Illustrated Guide: Hereby you find quality differences between WKC products and copies of other producers. When you look at purchasing a sword, this guide helps you to determine if the quality of the offered product is acceptable.
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- Other producer product: Badly tempered blades do not come back straight when bent, but stay curved. |
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| - WKC product: Well tempered blades come back straight when bent. |
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| - Other producer product: Guard is not in one line with the blade. |
- Other producer product: Attention to the chiseling on lionhead, the screw can be seen |
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| - WKC product: Guard is in line with the blade. |
- WKC product: Nice chiselling on lionhead, the screw can not be seen |
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- Other producer product: Gaps between grip and guard show bad assembly and will come loose when used. |
- Other producer product: Bad details of casting |
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| - WKC product: No Gaps between grip and guard assure correct assembly and long hold. |
- WKC product: Fine details of casting |
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- Other producer product: Bad details of casting |
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| - WKC product: Fine details of casting |
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- Other producer product: Soldering and grinding of scabbard rings is poor. |
- Other producer product: Bad soldering and grinding of the end piece. |
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| - WKC product: Clean soldering and grinding of scabbard rings. | - WKC product: Clean soldering and grinding of the end piece. |
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- Other producer product: Rust on blade, poor plating. |
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| - WKC product: No rust on blade, nice plating. . |
Royal Logistic Sword |
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| 1. Other producer product: Trop screw of poor quality. |
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| 1. WKC product: Top screw of high quality. |
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| 2. Other producer product: Guard hole for sword knot is rough inside. |
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| 2. WKC product: Guard hole for sword knot is well polished inside. |
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| 3. Other producer product: Fishskin is rough and worm out colour. |
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| 3. WKC product: Fishskin is not ard hole for sword knot is rough inside. |
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| - Other producer product: Guard is not like a bow but flat. (see left guard part). | - Other producer product:the top part of the cap is not horizontal but falls down. |
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| - WKC product: Guard is like a bow. (see left guard part). | - WKC product: the top part of the cap is horizontal and does not fall down |
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- Other producer product: Blade etching: logo is very unclear and few details can be seen. |
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| - WKC product: Blade etching: logo is very clear and nice details can be seen. | |
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- Other producer product: Grip cap can been looked through between grip and cap |
- Other producer product: Cap does not sit straight on the sword. |
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| - WKC product: Grip cap can not been looked through between grip and cap | - WKC productt: Cap does sit straight on the sword. |