re: #570 prairiefire

Wow, amazing sword. Do you display them? I would be worried about some yahoo taking off the wall and playing around.

Actually, I have been fencing for many years, done kendo and taken up some Tai Chi Quan.

As to letting someone take it off the wall, this will not be on the wall, and it will not be touched by anyone who does not know what they are looking at.

A jian is a very, very effective sword and the modern T-10 steel will make it substantially more flexible, durable and edgy than its historical counterparts. We can talk about bainite and martinsite if you wish, but the bottom line is that metallurgy has figured out by science what the ancient forge masters figured out by trial and error and then surpassed it (if it is forged properly by people who know what they are doing).

Simply put, that blade could take a hand or a head or and arm without difficulty.

So in short, this gets treated the same way one would treat a gun. In some ways it is more lethal because people will not respect it as much, so only those I know well and trust will be allowed to touch it.