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Hi everyone,

Update time – and LOTS going on at the moment. Project X in stock sales are about to begin any moment now (the swords have all landed, been inspected and are basically ready) – the only thing I am waiting on is to complete some listings for a brand new service coming to SBG…

It’s in it’s infancy, and you will see it on the site literally ANY time now (just doing the final testing to make sure that it will work the way it is supposed to). So stay tuned – it’s not going to be cheap as it is a premium service (our customizer is an experienced Japanese Sword Art Sensei based out of Oregon), but it WILL open up a world of options for our customers like never before!

The full skinny will be revealed in the February edition of our online magazine the Sword Buyers Digest due to come out early in the morning of the 1st of Feb, so if you haven’t already I suggest you subscribe!

In the meantime, just wanted to add that Cheness orders will face a shipping lag from now until after the 8th of February as they are taking some time off for Chinese/Lunar New Year (2013 is the year of the snake) – so while you can still place orders for their products they will not ship until around tuesday the 12th.

Got to get back into the fray so talk to you all again soon!

– Paul

Well, the holidays are finally over – it has been a fairly frustrating time to be honest as most of our affiliated shippers and warehouses closed down between Christmas and today, but the vast majority of orders have been shipped by now and by next week things should be completely back to normal.

I should have taken some time off over the period as with all our warehouses closed there was not a lot I could do other than to field emails and concerns. But it is a relief to finally be more or less on top of things, though there are still some bits and pieces that I am trying to get to over the weekend.

With all this activity, I have not been able to post about some new additions to the store – most notably a new special deal by Valiant Armory on their base model Norwich Falchion pictured below:

This Angus Trim designed blade is a SERIOUS medieval cutter, and normally sells for $360 – but is now on closeout, down from $288 to a ridiculous $216 with FREE SHIPPING in the USA and Canada.

Also in the HOT SPECIALS section of the store I am pleased to say that the special Raptor Offer is back – it’s been offered a couple of times in the past but you never can tell how long it will last or when the next time (or even if there will be a next time) will be..

I’ll be posting again soon as in between the utter Chaos of the Christmas holiday season we have been working hard on some new Projects, as well as preparing for the first release of the Project X in stock landed swords – more on this again soon!

– Paul

Well, it has been a busy and interesting few weeks in the lead up to Christmas.

We have had several specials come and go, notably the two Christmas Ninja specials from Hanwei, and on the 21st the long anticipated Ronin Restock arrived introducing several new models including my personal favorite of the line up thus far, the strikingly attractive Black on black tsuka with blood red saya 30″ blade ‘Trapped Oni Soul’ Katana pictured below.

Plus I think the new model 18 with it’s green silk ito is rather special looking…

  You can see them all in the SBG Sword Store here (there are over 1,000 Katana in stock).

Naturally, with Christmas now literally around the corner and with most delivery services only having three days between now and new years when they will be actively shipping, any orders placed now will take a little longer to process and arrive. But apart from a couple of days when I will be spending time with my 5 year old daughter over Christmas, the SBG Sword Store will still be open – though communication with some of our affiliated warehouses may be slow as many are either on or about to go on holidays. But I’ll do my best to stay in touch with you and help out with anything as much as possible.

I’ll post again before the new year is over as there will be a few (very) special offerings available that we have been sitting on for one reason or another. But in the meantime, have a great and Merry Christmas!!!

– Paul

It’s a mad house around here – with Christmas just around the corner there are shipments flying every which way, the stragglers from batch 20 of the SBG custom Katana going out – you name it, it’s happening!

But to top it all off, we had a couple of Hanwei sales recently – most notably the Hanwei Practical Ninjato that ended up selling out within 24 hours..! (actually, the Ninjas got to them! I’m not kidding, someone else snapped them up from the warehouse and will probably sell them at a much higher price – we had to reverse 5 orders within a day due to this sadly)..

Anyway, with Christmas FAST approaching – and because sword deliveries are not instantaneous – if you haven’t already now is definitely the time to get any sword orders that you want by Christmas in. Usually we don’t advertise Christmas sales because our store is not amazon.com – we are a small business, not a corporate giant shipping machine.

But this year, especially on the Hanwei’s, we thought “why not” as their warehouse is almost hands down the most effecient in the industry – so when two more deals came along on two extremely cool swords, we jumped on them.

And I suggest if you find them of interest you do the same, especially on that stunning Iga Ninjato in the hot specials section because I would not be surprised if they are snatched up again super fast..

For other products in our store, it’s probably getting a bit too late to order anything else other than a Cheness sword. Here is there official ‘when to order by’ schedule:

International orders, Hawaii, Alaska, PR – Orders needs to be placed by Friday November 30th
PO Boxes in the continental US – Orders needs to be placed by Friday December 14th
Continental US (Eastern, Central) – Orders needs to be placed by Midnight Monday, December 17th
Continental US (West Coast) – Orders needs to be placed by Midnight Thursday, December 20th.

 Personally, I feel it’s leaving it a bit close – as we get closer to Christmas packages fly every which way but where they are supposed to, and delays are to be expected. So if there is something you want, seriously, now is the time to get it..

Once the Hanwei sale is over we will be bowing out of the Christmas madness and concentrating on making sure that any existing Christmas orders make it there in time.

But yes, in the meantime – if you are in need of a sword for Christmas, don’t wait another second..

For our Christmas Specials, please visit the Hot Specials section 

Ok, I’ll admit it – I flubbed.. The recent special on the Hanwei Longsword, was actually for it’s cousin, the Tinker Pearce BASTARD sword…

Tinker Pearce BASTARD Sword

The price and special sharpening option still apply of course, I think that was what I was more excited about than anything else and the deal is a good one so in the middle of writing the newsletter I mixed it up (hey, at least it wasn’t an Oakeshott mix up! Cough).

Moving on..

Anyway, some important news – Ronin Katana is basically out of stock and will be moving warhouse, so the last day of shipping before they re-open is the 4th of December.

Details on the Ronin Katana Store Page

So in other words, if you want to get something for Christmas from them – you’d better get it now. Stock levels are super low – but the one I liked quite a bit personally, the Seikykoku (I’m rather fond of black fittings on my Katana personally).

Because it’s the only one with even a little bit of stock left, and becuse there are only 2 days to go, you can pick it up with a 10% discount – simply enter the coupon code:

BlackFittings

And you’ll get 10% off in the checkout – (coupon expires midnight, 3rd of December EST).

You can find it listed in the ‘Hot Specials’ Section here (and on the Ronin Page mentioned above of course)

Back with some more updates again shortly!