Shipping Info

Shipping Procedures

Within minutes of placing your order you will receive an automatically generated email confirming your order details as well as a five digit order number. If you have any questions, simply contact us and one of the SBG team will get back to you as quickly as possible (usually within a few hours on weekdays Mon-Fri, though it may take a bit longer on occasion).

Should a product be out of stock, we'll notify you of the delay immediately. If that happens (not likely), we will ask if you prefer to cancel your order for a full refund, change it to something else or place it on backorder (its up to you of course).
 

Warehouse Locations

Unless otherwise stated in the product description, almost all of our products are shipped direct from the manufacturer's warehouse - normally within 2-3 business days (from Monday to Friday, excluding weekends and public holidays).

How long it takes to ship and arrive depends on the products lead time plus the distance you are from the given warehouse (see below).

• CAS IBERIA (Hanwei, APOC, Dragon King, Kingtston Arms, Legacy Arms): Tennessee, USA
• DARKSWORD ARMORY: Quebec, Canada
• FORGE DIRECT/PROJECT X: Longquan, China
• KINGDOM OF ARMS: Tennessee, USA
• RONIN KATANA: Texas, USA
• RYUJIN SWORDS: California, USA
• SCORPION SWORDS: Missouri, USA

Of course, preparation lead time will may also vary according to the current workload and may be shortened or extended by a matter of a day or two. As soon as your order has been dispatched, your order status will be updated and you will receive a second email to let you know and give you an estimated time of arrival or the tracking information.

US Shipping is a flat rate of $20 for one to two swords and becomes free if you order three at the same time. Smaller items (such as accessories and knives) are generally $5 if shipped by themselves and become free if piggybacked onto a sword order or if two or more are ordered at the same time. As items are kept in stock at several warehouses, multiple items ordered at the same time may be shipped separately. For more information, please refer to the product description which states which warehouse the item will be shipped from.
 
Please note that occasionally the shipment notification/tracking emails are flagged as spam by various spam filters (gmail and aol in particular seems to be fond of doing this) so please either whitelist our email address or check your 'junk' email folder (it doesn't happen all that often, but its good practice to check anyway as a lot of legitimate emails of all kinds get flagged as 'spam' by overzealous filters).

International shipping

Generally speaking, the majority of our customers are North American and since early 2019, international shipping has become increasingly difficult. Up until November 2019, we were shipping to a select number of 'sword friendly' countries outside of the USA (though some swords cannot be shipped outside of the USA due either to postal maximum length restrictions, agreements with the manufacturer or ongoing shipping issues).

For the most up to date information on international shipping, click here. For customers interested in buying a sword who reside outside of North America, please visit the International Orders Page Here or use one of the various forwarding companies listed below:

Click here for more information on these forwarding company services

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING TARIFFS AND DUTIES: Orders outside of the US may well be subject to local tariffs and duties which we are unable to control. For more information we suggest contacting your local customs office or checking this useful online duties calculator. Also please note that for some orders shipped from Asia directly may incur additional charges and levies which are out of our control and as they are not collected by us, will not be re-reimbursed and remain the responsibility of the customer as importer.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING LEGALITY AND RETURNED OR CONFISCATED ITEMS: While we do our best to limit the swords we ship ONLY to countries where we have successfully shipped in the past and where the swords are legal, it is getting increasingly difficult to ship swords overseas in recent years - many carriers refuse to ship them without notice, and customs may for unexplained reasons may refuse to process an incoming shipment. If this occurs, we will work with you to try and either get the item cleared or returned to us for refund minus standard restocking fees. But please note that we cannot refund and item that is confiscated and not returned, so if in doubt, it is the buyers ultimate responsibility to check current import laws. We would love to be able to help if this happens, but as small company we cannot afford to pay out of our own pocket if an item is confiscated by customs and not returned.