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Old August 20th, 2010 #71
ray bateson
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Default Edged Weapons - Cutting vs. Thrusting

On the farthest edge of the cutting side of this question is the chinese dadao. What's essentially a sword-shaped viking axe. A mass-market true reproduction has never existed, actually, they've never existed at any price. Only D. Guertin used to make some, but closed up like eight years ago. ... I've owned the earlier model hanwei dadao and found it to be a well-tempered and serviceable blade, great geometry and taper, but a bit too thin for combat or really hard shocks; nothing so far that could be called a true reproduction. However, they just updated the design. They just doubled the blade thickness. Doubled it. And assuming the use of distal taper and heat-treatment is kept consistent (hanwei QC is easily 10x what it was four years ago), it'd not be speaking too soon to say the day has finally come. Being a firm proponent of the cut, hell yes, I'm buying one.

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