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Imago 
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 Topic: Sword Blue YuePosted: 10/06/2011 at 4:31am |
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Anyone willing to share his/her impressions of this interesting blade?
 Looks like limba - spruce - ayous - thin carbon - ayous - thin carbon - ayous - spruce - limba  Edited by Imago - 10/06/2011 at 6:28am |
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Antiq
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Posted: 10/06/2011 at 11:19am |
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This blade is not as popular as his brother.. Yokohama Yue : )
According to its website, it seems that the 2 thin layer is not carbon but thin wood ply. It never mention what kind of wood used : (
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mhnh007
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Posted: 10/06/2011 at 11:45am |
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I have my eyes on this one too. Can't believe that the 2 carbon plies are actually wood, but I trust Antiq's source on this. I still like the limba top plies, and it looks thick and solid enough to be a good hitting blade.
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Imago
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Posted: 10/06/2011 at 11:50am |
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Yokohama Yue has the structure of the HiTec version of HK, 5+2, while Lan Yue looks like an enforced early Clipper.
Oh, here is the link Edited by Imago - 10/06/2011 at 11:52am |
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Posted: 10/06/2011 at 12:10pm |
The website says "LAYER:7+2". To my understanding the "+2" implies an artificial material. |
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Imago
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Posted: 10/12/2011 at 4:51pm |
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They really do not seem to be carbon, color is blue, could be arylate or some composite dust. The blade is very fast, 6.8 mm. Head is normal for SH but small for cpen as compared to the DHS standard cpen head. Design and finish are impeccable, wings are slightly sanded. Beauty in itself, it is as though made for collectors - you don't want to put rubbers on it.
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dingyibvs
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Posted: 10/12/2011 at 5:18pm |
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It's not carbon, it's some sort of specially treated wood, a Sword proprietary technology. It's supposed to give increased feeling and dwell time to relatively thicker traditional 7-ply wood blades.
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Antiq
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Posted: 10/12/2011 at 7:21pm |
They claimed to be 100% wood material that is being used.
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Posted: 10/12/2011 at 7:44pm |
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Sword makes some pretty interesting blades, I was pretty interested in their Blue Virtue(on taobao it says Blue Buffalo for some strange reason, even though the words Blue Virtue is written on the blade) before. It has 1:2 mix of carbon/kevlar vertically and 1:1 mix of carbon/kevlar horizontally in each of its two composite layers. Its wood distribution is a bit unconventional as well, with a relatively thin center ply. Sword is kind of a high class sort of brand in China, and is known for their innovative designs. Too bad most EJ's who buy Chinese blades are only looking for clones of Eurojap products.
I myself am guilty of this...as my latest purchase is a blade modeled after the Viscaria/TBS, but as a relative newcomer to the game, I really do have no idea what blade suits my game. Since I model my game after a mixture of ZJK/MLong, I figured I should just get something similar to what they have, except cheaper. If I really start EJ'ing, Sword blades would be what I wanna play around with the most, they just have so dang many interesting concepts!
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Blade: Hurricane Long 5 (968) FL
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Antiq
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Posted: 10/12/2011 at 8:08pm |
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Yes, they do have many interesting blades. But their info in english is very limited, thus less publicity and less well known outside china.
Btw, Blue Virtue has a brother call Blue Glamour. BV composite layer is made out of 1 carbon and 2 kelvar weave together. Whereas BG uses 2 carbon and 1 kelvar. Everything else is similiar. So BG feels harder and faster.
They have other innovative technology.. such as the following.. (visible differences) Not sure what are some of their purpose.
- cutting a glove at the handle (near neck) to reduce vibration.
- the whole handle is a separate piece of wood and joint to the blade face. Still a very solid blade.
- uses even ply of wood.
- uses carbon in the centre ply, and odd plys of carbon.
- laying of fiber thread vertically,
- putting wood pins across the blade centre.
- boring a hole in the centre ply and replace it with other harder wood.
In one of the TT mag, a test was performed on some of their blades... by firing a bullet through the wood face.. I can try to post some picture if you guys are interested. Can remember what they are trying to proof.. Will look out for the picture and post in a new thread.
Sorry for off topic :) Edited by Antiq - 10/12/2011 at 8:11pm |
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Imago
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Posted: 10/13/2011 at 4:36am |
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I am starting to love Sword too.
BTW, the serial number of my cpen says: SH1002.1011 Does SH stand for ShakeHand? Which will explain the shape of the head. Edited by Imago - 10/13/2011 at 4:38am |
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Posted: 10/13/2011 at 5:05am |
I don't think so, it's just a model number and I don't know how they come up with that. Same model always have the same beginning(i.e. SH and cpen Blue Yue will all have SH1002). BTW, have you guys tried Aliexpress? How reliable is that site? Seems to have some pretty good prices, free shipping on a lot of them too. They have some sword blades, and I also found some suspiciously cheap TBS blades...although the other stuff are reasonably priced.
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Blade: Hurricane Long 5 (968) FL
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Posted: 09/18/2012 at 8:21am |
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Im sorry to bring this topic up again, but since then has anyone had a play of this beautiful looking blade? The moment my eyes were set on it, I would not stop looking at it!!
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