Description: These Chinese Straight- Swords are designed for professional competitions and collectors, masters. This Jian is called Peony Jian!
Blade: The blade is diamond shaped made of hand-forged damascus steel with a finely polished finish. It has a full-tang making it strong and sturdy. The stiffness of the blade is moderate. The sword blade has live sharp edge. The blade is hand-forged patten folded steel(mixed with super steel and Iron ore), and the blade is made by the traditional way of making swords in longquan(thoroughly tempered, well-seasoned, much-steeled, go through fire and water) that has been hand folded at least 10 times so the blade is very hard and nice suitable for combat usage and cutting. It is full-tang and made specifically for the fittings used, making a tight and sturdy bond. The blade is sharpened, if you want it blunt, leave us a message!
Scabbard and fittings: The scabbard and handle are made from aged ebony, convered by Genuine stingray skin. The fittings on both the sword and scabbard are made from hand-made casted solid brass not cheap sliced brass and then hollow carving-much time and energy spent. The fittings are made in the design of peony, very nice. Please note that the tassel provided is different from the one pictured; the actual tassel is black in color, with green beads and a white jade stone.
Specification: The whole length is 100cm, the length of blade is 78cm, and 22cm handle length, the width of blade is 3.6cm, the thickness of blade is 0.9cm, the overall weight without scabbard is 1.2kg, the whole weight is 2kg.
It comes with a free set of sword stand, collection certificate, gift box and etc.