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<blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 356236" data-attributes="member: 354">I've a number of Chen peices, several of which have seen a fair amount of mock combat in one form or another, and have had no breakages. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I suspect it's the exception, not the norm. Like someone else said, you do get what you pay for, but you still get a pretty good blade for a fair bit less. And again like someone else said, paul chen is ALWAYS improving... For example, I think their &quot;low end&quot; katana (The Practical Katana) has gone through something like 4 or 5 revisions since the first model was put out, whenever someone found a weakness they fixed it. They used to use a disc of cut bulletproof plastic for the tsuba, for example, instead of iron or steel... in concept it's a very nice idea, it lightens the load a bit, and you would think that bulletproof plastic would suffice... but there were problems with it, so they went to metal tsubas. As one example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tsyr, post: 356236, member: 354"] I've a number of Chen peices, several of which have seen a fair amount of mock combat in one form or another, and have had no breakages. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I suspect it's the exception, not the norm. Like someone else said, you do get what you pay for, but you still get a pretty good blade for a fair bit less. And again like someone else said, paul chen is ALWAYS improving... For example, I think their "low end" katana (The Practical Katana) has gone through something like 4 or 5 revisions since the first model was put out, whenever someone found a weakness they fixed it. They used to use a disc of cut bulletproof plastic for the tsuba, for example, instead of iron or steel... in concept it's a very nice idea, it lightens the load a bit, and you would think that bulletproof plastic would suffice... but there were problems with it, so they went to metal tsubas. As one example. [/QUOTE]

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