Here's another dated exhibit - it's a modern maker but still worthy of the Arms & Armor Museum Exhibits thread, as well as the Longquan (Dragon Well Forge) thread
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Here's another dated exhibit - it's a modern maker but still worthy of the Arms & Armor Museum Exhibits thread, as well as the Longquan (Dragon Well Forge) thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq9LuqKr-sw
I'm merging the Longquan Jian thread with the Dragon Well Forge thread and re-titling it.
On the front end of CMA, it's almost always average to low quality. But that's the nature of CMA research. You got to dig into those back rooms for the good stuff. Most people get put off because...
Anyone who's been travelling in China realizes that it's changing at an incredibly rapid rate. My boss went to Dragon Well around '92 and things were a lot different then. China was still on the...
I've never been there personally, but my boss, Thomas Oh, has been. He went years ago, in fact, we were one of the first American companies to go it. At that time, it was only accesible by a...
Hanwei is a singular forge, based in Dalien, PRC, under the direction of Paul Chen from Taiwan. I have yet to see any Hanwei knockoffs, but it wouldn't surprise me if they exist.
Actually there are several independant competing forges surrounding Dragon Well. In addition, there are several fake forges - forged forges if you will. These are makers that are not from Dragon...
It used to be a very difficult journey. I haven't been there myself, but my boss went years ago and said it took hours of driving up sketchy mountain roads. It might be different now, though. ...
We have a piece on dragon well that I think you'll find very informative. It'll be in our Jan/Feb 2005, available at the end of Nov 2004. :cool: