, such an unattractive and unbalanced blade, I've handled the old one and the new one and the old one was so much better and more historically accurate.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 6:32:08 GMT
Humm wierd, I like the new ones better then the old ones. The old ones were too heavy for my taste. As for historically accurate...well it weight too much...and it's a training blunt. Historical accuracy can take a flying leap in this case hehe .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 7:05:08 GMT
Not for re-enactment purposes it can't
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Jun 1, 2008 7:16:22 GMT
I dunno. I recently hung out with a theatre group here called circle of the sword (www.cots.asn.au) and was surprised at how crap their weapons are. Theywere quite appalling for what I'm used to. I would dub them all unsafe, and I'm not referring to the edges.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 7:45:32 GMT
Bren: Yeah the group I was with had hanwei mostly, a smattering of english designed ones and a manning, of all of them manning far outstripped the rest.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2008 11:11:22 GMT
thank you all very much. i just couldnt figure out why these were so much less than the normal line? its nice to know there made the same as the others. not sure if ill be getting one but , i like to know what im getting befor i order incase its nt want i was looking for. ive owned windlass and gen 2 and DSA (for western blades) now thinking of either a henwei or a CAS.
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Post by bpogue on Jun 2, 2008 14:26:48 GMT
... now thinking of either a henwei or a CAS. Well... it would be a Hanwei AND a CAS since we are CAS Hanwei now To answer some of the criticisms on the new blades being poor for reenactment and ok for training where it was the opposite for the older blade shape... there is simply no way to have a single model answer both needs. It's part of the reason we asked Tinker to make purpose built training blunts to match the medieval line of sharps. Blake
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