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Posts: 228 Location: Davis Monthan AFB, AZ

Thu 05 Feb, 2004 5:43 am

Help with Good Sources for Chinese Swords

I was wondering if anyone knew of any good makers of Chinese swords, both dao and jian. I know of Liveblade.com, but their selection is rather limited; and I know of the offerings by Hanwei, but I'm looking for quality on par with Albion and Arms and Armor, within the price range of the Albion Next Gens (if that's possible). I've seen the daos done by Vince Evans, which are beautiful, but I'm guessing his prices are well above the Albion Next Gens. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

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Douglas Peters

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Posts: 25 Location: Baton Rouge,LA

Thu 05 Feb, 2004 6:52 am

I've seen http://www.dguertin.com/ mentioned over at SFI, and I think the swordsmith (as D.A. Guertin I guess) hangs out over there. Never handled his swords personally, but I'm sure they're probably high quality. Only other company I can think of is cold steel, but yeah I doubt cold steel is on par with Albion.

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Angus Trim

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Posts: 870 Location: Seattle area

Thu 05 Feb, 2004 8:19 am

Re: Help with Good Sources for Chinese Swords

Robert Zamoida wrote:

I probably shouldn't respond at all to this Rob..... But over on SFI's Chinese Swordsmanship forum I started a post trying to start a discussion on Chinese Swordsmanship. Instead I wound up with two requests for Dawg made gims on that thread, and another one via PM.

After Scott Rodell's San Francisco seminar in 2001, Scott and I discussed my using one of the gims he had brought, as a model for a gim. It was one I could do the hilt pieces entirely with the tools I have here at the shop..... but it wasn't one of the "classic" types..... Within a month or so, it was all forgotten because of a rather large distraction {swordmakers conflict}, and I really hadn't thought about it again until that thread......

I need to look over my schedule and see if I can squeak in something like a gim {means shoving sabers even further out *g*}, need to talk to Scott again, etc.......

We'll see........

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Robert Zamoida

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Posts: 228 Location: Davis Monthan AFB, AZ

Thu 05 Feb, 2004 8:42 am

:eek: :eek: OOOOOO! :eek: :eek:
ATrim jians? That I would love to see! If you do make one Gus, could you send it to me as soon as you can, since I'm probably going to need it to beat off all the saber fans angry about they delay! :p :lol:

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Justin Gifford

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Posts: 12 Location: Florida

Fri 06 Feb, 2004 12:38 pm

I'm just waitin' for the kabbage kutters! :cool:

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