Chinese Sword

[Gonzalo G]

Hi Iliad, thank you for sharing! Do you have measures and weight of this piece? Without photos from the back of the blade looks like a machete-style blade. I mean, a plain laminated blade of the same thickness along the whole blade. Doest it has a distal taper? How thick is at the base on the back side? I hope not being troublesome.
Regards

Gonzalo

[Iliad]

Hi Gonzalo, thanks so much for your comments. Overall length 36 and half inches (93 cm); width of back edge at the handguard is 4 mm, tapers to 1 mm at the tip.I have no way of weighing the sword and don't know what a distal is!!
You guys are so knowledgeable it astounds me!
Brian

[Emanuel]

Hello Brian, nice sword. I've been looking for some decent examples of Chinese swords, but it seems quite hard to tell the copies from the older ones.

You gave the distal taper (4mm to 1mm). This indicates that the blade thickness tapers towards the tip. Generally a good sign...copies and fakes don't bother with the distal taper as it's much easier to cut out or stamp out a sword shape out of a sheet of metal of uniform thickness.

Cheers!
Emanuel

[Gonzalo G]

Originally Posted by Iliad

Hi Gonzalo, thanks so much for your comments. Overall length 36 and half inches (93 cm); width of back edge at the handguard is 4 mm, tapers to 1 mm at the tip.I have no way of weighing the sword and don't know what a distal is!!
You guys are so knowledgeable it astounds me!
Brian

Brian, thank you very much for your information! As Manolo said, you already gave me the distal taper. Technical terms are not really a big deal, and they are very easily learnt if you are interested in the geometry of the blade.
My regards

Gonzalo