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Hi Everyone,

Just a quick update on Custom Katana Batches 30 and 31. These were both originally scheduled to start shipping to customers by the 15th of February with the caveat that they could be delayed by Chinese New Year celebrations which as many of you may already know, pretty much shut down the whole country during the month of Feb..

Both these batches managed to clear Chinese New Year and were shipped out, but there were some shipping delays caused by Chinese New Year that have pushed it behind schedule – certainly not as bad as it could have been, but the shipments have been impacted somewhat as a result.

The good news is that the latest information I have is that they are almost clear from customs and the inspecting and reshipping phase should begin next week – so please bear with us just a little longer. We don’t want to rush the inspection phase and send you a flawed product or get orders mixed up because we are rushing – so your patience is really appreciated.

Thanks so much, any further questions or concerns feel free to drop us a line.

Sincerely,

Paul Southren

Hi Everyone!

Ok, we opened batch 32 a little behind the intended schedule – but after just confirming that batches 30 and 31 are completed and on their way from the forge, and with the forge opening in early March after Chinese New Year holidays – the timing turns out to be pretty much perfect. With few jobs in the que, batch 32 should go super smoothly and may (fingers crossed) come in earlier than the sheduled June 15 due date (though of course, we prefer that they don’t rush anything).

There are a couple of swords, all non-US orders, that are ready ship but not yet shipped from batch 29 (we are on it big time – they will all be out by Friday next week) and a couple of Aiguchi Tanto that did not make it in time from batch 30 and 31 (they will be the first thing the forge works on when they get back to work) – but otherwise, things are looking pretty good.

So for anyone who has been waiting over a 2-3 month hiatus, well – now is your chance!

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Just a very quick update, a few hours ago we closed off on batch 31 of the SBG Custom Katana – however if we were to follow our usual delivery schedule, batch 32 would end up seriously delayed by Chinese New Year Celebrations at the forge in late January 2015 to February.

Rather than have the batch get delayed like this, we have closed off on new orders to allow the forge to concentrate on getting completely up to date up to and including the most recent batch that closed a few hours ago.

Updates will be made accordingly and we will be doing our best to avoid any delays to existing orders – it is theoretically possible that there may be delays, but we have factored the Chinese New Year shutdown into our calculations so we should be fine.

Apologies for any inconvenience to people wanting to get in on a new batch, but we think it is better to pause orders entirely than get a slew of update requests from customers who miss important annoucements, etc.

Thanks for your understanding, more updates to follow soon (at the moment we are finishing off on shipping batch 28 and shipping some swords ahead of schedule on 29, so it is looking good!).

– Paul

Hey folks!

Some good news, just been conferring with the forge, working out the logistics based on what they have to do from now until the New Years shutdown and making some forecasts based on previous batches – and in case you have not noticed, the good news is that Batch 31 has re-opened and will make it this side of the shutdown (it is batch 32 that will not be so fortunate).

Because it may be a little tight, I would much rather close off early if we get more orders than the forge can comfortably, properly handle – so NOW is definitely the time to get in on the current batch if you are in the market and can swing it.

Will update you all again soon with more news on batch 28 and 29 – in the meantime, for those of you who have been waiting, time to get designing your custom sword!

– Paul

Batch 28, 7 designs – interesting that this time around there are so many black saya!

Just a quick update on the SBG Custom Katana – batch 30 closed on the 5th of November as scheduled and we are currently making some last minute adjustments as per customer requests before we finalize it once and for all and get the forge hard at work to avoid the Chinese New Year Shut down.

As mentioned in the previous post, we are confident we can make it and have the swords ready by the expected 15th of February deadline, but have temporarily paused Batch 31 while we work out the exact due date as 31 is going to almost certainly hit smack bang in the middle of the month long holiday over there and we need to come up with a strategy to either minimize the delay or just hold off until we are clear.

More news coming on this shortly.

In the meantime, Batch 28 is en-route and now is a great chance to share some preview pics we received from the forge of this batch.

Batch 28, blades drawn from scabbards. Note the geometric kissaki and overall blade quality! Nice work!

Close up on the handles

That’s it for now, another update coming soon!

Thanks all,

– Paul