Dao for opinions please

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Atlantia

LOL! Do you not use that expression over there?
Yeah, it means pleased, happy with. God only knows what the origin is?

It seems to have been shortened over the years as people used to say 'chuffed to bits' to expresses happiness!

One of my favorites! (another being "manky/mankie" - pronounced like "hanky" - which as near as I can tell means nasty and/or stinky). No, we have hour own random terms over here, like "psyched" and "pumped."

PS: no idea about the dao, but the others' comments sound convincing. I only note that the fuller appears routed out, as you can see the wobble from the rotating bit.

[Atlantia]

Yeah, Manky is a class expression!
As you say, it means a bit nasty, can be applied to something smelly and dirty or more generally to something tatty and in general disrepair!
LOL, at the moment my Dao is a bit 'manky'!

Another fav of mine is 'Rank' meaning slightly foul or disgusting.
It always made me smile as I worked for the Rank Organisation for 7 years!

Originally Posted by Mark

One of my favorites! (another being "manky/mankie" - pronounced like "hanky" - which as near as I can tell means nasty and/or stinky). No, we have hour own random terms over here, like "psyched" and "pumped."

PS: no idea about the dao, but the others' comments sound convincing. I only note that the fuller appears routed out, as you can see the wobble from the rotating bit.

[Klas Larsson]

As a last thought on the Boxer idea, I wonder if the handle bindings are boxer additions to a reused earlier Imperial army sword?

This dao wrap would get you in trouble in an line up inspection in the army I think...

Looking for cord try shops who have sewing machines and other stuff for sewing, we have found some nice cord there, and both blue and green, and a nice waxed brown cord, that I like, very steady. I believe about 2-3 mm is a bit of standard for dao wrapping.

[Klas Larsson]

Here in the archived forums of SFI you can find loads of information on wrapping, and also a video on wrapping by friend of mine, William Reinman that is very instructional. He has developed his method since but this works well.

here http://forums.swordforum.com/showthr...threadid=47591

and more here
http://forums.swordforum.com/showthr...868#post742868

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by Klas Larsson

Here in the archived forums of SFI you can find loads of information on wrapping, and also a video on wrapping by friend of mine, William Reinman that is very instructional. He has developed his method since but this works well.

here http://forums.swordforum.com/showthr...threadid=47591

and more here
http://forums.swordforum.com/showthr...868#post742868

Klas You are an absolute HERO!
You've just answered every question I had.
Thankyou so much for all your help.

[Klas Larsson]

No, no, Dont thank me. It's my friend William Reinman, who has gone to great lengths to investigate traditional wrapping, I am just the messenger

He also learned polishing and has become good at it, so now he does renovating of Chinese swords on commission.

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by Klas Larsson

No, no, Dont thank me. It's my friend William Reinman, who has gone to great lengths to investigate traditional wrapping, I am just the messenger

He also learned polishing and has become good at it, so now he does renovating of Chinese swords on commission.

Lol, in this case you the hero as I couldn't even find the relevant threads over at the other site, even started the thread over there to enlist help. But you searched them out for me! YAY!

I've added pictures of the small edge cracks over there.... Should do it here to so you'll see one or the other.
So,

heres the small cracks, they are all towards the back end of the blade, christ only knows how they got there as they don't correspond to kinks or bends. They don't seem to be 'dangerous'...
Thoughts?