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Anders Lindkvist
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Lloyd Clark
Location: Beaver Dam, WI Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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Looks like a "knock-off" to me.
The Hanwei model has a much more defined leather wrap on the hilt and what appears to be three brass rivets each at the pommel and the guard - the other has only two and does not seem to have as nice a wrap. Also, while it may just be the photos, the details on the Hanwei seem "sharper" and cleaner.
Just my 2 pence.
Cheers,
Lloyd Clark
2000 World Jousting Champion
2004 World Jousting Bronze Medalist
Swordmaster
Super Proud Husband and Father!
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Steve Grisetti
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Both cheap and copy. Pictures can be very deceiving. Note there is no description of the blade material, and precious little other description.
The same website has a section on "functional swords", with a number of MRL pieces, and also some Knights Edge stuff, and none of those prices are especially cheap for those pieces.
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Sam Barris
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It's a copy. The Hanwei version has a damascus pattern visible in the fuller and the leather on the hilt is braided. I can't see either of those features on the picture. The Godfred is actually a decent sword. I bought one four or five years ago. It's still one of my favorities. The copy is also in the catagory of "decorator swords". That's always a warning to the wary.
Pax,
Sam Barris
"Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." —Thucydides
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