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Post by bluetrain on Feb 24, 2018 11:32:56 GMT
I sent an e-mail to one of the Indian manufacturers asking some question that I've now forgotten. But someone replied almost right away, asking me all sorts of questions about the company I work for (e-mail sent from my computer at work). So they answer e-mails faster than someone in my own company (from which I'm retiring next month).
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Feb 24, 2018 18:02:01 GMT
I have a Hanwei Lowlander and it doesn't sag under it's own weight. Nice sword after I fixed the typical Chinese goofs. What sort of goofs? I've been thinking about nabbing one sometime to play around with this summer. I was going to do a review showing it but my old 8 year old computer crashed taking all my before pictures with it. So there was no point to doing it with only the after the fix pictures. It wasn't anything that isn't an easy fix so I wouldn't hesitate to buy one and I'm sure they don't all come that way. The bottom of the blade at the tang was cut uneven on one side by about a 1/4 inch longer making the guard rest unevenly. A quick cut with a dremel tool with a cutting wheel fixed it. The other was the gap on the guard opening was to wide so I shimmed it up to make it fit tighter. I used the piece I cut off the blade to make the two shims. The screw on pommel made it an easy fix, in fact the sword comes unassembled. Blade, guard, grip and pommel. I watched a video review on YouTube where the guy complained about a rattle in the handle, no rattle in mine now. It's a big bad ass sword and looks great hanging on the wall between my Claymore and William Wallace Braveheart swords. It even comes with it's own wall mount bracket.
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Post by zabazagobo on Feb 24, 2018 19:42:00 GMT
What sort of goofs? I've been thinking about nabbing one sometime to play around with this summer. I was going to do a review showing it but my old 8 year old computer crashed taking all my before pictures with it. So there was no point to doing it with only the after the fix pictures. It wasn't anything that isn't an easy fix so I wouldn't hesitate to buy one and I'm sure they don't all come that way. The bottom of the blade at the tang was cut uneven on one side by about a 1/4 inch longer making the guard rest unevenly. A quick cut with a dremel tool with a cutting wheel fixed it. The other was the gap on the guard opening was to wide so I shimmed it up to make it fit tighter. I used the piece I cut off the blade to make the two shims. The screw on pommel made it an easy fix, in fact the sword comes unassembled. Blade, guard, grip and pommel. I watched a video review on YouTube where the guy complained about a rattle in the handle, no rattle in mine now. It's a big bad ass sword and looks great hanging on the wall between my Claymore and William Wallace Braveheart swords. It even comes with it's own wall mount bracket. Thanks for providing all these details, sounds like exactly what you said, the usual fitting goofs production pieces often have. I had been somewhat weary of this specific sword since watching Skallagrim's review on youtube (the rattling handle), but it probably just resulted from an inaccurate fit, like what you fixed. I encountered something similar with my antiqued bastard from Hanwei, but I've yet to disassemble it for a fix since I want to rewrap it with some better leather and/or cord. Thanks for taking the time to detail the issues, it reassured me about this particular piece. The display of the lowlander, claymore and WW all by each other sounds really bad***, I'd like to fashion a similar display at some point. Another set of questions, if you don't mind. Is your claymore the Hanwei model? If so, how perceptibly lighter does it feel in the hand compared to the lowlander? Enough to manage with a single hand if you were so inclined?
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Feb 24, 2018 21:38:35 GMT
I was going to do a review showing it but my old 8 year old computer crashed taking all my before pictures with it. So there was no point to doing it with only the after the fix pictures. It wasn't anything that isn't an easy fix so I wouldn't hesitate to buy one and I'm sure they don't all come that way. The bottom of the blade at the tang was cut uneven on one side by about a 1/4 inch longer making the guard rest unevenly. A quick cut with a dremel tool with a cutting wheel fixed it. The other was the gap on the guard opening was to wide so I shimmed it up to make it fit tighter. I used the piece I cut off the blade to make the two shims. The screw on pommel made it an easy fix, in fact the sword comes unassembled. Blade, guard, grip and pommel. I watched a video review on YouTube where the guy complained about a rattle in the handle, no rattle in mine now. It's a big bad ass sword and looks great hanging on the wall between my Claymore and William Wallace Braveheart swords. It even comes with it's own wall mount bracket. Thanks for providing all these details, sounds like exactly what you said, the usual fitting goofs production pieces often have. I had been somewhat weary of this specific sword since watching Skallagrim's review on youtube (the rattling handle), but it probably just resulted from an inaccurate fit, like what you fixed. I encountered something similar with my antiqued bastard from Hanwei, but I've yet to disassemble it for a fix since I want to rewrap it with some better leather and/or cord. Thanks for taking the time to detail the issues, it reassured me about this particular piece. The display of the lowlander, claymore and WW all by each other sounds really bad***, I'd like to fashion a similar display at some point. Another set of questions, if you don't mind. Is your claymore the Hanwei model? If so, how perceptibly lighter does it feel in the hand compared to the lowlander? Enough to manage with a single hand if you were so inclined? Yeah it's the Hanwei Claymore in antiqued version same as my Lowlander. I wouldn't say either one is ideal for one handed use. On my scale the Lowlander comes in at 7 1/4 Lbs. with a POB at about 7 1/2 inched from the guard and the Claymore at 4 3/4 Lbs. with a POB at about 6 inches from the guard. With the Claymore you will scare your enemy with the Lowlander he will S--T himself and run.
