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Post by karasunoir on May 20, 2021 22:22:30 GMT
Evening humans, made another review Have a nice day!
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Post by vidar on May 21, 2021 19:17:23 GMT
Thank you for posting the review. I would generally say that it’s very well done. You give a lot of relevant information, the filming is quite good, the editing as well. Congratulations!
The sword on the other hand is much less impressive. It indeed looks like it’s not very well assembled, and the design is rather ridiculous: the fake hamon, the writing on the blade. If they would have omitted this and spent more effort on the handle construction, the sword would have been far superior.
It’s good to see some reviews on this brand. These swords are indeed quite common in Europe, but you cannot find much information. Your review confirms to me that this is a brand for amateurs or collectors whose knowledge about Japanese swords is limited to the Wikipedia article about katana. This sword is one good example of that. Other fine examples are their more premium line of Kobuse swords. Instead of in the first place making a good blade geometry and quality fittings, they waste money and effort on lamination… furthermore many people don’t even realise that Kobuse lamination was a shortcut to mass produce swords in the Sengoku period, with inferior quality to earlier Koto swords…
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Post by Dandelion on May 22, 2021 8:04:15 GMT
Thank you for posting the review. I would generally say that it’s very well done. You give a lot of relevant information, the filming is quite good, the editing as well. Congratulations! The sword on the other hand is much less impressive. It indeed looks like it’s not very well assembled, and the design is rather ridiculous: the fake hamon, the writing on the blade. If they would have omitted this and spent more effort on the handle construction, the sword would have been far superior. It’s good to see some reviews on this brand. These swords are indeed quite common in Europe, but you cannot find much information. Your review confirms to me that this is a brand for amateurs or collectors whose knowledge about Japanese swords is limited to the Wikipedia article about katana. This sword is one good example of that. Other fine examples are their more premium line of Kobuse swords. Instead of in the first place making a good blade geometry and quality fittings, they waste money and effort on lamination… furthermore many people don’t even realise that Kobuse lamination was a shortcut to mass produce swords in the Sengoku period, with inferior quality to earlier Koto swords… Yeah, John Lee stuff is very unimpressive when you compare it to Huawei or even Hanbon or JKoo level. We had the Tenkai one, and some things were OK, some very NOT; especially for the price level over 700 Euro here!
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Post by karasunoir on May 22, 2021 10:53:11 GMT
Thank you for posting the review. I would generally say that it’s very well done. You give a lot of relevant information, the filming is quite good, the editing as well. Congratulations! The sword on the other hand is much less impressive. It indeed looks like it’s not very well assembled, and the design is rather ridiculous: the fake hamon, the writing on the blade. If they would have omitted this and spent more effort on the handle construction, the sword would have been far superior. It’s good to see some reviews on this brand. These swords are indeed quite common in Europe, but you cannot find much information. Your review confirms to me that this is a brand for amateurs or collectors whose knowledge about Japanese swords is limited to the Wikipedia article about katana. This sword is one good example of that. Other fine examples are their more premium line of Kobuse swords. Instead of in the first place making a good blade geometry and quality fittings, they waste money and effort on lamination… furthermore many people don’t even realise that Kobuse lamination was a shortcut to mass produce swords in the Sengoku period, with inferior quality to earlier Koto swords… Thanks for the kind words! Its pretty bad jeh... I doubt they have anything of worth to serious collectors or practitioners. I have a wakizashi from them aswell that was decent for 100 euro, but you could probably get something of similar quality for 50. Seams like they want to appeal to people with little knowledge, by throwing japanese words at them, and hoping they wont google
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on May 22, 2021 12:14:55 GMT
There is not many information about the "John Lee" brand available in German stores, dunno if outside Germany too. Looks like a brand for imported Longquan swords, usually cheaper low end stuff. It seems to be always problematic to buy more expensive swords from there.
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Post by karasunoir on May 22, 2021 15:52:51 GMT
There is not many information about the "John Lee" brand available in German stores, dunno if outside Germany too. Looks like a brand for imported Longquan swords, usually cheaper low end stuff. It seems to be always problematic to buy more expensive swords from there. Yes, seams like anything over 100 euro is not worth it...
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Post by plasikaris on Jun 1, 2021 13:31:20 GMT
How about john lee practical katana 1095 that costs about 200-300$ anyone has any idea about this sword? It seems good quality for its price.
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Post by karasunoir on Jun 1, 2021 21:49:38 GMT
How about john lee practical katana 1095 that costs about 200-300$ anyone has any idea about this sword? It seems good quality for its price. I have only found videoes of some people slaming it into things, but no serious reviews. Would be cool to test out, i have thought about it several times. However, to be honest, for 200-300, you can get warrious dragon king katana, an hanwei practical, or lots of options on stuff like swords of northshire and jkoo, and i am pretty sure those are better options. Some of john lee have been ok, from experience, but never eye opening.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 2, 2021 11:08:40 GMT
In Germany a 200 - 300 $ sword at KoA costs 300 - 500 € in our stores. So the John Lee stuff is interesting. But there are very few reviews.
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Post by Dandelion on Jun 4, 2021 6:04:17 GMT
How about john lee practical katana 1095 that costs about 200-300$ anyone has any idea about this sword? It seems good quality for its price. I have only found videoes of some people slaming it into things, but no serious reviews. Would be cool to test out, i have thought about it several times. However, to be honest, for 200-300, you can get warrious dragon king katana, an hanwei practical, or lots of options on stuff like swords of northshire and jkoo, and i am pretty sure those are better options. Some of john lee have been ok, from experience, but never eye opening. Unfortunately Dragon King swords start at 450 Euro around or so here in Germany... so if you dont do the chinatana dive into the depths of Ebay or Aliexpress and accept to wait several weeks plus 20% import tax and customs fees; well there is not so much room considering cheap katana.
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Post by karasunoir on Jun 4, 2021 12:21:12 GMT
I have only found videoes of some people slaming it into things, but no serious reviews. Would be cool to test out, i have thought about it several times. However, to be honest, for 200-300, you can get warrious dragon king katana, an hanwei practical, or lots of options on stuff like swords of northshire and jkoo, and i am pretty sure those are better options. Some of john lee have been ok, from experience, but never eye opening. Unfortunately Dragon King swords start at 450 Euro around or so here in Germany... so if you dont do the chinatana dive into the depths of Ebay or Aliexpress and accept to wait several weeks plus 20% import tax and customs fees; well there is not so much room considering cheap katana. I see your pain, euro marked is realy limited compared to american for example. Sucks...
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