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5 New Swords by Master Michael Ye for Forge Direct Chinese

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To replace the 5 designs from forge direct that we permanently retired last month, we are delighted to announce 5 new designs that take their place. Starting from the most basic and working our way up..

Four Beasts Jian

The best value for money sword in the new selection – it’s an awesome classic Jian with detailed brass fittings depicting the four beasts from Chinese mythology and legend – The Dragon, White Tiger, Phoenix and Tortoise. Also available with a fittings upgrade with 24K gold and silver if you want to next level it.

$699.99

Ghost-Banishing Sword

For over 2600 years, swords like this one were believed to banish bad luck and evil spirits. But as with all the Forge Direct blades, this is no mere ornament or lucky charm and is equally at home banishing home invaders or other bad guys as it is banishing evil spirits and bad luck. Complex folded steel octagonal blade geometry with lucky fittings. Upgraded version with darker fittings and 24k gold and silver plating available.

$799.99

Dragon Tiger Jian

Another classic Qing Dynasty Jian with a folded and differentially hardended blade decked out with premium quality 24k gold and silver Dragon and Tiger themed fittings. Stunning and deadly.

$899.99

Silver Dragon Sword

Unique Octagonal blade geometry with a prominent central ridge and curious star pattern in the folded steel that has to be seen to be believed. The design is perfected with premium quality 24k gold and silver Dragon themed fitting sets.

$899.99

Fire Dragon Sword

Classic Tai Chi style folded and double sided differentially hardened blade with elite 24k gold and silver plated fittings with a rayskin handle and rayskin covered scabbard. Available in standard and green colored configurations – the pinnacle of the new Forge Direct selection.

$1,299.99

Hope at least one of these new designs has your name on it! Check out our entire selection below:

Forge Direct Chinese

NEW: Doomsday Sword Number 10 by Scorpion Swords – Behind the Scenes and How It’s Made

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It is the second Ragnarok inspired Viking blade in Jason Woodards Doomdsay Sword series and the second with a curious fusion of ancient Norse design with modern materials and blade making techniques – starting as it always does with a 1:1 scale sketched design.

After careful consideration of the overall design and individual design elements, Chris Palmer then creates and has cut out a Master Template in 1095 carbon steel.

The blank has some basic edge geometry ground in and the handle is drilled in 11 places where pins and epoxy will later bind the handle to the steel.

Edges are further refined and a narrow fuller is ground along the center of the blade on both sides, providing it it’s general shape and styling.

The entire blade is then heat treated to around 1500 degrees and then quenched in brine, hardening it, before the steel is heated a second time to approx 500 degrees and allowed to temper.

The tempered blade is cleaned up and polished, and has two blocks of Black Linen Mircarta pinned and epoxied on both sides in a classic hard wearing sandwich tang construction.

From there, the handle is ground to shape and has 5 additional brass pins inserted, for one of the strongest blade to handle and overall strength swords currently on the market,

Finally it is all cleaned up, the blade is given it’s final edge, the handle gets wrapped in deer leather (and if ordered, the optional scabbard is fitted and made).

And the end result, Doomsday Sword #10 – Viking Type 8, now available at the SBG Sword Store for just $279.99

Not bad for an entirely made by hand in the USA blade!

Doomsday #10

NEW and On Special: Legacy Arms Maintz Gladius

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As anyone who has been following this blog recently will know, Legacy Arms has taken great strides over the last couple of years to update and completely overhaul their sword offerings by transferring production to a bigger and better forge – and the most recent sword to be overhauled in this way is the wasp waisted Maintz Gladius:

With a redesigned handle and distally tapering blade, it’s both stunning to behold and frightfully effective – and like all Legacy Arms blades this month, hits the ground running with the very best promotional price offer possible..!

Until the end of the month you can pick up this $265 sword with a $100 discount – and snap it up for a mere $165..

With only 10 days or so left in the promotion, and with the other swords in the series selling like hotcakes – if you want to grab the newest blade fresh from the forge at the very best price, well, you know what to do..

Legacy Arms @ SBG

Dragon King Winter Sun on Special until end of the month

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Winter might be behind us, but this flash sale on the Dragon King Winter Sun Katana is one final blast of icy cool goodness for April..

With premium fittings in a seasonal ‘icy winter’ theme and a 30.25″ 5160 monotempered blade and long 12.25″ handle, it’s perfect for larger sized practitioners and enthusiasts and is guaranteed to provide many, many years of fearless, frequent cutting – making it a popular ‘go to’ cutting sword for Tameshigiri cutting practice.

Normally just shy of $500, we sell it at the everyday low price of $379.99 – but while stocks last and until Midnight April 30, you can grab it for $100 off our already heavily discounted price and snap it up for just $279.99…

Winter Sun $279.99

Tatami Mats Back in Stock!

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After years of trouble sourcing Tatami mats we are delighted to announce that following hot on the heels of last months long awaited and long overdue restock, we have secured another 20 boxes of 10 mats per box available while stocks last..

Despite the high demand and continued trouble with supply, we have locked the price at $209.99 for the box of 10, which works out to be $10.49 per mat.

Tatami Mats Box of 20

And for those of you who need it, we also have available an easy to assemble DIY cutting stand for $99.99, so finally you can get your cutting fix and test your swords the way they were intended to be tested.