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Post by christain on Feb 24, 2018 21:57:31 GMT
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on Feb 24, 2018 22:50:23 GMT
Yeah but then they would run away laughing because they know they can easily out run you with all that weight on. Did you have any issues with yours or was I just the lucky one ?
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Post by elbrittania39 on Feb 24, 2018 23:13:32 GMT
Plate wasn't all that heavy. Main problem is the heat. They turn into portable furnaces if you wear it long enough.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Feb 24, 2018 23:32:21 GMT
Plate was heavy, but the distribution of the weight helped to keep it even. Ian Lespina of Knight Sqyre has good videos on the topic.
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Post by harrybeck on Feb 25, 2018 1:45:29 GMT
I'd like to see a good copy of the sword of mehmet II, in a more affordable package than currently.
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Post by zabazagobo on Feb 26, 2018 8:08:54 GMT
Thanks for providing all these details, sounds like exactly what you said, the usual fitting goofs production pieces often have. I had been somewhat weary of this specific sword since watching Skallagrim's review on youtube (the rattling handle), but it probably just resulted from an inaccurate fit, like what you fixed. I encountered something similar with my antiqued bastard from Hanwei, but I've yet to disassemble it for a fix since I want to rewrap it with some better leather and/or cord. Thanks for taking the time to detail the issues, it reassured me about this particular piece. The display of the lowlander, claymore and WW all by each other sounds really bad***, I'd like to fashion a similar display at some point. Another set of questions, if you don't mind. Is your claymore the Hanwei model? If so, how perceptibly lighter does it feel in the hand compared to the lowlander? Enough to manage with a single hand if you were so inclined? Yeah it's the Hanwei Claymore in antiqued version same as my Lowlander. I wouldn't say either one is ideal for one handed use. On my scale the Lowlander comes in at 7 1/4 Lbs. with a POB at about 7 1/2 inched from the guard and the Claymore at 4 3/4 Lbs. with a POB at about 6 inches from the guard. With the Claymore you will scare your enemy with the Lowlander he will S--T himself and run.Haha, that's a great way of putting it. Not to mention if you dressed up like christain or your avatar.
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Post by masterofossus on Mar 1, 2018 23:32:52 GMT
The sword used as Vlad the Impaler's Kilij, from Deadliest Warrior:
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Post by zabazagobo on Mar 2, 2018 0:58:29 GMT
The sword used as Vlad the Impaler's Kilij, from Deadliest Warrior: That was an impressive cut, I think in general the market could use more swords of middle/near east origin. Although I could of sworn Vlad the Impaler would have used a straight sword, for obvious reasons.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Mar 2, 2018 18:33:41 GMT
I'd like to see a good copy of the sword of mehmet II, in a more affordable package than currently. Good luck with that. I wonder if anyone makes a laser engraver paired with a 3d printer to both cut and inlay in a single pass.
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Post by harrybeck on Mar 2, 2018 18:50:05 GMT
there have been replicas made, just not in my price range
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Post by bluetrain on Mar 2, 2018 19:48:18 GMT
I mention in my first post in this thread that I'd love a German infantry officer's sword but that WKC didn't make them. Well, actually they do. They list the "Wuerttemberg Infantry Officer's sword," but at €450, I can't really afford it. I really can, I just don't want to spend that much money, to be truthful. But it has a carbon steel blade, with "two blood-grooves." So, if the nice folks who make the sword call it that, so can you.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Mar 2, 2018 20:18:38 GMT
I looked it up, it's tempting. I didn't know WKC makes a few carbon steel blades. Unfortunately the Bavarian sword is stainless steel. It doesn't even cost very much more than CS sabers here in Germany.
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Post by bluetrain on Mar 2, 2018 20:58:45 GMT
Most are indeed in stainless; a few are in carbon steel and fewer still have a choice, including the British Pattern 1897 infantry sword. That one is even offered in unplated steel. I have only owned one of them, which had a plain blade, meaning it was possibly a staff sergeant's sword. But the markings, I think, were that of some university. That's been a while and I don't remember the details. I do have a WKC manufactured US Army NCO sword. Beautiful hilt, flimsy blade. Never saw one in three years in the army.
I have too many temptations and weak resistance.
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Post by profkum on Mar 3, 2018 14:15:32 GMT
I love fantasy and fantasy swords. My first sword ever was Anduril - just a wall-hanger but I still love the look of it. Thus I would like to see swords Memory, Sorrow and Thorn from the same named trilogy by Tad Williams. The sword are depicted on books covers, I am not sure whether anyone has made a real ones or even artistic images of them, but they should be cool considering the background
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Post by bluetrain on Mar 4, 2018 12:04:29 GMT
To some extent, all swords are fantasy swords.
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Post by elbrittania39 on Mar 4, 2018 21:08:27 GMT
Sure, but if we define everything too broadly, words lose meaning.
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