Cutting tatami with the Crossbowmen's Dao from LK Chen Swords

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Жыл бұрын

In this video, I cut a few tatami mats with a Crossbowmen's Dao that was sent to me by LK Chen for testing and review. This dao is a powerful cutter that handles very well, which was clearly inspired by large Japanese katana that were encountered by Chinese soldiers during the Ming dynasty.
Here is a link to the Crossbowmen's Dao on the LK Chen website: lkchensword.com/crossbowmenss...

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@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын

Id love to review this with my crossbows

@dlatrexswords Жыл бұрын

I’ve been hoping to pick this particular dao up for some time! Glad you like it and great showcase as always Phil.

@KF1 Жыл бұрын

Had to do a double take after reading the weight at the end. Nicely done, made it seem much lighter. Nice overall look to this one

@thescholar-general5975 Жыл бұрын

I have always thought that this weapon looked very interesting! Do you find that this sword behaves like a longsword given the similar length and proportions?

@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын

Agreed love to use it

@user-jd4si5er1c 6 ай бұрын

没错的朋友，这种长刀在中国也可以被叫做双手剑。

@serpentforge Жыл бұрын

It slices so easily, sick!!

@TheDarKris Жыл бұрын

I was just looking for a vid on this sword! Awesome!

@metingurbuz750 7 ай бұрын

@Phil.Martin thanks for the review. Is this peened pommel?

@YAOZII Жыл бұрын

I know it’s a dao, but Gotta say that man this is pretty much a katana

@jiokl7g9t6 10 ай бұрын

The kanji for katana and dao are literally the same - its the same word. This dao was historically a scaled up and localised katana.

@jakewolf079 2 ай бұрын

It was ming version of katana, literally a copy, and in some ways better

@ambulocetusnatans Жыл бұрын

Oh, I like this one. I've been saying that I wish he made a Katana, and this is probably as close as we are going to get.

@Syed________6686 10 ай бұрын

This sword is the ancestor of the Katana

@lalli8152 8 ай бұрын

@@Syed________6686 this sword isnt. This one is actually directly copied after the katana. It went in kinda interesting way that earlier period japanese apparently copied chinese blades, then later chinese the japanese ones. This one is from later period when they faced against japanese, and made their own blades similar to katana, and odachi. They even imported thousands of japanese blades, and started manufacturing similar ones, but slightly changed the design, and manufacturing ways to fit the chinese