General Update

Ok, a little overdue for an update – quite a few things to cover in this post so I will try to make it short and sweet.

First up, apologies to everyone who received slow responses to inquiries and shipping last week. The entire SBG team all got sick at the same time, Merritt with a cold, Marco with a stomach bug and yours truly with a minor injury (it never rains but pours!) so right now we are playing catchup..

Thankfully, catch up is working on the SBG custom Katana – batch 26 is now out the door minus the usual straggler or remake here and there, and batch 27 – due on the 15th of October, is completed, has arrived and is being prepared for shipping.

As such, we should be taking the brakes off on accepting new orders within a week, so if you are on the SBG custom Katana waiting list, expect an email very, very soon!

In other store news, we have re-categorized our products and over the next few weeks plan to add some new, carefully selected products to expand our range of offerings. There will be a few surprises, so stay tuned for that.

Ok, need to get back to the catch up – will post again with another update shortly!

– Paul

Thanks all!

Hi All,

Thanks to everyone who participated and snapped up a bargain for themselves over this weekend – it was a lot of fun. 🙂

We don’t have sales very often – indeed, we simply can’t! To be able to run sales like this more often – we would have to be cheeky like some other sellers and RAISE our prices to DISCOUNT them, which does’nt make as much sense to me as having everyday low prices, right!?

But yes every now and again we need to move some extra stock – and the best ways to find out what, why and for how much? THIS blog or this store newsletter!

Hope you had a great weekend and talk again soon!

– Paul

New Products

After the recent two major product launches, the SBG sword store seems to be entering a new period of expansion with not 2 but 9 new products entering the line up.

It is a slow process because we never add products lightly. There are hundreds of swords we could list for sale in theory, but each one must pass a simple test and answer one simple question as the primary junk catching filter:

“Would I buy THIS sword at THIS, my best price, from the store?”

Hundreds of swords get left by the wayside at the outset. If I umm and arr and think “maybe” – it gets rejected.

Only when I think “Yup, I would grab that one in a heartbeat” does a potential product stand a chance.. It needs to be 100%..

Anyway, now that you have a little insight into HOW we select new swords for sale, let us take a product by product, post by post, look at WHAT new swords are available!

– Paul

Welcome to the new look SBG Sword Store blog!

First off, as the title of this post suggests, welcome to the new look SBG Sword Store blog!

Of course, it is not just the appearance of the blog that is different. Indeed, as anyone who has been a regular SBG site and store visitor could tell you, since March the site, store and now the blog have all changed their basic apperance!

But as with the other changes, they were more than skin deep – having added new functionality for the future by migrating the blog from blogger (which served us well for many a year and which I can highly recommend) to our own hosted wordpress blog.

You will see exactly how this will transform and I hope make the sword store blog even more useful and interesting over the coming weeks and months.

But in the meantime, stay tuned – another reason for transferring to our own, more robust platform is because we plan on posting a lot more often than we did with blogger. And as we have not posted for a while, and we are about to release TWO new SBG exclusive products witin the next 2 weeks as well as many other exciting developments coming to a head, we have a lot of news to share…!

Talk to you all again soon, and thanks for bearing with us while we remodelled the site and the store. What you see now is pretty much what we plan to be using, and while there are still a few more tweaks here and there, the foundation is solid – no major disorentating changes from now, I promise!

– Paul