LK Chen

During the Han Dynasty, the sport of Fencing was popular from the Imperial Court down to every street corner. There were many schools and well known teachers. Fencing scenes are popular subject matters on stone murals.

Total Length: 115cm 
Blade Length: 95cm 
Blade Width: 23mm
Grip Length: 17cm 
End Cap: 3cm 
Blade Thickness: 6.5-7 mm
Hardness: 54-55 HRC. 
Hand Guards: Stainless Steel
Grip: Flatten Wax Cord
Weight:1260g 
POB: 4cm 

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

Based on the White Arc Han Jian, Sparring White Arc is our spring steel version of sparring sword for practitioners who opt for a sparring sword with handling as close as possible to a real Han Jian.

Total Length: 115cm
Blade Length: 95cm
Grip Length: 17cm
Point of Balance (from crossbar): 14cm
Blade Thickness: 7mm
Material: GB 65Mn High Carbon Manganese Spring Steel
Scabbard: Leather

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

Flying Phoenix is created based on classic Han Jian design and optimized to deliver the fastest and the most powerful "Thrust" and "Strike" sword techniques. Flying Phoenix is considered by LK Chen to be his masterpiece and the foremost sword in the LK5 collection.

Total Length: 106 cm
Blade Length: 86 cm
Handle Length: 20 cm
Total Weight: 790g
Point of Balance (from crossbar): 13 cm
Blade thickness: 7-2 mm
Material: 1060 carbon steel + T9 tungsten-vanadium high-speed tool steel
Scabbard: wood, metal fittings 

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

Gale Wind is 1:1 recreation of a classic Ming Dynasty Jian.

Total Length: 97cm
Blade Length: 77cm
Handle Length: 15cm
Total Weight: 1kg
Point of Balance (from crossbar): 9cm
Blade Thickness: 7-2.5 mm
Material: GB 60Si2MnA High Carbon Manganese Spring Steel 
Scabbard: Wenge hardwood with stainless steel scabbard mount

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

White Serpent Ming Jian is a 1:1 replica of one of the most exquisite Ming Jian in private collection. During the Ming Dynasty, nobilities and high ranking ministers preferred Jian as their side arms as a weapon of self defense and a symbol of status. White Serpent Ming Jian features a beautiful blade designed for cutting and thrusting. Both cutting edges run almost parallel to each other with subtle tapering and end in a almond shaped tip.

White Serpent has the Ming classic Gourd and Lingzhi hilt design but executed in delicate open metal work, project a sense of lightness and transparency. Richly appointed with brass fittings and ivory damask wrapped scabbard give White Serpent a distinctive Ming era design.

Total Length: 96cm
Blade Length: 76cm
Hilt Length: 20.5cm
Blade Width: 3.5cm
Blade Thickness: 5.5mm
P.O.B (from guard): 12cm
Weight (without scabbard): 870g
Edge: Sharp

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

Inspired by 19th century Persian Shamshir in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts. This Persian Shamshir has a beautiful curvature and is light and fast in hand.

Total Length: 93cm
Blade Length: 76cm
Total Weight: 725g
Point of Balance (from crossbar): 13cm
Blade Thickness: 6-2 mm
Material: High Carbon Manganese Spring Steel
Scabbard: Top grain leather wood core scabbard

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

Designed by Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant, the 1796 pattern light cavalry saber was based on Central and Eastern European hussar swords. As a young captain, he observed the clumsy design of the heavy, overly long 1788 Pattern swords. He gave the blade of this saber a pronounced curve, which made it more adept at cavalry attack methods, and designed it with a widened tip that affected the balance, but made slashes far more brutal.

It was issued primarily to British Light Dragoons and Hussars and was also used by the King's German Legion light cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. The blade profile became so popular that the Prussians and other German states emulated its design throughout the 19th century.

Total Length: 94.2cm
Blade Length: 81.5cm
Total Weight: 926kg
Point of Balance (from crossbar): 15cm
Blade Thickness: 7.5-1.7 mm
Material: High Carbon Manganese Spring Steel
Scabbard: Yes (Stainless Steel Scabbard with wood lining)

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

The 1860 saber received its name to distinguish it from the larger and heavier Model 1840 Heavy Cavalry Saber that it replaced. Like its predecessor M1840 it had a brass guard, leather-wrapped grip and steel scabbard but unlike the M1840 it was smaller and easier to handle.  M1860s were carried not only by cavalry but also by many infantry and staff officers.

High-ranking officers, often had their swords ornately engraved with gilding and foliage. Famous 1860 saber owner's included Union general George Armstrong Custer and Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart.

Except for a few early German imports, the majority of 1860 sabers were produced in the US, primarily by Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee, Massachusetts, a major provider of side arms, swords, light artillery, and heavy ordnance for the Union in the American Civil War, and by firms such as Tiffany and Co in New York and Emerson and Silver in Trenton, New Jersey.

LK Chen US 1860 Cavalry Saber is created after detailed study  of an 1864 Emerson and Silver antique saber.

Total Length: 104cm
Blade Length: 89cm
Handle Length: 15cm
Weight: 1.2kg
Material: 60Si2MnA High Carbon Manganese Spring Steel
Scabbard: Steel

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

The blade was made in Solingen and bears the Solingen mark. A horizontal pipe back ridge forms on the back of the blade, and becomes a central ridge at the tip. The hilt of the sabre was equipped with a steel guard and the guard was connected to the head of the hilt through an integrally made finger guard, and the grip was made of Bakelite, the first synesthetic plastic.

The scabbard is made of nickel-plated steel and has two sheath rings with fixed hanging loops.

Total Length: 98cm
Blade Length: 83.4cm
Blade Width: 2.8cm
Blade Thickness: 8mm
P.O.B (from guard): 10cm
Weight (without scabbard): 938g
Edge: Sharp

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.