What happened and why? (bron “CAS Hanwei”/ sword-buyers-guide )
We will try to make a very long story short.
The factory producing our products for CAS Hanwei was facing many challenges and, unfortunately, was unable to remain open.
Since the well-deserved retirement of Paul Chen well over a decade ago, there was not as much energy or vision being poured into the factory,
and quite honestly the factory had never fully recovered from the devastating fire it had in 2011.
Then as with a lot of businesses, the financial instability from COVID-19 hit the factory very hard.
Additional complications, such as government regulations, the war in Ukraine impacting steel supplies, and global supply chain disruptions have further compounded an already bad situation.
Many factors aligned to create the perfect storm, leaving the factory with no reasonable path forward.
Thus, in December, the factory sent us their final shipment and officially closed their doors.
moving to another Dailan based sword forge, Frenchie Jin’s Dragon King. He worked withPaul Chen from the beginning of the Hanwei factory 30 years ago
What can you expect from the new CAS Hanwei versions? (bron “CAS Hanwei” sword-buyers-guide )
The first thing you can expect is that there will be immediate improvements and some minor changes that need to be made. With Frenchie and his former Hanwei artisans’ expertise, we can guarantee immediate upgrades across the board with the fittings, finish, painting, polish and wraps.
As sad as it makes us that the original Hanwei factory has closed, Hanwei and Paul Chen’s legacy will live on, continuing its pursuit of constant refinement and pristine quality that the brand is renowned for. We will be able to introduce new products from Hanwei (swords we had been developing that never came to fruition) in the future once we’ve retooled the primary products.
Our plans are to make minor improvements with select models in this process that have needed to be fixed for the last several years. The original Hanwei factory set the bar for what our products should be, we are now granted the chance to raise that bar even higher.
This transition will be very similar to what we did with the Legacy Arms brand last year when we switched factories. We increased the quality and availability of the products. Like the situation with the Hanwei factory fire of 2011, CAS will start with the primary cornerstone products in their respective categories that are not currently in stock, and we will expand from there once they are retooled.
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