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New Products

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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

Launch 2 of 2: The SBG Custom Katana LITE!

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A Custom Katana LITE Prototype

From one end of the price spectrum to the other, the SBG Custom Katana returns to it’s roots with the Budget Model LITE series!

This is as, if not MORE revolutionary than Custom Katana 3.0 – a custom Katana available for just $229.99!!

So how do we get the price down so low?

Instead of T-10 tool steel (which is hard to work with, but produces a magnificent blade and hamon) we use basic clay tempered 1050 (which is easy to work with, but produces a lightweight munitions grade blade and hamon).

Instead of a high leve polish and geometric kissaki and bo-hi, we use the standard options everyone else does.

Instead of Iron or Work Hardened Elite Copper Sets, we settle with basic brass and alloy. And we also limit the total number of choices (56 iron/copper tsuba with 3.0, 36 brass/alloy with the lite).

And we make all the blades to one size (28″) tough with 3.0 you get to select 27, 28 or 29″ blades.

But despite these limitations, the end result is a decently made, quality assured custom sword suitable for light cutting duty – and what it loses in durability it makes up for in speed, even the solid bodied blade version handles super fast and weights only 2lbs 3oz! Go the bo-hi and good luck tracking the blade in movement!

Anyway, here’s one we made earlier 😉 Want to make the same thing? How about with black ito? Or a blood red saya? That’s te beauty of this project. YOU CAN!

Check the new options out here at the SBG Custom Katana Store Page – in the meantime, some very affordable, customizable eye candy for you all..

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Custom Katana LITE in textured S11 Saya

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The natural, UN-enhanced hamon

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Fast, well balanced – and – well, LITE!

 

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Launch 1 of 2: Project X The Dragon Dao!

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It has been brewing away behind the scenes for months now – the next stunning heirloom quality sword by Project X Chinese, the ferocious Dragon Dao by Master Sword-smith Xiaolong.

While clearly it is not a low priced piece, it is available to pre-order at a MASSIVELY discounted price: the only other way to get this sword would be to travel to Longquan personally and pay the full price, so the total cost plus airtickets, accomodation etc required to obtain one could easily run into US$5,000plus..

So naturally enough, if you CAN swing it, these are quite an amazing investment – being made available at what is essentailly a WHOLESALE price..

But only if you are quick..

Click here for more details

– Paul

Custom Katana Blog joins the fray

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Just a very quick update, the new blog is now pretty much 100% operational and we have just finished migrating all the posts and content from the custom katana blog so everything is all in one place..

Again, this extra functionality is needed, because within the next week we will be making a rather exciting announcement regarding the custom katana..! I can’t provide too many additional details at this point, but if you are a custom katana fan, stay tuned for a major (and very positive) shakeup!

Welcome to the new look SBG Sword Store blog!

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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