Impressions of the LK Chen Dragon Sparrow Hidden Hilt Dao, featuring
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
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The Dragon Sparrow Hidden Hilt Dao is one of LK Chen's many Chinese sword designs based on historic original(s). It retails for somewhere around $360, depending on exactly where you get it. In this video I give my thoughts on this beautiful sword, and joining me is @dlatrexswords to provide some historical context!
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00:00 Intro and initial Thoughts
04:33 History with Dlatrex
13:44 Handling, cutting, final thoughts
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Thanks much for having me on Alientude! Great overview of a cool dao.
Yeah the resheathing can be a bit tricky, and it can help to remember that the face of the dragon sparrow points towards the blade edge, and just like a Tachi or most cavalry sabre, it was worn edge down….so spot those suspension points! :)
Very sneaky sword…
Happy to feature you! Looking forward to future collabs.
Thank you for the video! I did appreciate the historical context as well!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I would love to add an LK Chen or three to my collection. I've been oddly curious about this one. Thanks for the review.
They've got a lot of really compelling offerings!
Was up? Remember me? Sell sword arts kept deleting my replies to you. I just wanted to continue our discussion. If you're at all interested?
Thanks for the video and the response to my email regarding budget swords!
Wow, thanks! Hope you end up with a sword you love!
Andy is the man 🤘 this is just conjecture on my part but I would imagine that a pronounced Saber grip would work well this sword. Thumb the the grip and hold close to the ring. That would keep your hand away from the blade give you a little more reach and you wouldn't be as worried about slipping off.
Good video kyle my man. Cool sword 🤘💀 love lk Chen stuff
I might give that a try!
@@alientude Andy gave me the idea! When he compared this sword to a shashka. I was like "oh yeah maybe they were wielded similarly too?" Makes sense to me if you grab closers to the pommel when you draw then you probably wouldn't have time to choke up on grip. You would probably want to deploy it as fast as possible so Saber grip makes sense given the context Andy provided. Let's us know if you try, how it works out. 🤘💀
@@sinisterswordsman25I do wonder, if that’s the correct way of holding it, and you’re not suponed to grab the upper portion of the handle, why did they put such a long hidden handle on it, instead of just getting more blade? Perhaps to give the user the possibility of using two hands if needed?
@@mcwiwi5915 maybe, you could use two hands. If the hilt is long enough thats always an option. But don't think that was the idea. It's more likely to be a dedicated one hander. I don't know if you saw one of skallagrims recent videos where he points out that just because you can get to hands on a hilt doesn't mean you should I thought it was interesting. Anyway, hard to say for sure, I don't have one of these swords. So I'm just making an educated guess, based on the historical context and my intuition. The wielding methods kyle tried out where effective. He just said he was not super confident with the sword using it that way. So I figured I would suggest Saber grip since he didn't try that yet.
@@sinisterswordsman25 You make a good point, I agree with you. With such an ancient design and no texts explaining the intended use, only way to know for sure is experimentation, I suposse.
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Swords are awesome weapons, but have you ever considered reviewing different weapons like a flail or the morning star?
I'm not against it. I have the Hungarian axe from Arms & Armor that I'll review at some point.
Great review and I appreciate the history of the sword type.
Thanks!