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Post by Dave(utilityslave) on Jan 27, 2009 21:34:11 GMT
Thanks for your opinion here Jason.....very interesting. Verifies my less experienced view.
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Post by YlliwCir on Jan 27, 2009 21:45:16 GMT
I like the basic utilitarian look of these type of sword as well as the VA practicals. There's the rub for me. My VA practicals came with a proper sharp edge, why not these?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2009 0:01:47 GMT
dont va practicals get qc and touch ups stateside ? hanwei all done in dailan ......
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Post by YlliwCir on Jan 30, 2009 7:51:13 GMT
I was thinking you could get the VA practicals "tuned up", at least the first batch. I believe I got mine as they arrived, super sharp they were too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 6:25:09 GMT
Okay so I fixed the scabbard issue by using a belt sander and griding down to the wood core. Yes it is actually wood and not fiberglass. It's not a very good wood core mind you, but wood. And what the blade looks like now. I had a small chip on the tip from it getting dropped by a new person doing some cutting when he hit the stand. The sword was fine from the stand but the edges chipped from landing on rocks...edge on. So I tried to re-do the edge by hand...but the chip was big enough where this just wasn't gonna happed anytime reasonable so I reground it using a slack belt sander. Then I liked how the edge came out of just the tip, so I redid the entire edge using the slack belt sander. It took me about 15 minutes to get a proper appleseed edge. Course you have those horizantal grind marks from it. You can still see them in the picture a bit...but I really liked how the edge came out using this method. And the finish on the blade is a 300 grit finish. The whole process was about an hour and a half of work. So if I ever have to do this again, that's what I'm doing .
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Post by shadowhowler on Feb 8, 2009 7:38:36 GMT
So how does it cut now with your new edge?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 9:20:27 GMT
It cuts much better now...as long as I don't screw up. The sword design is pretty unforgiving of mis-alignments. Not as bad as a type XV...but for an XVIII, it's pretty unforgiving. But then again, I expect that from an XVIIIa with such a thin blade profile. But the edge is holding up much better. It's not rolling when the stand gets accidently knicked for instance since it's no longer that uber thin edge anymore. Even after rounding it off by hand, the edge was just too sharp to hold properly. With the whole thing re-ground to a better angle and geometery I'm much happier with it's performance.
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