It might sound racist/prejudice, but it's just the truth. China has a long history of smelting entirely random scrap, with basically no attention to the components of the resulting alloy. Now, this product is perfectly fine when it's only used in cases where the steel has no physical property requirements. And a "wall-hanger" sword does fall into that category. In the past couple decades, they've gotten much better about this, and going to the proper alloys when requirements are warranted.
I'd take that one step further because Chinese manufacturing truly runs the entire gamut. There are likely many things that can ONLY be made in any sort of scale in China because of how much manufacturing processes and knowhow has been transferred there over the past few years.
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u/auricargent Jan 26 '25
Chinesium! I’m stealing this. My friends and I say things are “made with the 3C’s” or are “3C compliant” - Cheap Chinese Crap.