转贴美国刀友mok.对于汉威练南亚劈砍刀的品鉴

汉威

原文地址： http://forum.sword-buyers-guide.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4033

I recently ordered the Hanwei Banshee from Lamnia.fi, and received it last Friday; the delivery was fairly prompt, considering it wasn't in stock and they had to order it overseas.

So far, I've only encountered a few minor issues. No regrets about the purchase.Shootermike's review covers all the basics and a good way beyond, and I'm plain lazy, so I'll just concentrate on stuff I've noticed that he didn't mention.






This is a very good-looking little sword in a business-like, no-nonsense sort of way. While it's a clearly modern design, its origins in the South-East Asian dha are readily apparent.

I didn't think much of the pleather carrying sling that came with it - it's just a cheap after-thought, a nice little bonus, adequate until you can round up something better but no more - so I decided to make a carry system of my own. Traditionally dha are carried on a simple rope sling tied around the scabbard... but this is not a traditional dha, it's a rather more modern, "tactical" design. What would fit that... hmm... rope... tactical... tactical rope... oh, of course! PARACORD!


And I already had some of that lying around. Perfect! I was loathe to cut it, so I used the whole length I had, some twenty, maybe thirty feet. It looks good on the Banshee, is comfortable to carry, and best of all, if in the middle of zombie apocalypse I should happen to need a length of strong cord or line, I've got some right there!




The metal furniture on the sword and scabbard are all finished with some kind of matte grey powder coating. It's neat and has a nice texture to it, but it had already rubbed off in places. No biggie, it just makes the whole thing look that much more rugged and tuff, but I thought it worth a mention.




That's the metal throat. There's something wrong with it. Can you guess what? No? Well, let's have a closer look.


There, you see it now?


Just in case you're feeling slow today, I'll spell it out: IT CAME OFF. Apparently someone skimped on the glue. Oh well, it's nothing I can't easily fix with a dollop of epoxy. In the meanwhile, it allows us to view the scabbard's wooden core.



A little rough, but nothing really unexpected. It's out of sight, anyway. But pay attention to the edge of the black paint covering most of the scabbard.


It's over a millimeter thick. Yeah, I'll believe it's resistant to bumps and scratches! The thing is basically armored. Nice to know, and good on Hanwei! Also, it actually looks really neat on the surface, with an interesting splatter texture.


All in all, I LIKE this little beast. The blade is nowhere near as sharp as it could be, but it can still cut. Some quality time with my stones and hones and it'll be just perfect. I took the Banshee home to the backwoods with me over the weekend, and put it through all kinds of mild abuse like demolishing the cardboard boxes it came in, cutting brush and saplings, stabbing at logs and chopping firewood. It performed as well as the semi-sharp edge allowed - better than I had expected, in fact - and is none the worse for wear, with nothing to show for it that didn't come off with an oily rag. I didn't even manage to bend the tip with all the thrusting at big pieces of dead wood, and it did some respectable work on them.

It handles well in one hand. Two hands will totally overpower it if you grip it like a katana, hands wide apart, but if you shorten your grip a little you can fine tune the balance and make far more powerful cuts than you'd expect from something this compact. The 11-inch grip is oval near the guard and becomes round about halfway toward the pommel, but edge alignment didn't really seem like much of an issue to me. Many dha have entirely round handles anyway, and they've been used for centuries; I'd think they'd have changed it at some point along the way if it didn't work out somehow.

The Banshee now hangs out on the edge of my bookcase until I can find it a more permanent lodgings. I think I've made a wonderful new friend. Thank you, Shootermike and SBG in general, for introducing us!

汉威

We had daylight today again! Yay! So, more photos.


I love the overall lines of this thing. The blade shape is a traditional dha design, thick-spined, elegantly curved, growing wider from the guard until it curves in to the point, very much like a Chinese ox-tail saber. The bevels actually become slightly more pronouncedly convex around the widest point, putting some more reinforcing meat behind the edge right where it's needed the most.

If there's one thing I have any worries about, it's the retention spring.


And that only worries me because it looks like it'd be tricky to clean if dirt - dust, oil, blood, brains, undead pus, whatever - got under there. Otherwise, it's a very simple design, virtually foolproof, with the spring, catch and button all combined into one single moving part. Unless the steel itself fails or the grip and guard fall to pieces around it, it's gonna hold fast. (To the scabbard throat. Which already came off the scabbard. But I'm 99% sure I simply got a lemon in that regard, and in any case it's easily fixed.)

Speaking of the grip, it's apparently attached by a slightly overflowing amount of glue.


And then by two rivets through the tang.


And then by peening the tang over the pommel cap.


Now that is what I call secure!

The leather wrap is somewhat softer than I expected. It feels very comfortable and has a nice amount of traction - grippy enough to feel safe in the hand, but not sticky enough to get in the way of handling. It's also very neat and evenly done, and like the whole grip is attached with extreme prejudice, first by glueing it to the grip, then by leaving the ends clamped under the guard and pommel cap, and then by the two rivets pinning it to the grip (and the tang).

Hanwei were apparently very, very serious about this sword staying in one piece no matter what. I can appreciate that.

I'd post more full views, but it's hard to get a good photo of the whole sword in here, what with my only decent light source being daylight from the one window. And when I say "daylight", what I mean is this.

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