Time Sensitive special sales, discounts and promotions – some of which are exclusive flash sales just for readers of the blog. It pays to be in the know..!
The Winter Sun is a long bladed (30.5″ bladed) monotempered 5160 Spring Steel blade designed for practicality and long term durability in mind. Few 5160 monotemepered blades are just plain tough and forgiving as the Winter Sun, and it’s the kind of sword that has so much power behind it, it will plain old split your cutting stand in half and just wait for the next target..
It’s not just some bare bones tactical piece, the Winter Sun has class and style, with real iron and silver fittings, and if you buy it before the end of the month this blade that we normally squeeze our margins for to $349 is just $249.99 – lowest price it has EVER been. But only if you get it before the end of the month..
For the most part, I love the APOC series. I mean, designed by Angus Smith and covering so many unique and different blade styles that there is something to love for everyone. Especially when they are all so reasonably priced to begin with but the 9260 tempered steel can do, well, can do stuff like this:
However, there are four designs that no longer just ‘sit right’ with me. So I am making them available for one last time to anyone who they DO sit right with at the best closeout bargain sale price possible.
CHOP HOUSE KNIFE – Was $159
NOW $99.95
It’s kind of based on a cross between a Chinese Dao and a meat cleaver, but the cannibalistic connotation for this one is just a bit too much.. I get it, in hard times two legged meat is a tempting addition to the menu, but with a blade dedicated to this – it’s just a bit too gruesome and so we are discounting it down from $159 down to $99.95.
And next up, the axes – I added these as a bonus ages ago and never bothered to take them down, but while historical axes are great at SBG, I think tactical ones are just a tad too much..
So here’s the deals:
DOUBLE MUKK – Was $109.00
NOW $69.95
BARRENS PACK AXE – Was $99.00
NOW $64.95
HUNDR HATCHET – Was $89.00
NOW $59.95
So enjoy these final deals while they remain, all will be removed from the store midnight.
On the August the 8th we made what we thought was going to be one of the best selling deals of 2024.. And not for the first time this year, we were sorely disappointed.
We secured the best deal humanly possible, combined shipping and made it FREE for the whole of the USA and bundled together the entire Angus Trim designed Survival Katana Daisho series (Katana, Wakizashi and Tanto) that would cost $444.48 if you bought them at OUR Store ($405 plus shipping at KoA, elsewhere such as CAS Iberia closer to $550).
So when we did the math and factored in PayPal costs at our end, plus shipping costs and staff handling costs, we thought that $329 would see these blades go out the door like hot cakes..
If by hot cakes you mean, one – well, that’s pretty much what happened – and I have not been so shocked in a looobg time that almost no-one realized the value on offer here..
Maybe it’s the economy, maybe people don’t want to save money and get three of the best Tactical Katana for a price that works out at around $110 each.
So we have decided to heck with it, the bargain price is $299.99 with FREE shipping, and even if this means we might end up losing a whole lot of money on this if it goes sideways (because we priced it so close to the bone the first time around, I nearly didn’t go ahead with it).
If we end up losing too much money hand over first on this deal too quickly (after all, these are MSRP $200 swords going out for less than $99 a piece, complete with high quality tactical sheathes) we reserve the right to pull the plug and cancel and refund any orders as right now, the very last thing SBG needs is a loss, but we know by the sales figures that you guys are in need of a serious WIN..
So here is, for how long much longer I can’t say other than enjoy it while it lasts..
On May the 8th, just a little over 3 months ago, we introduced a line of really well tempered, differentially hardened 5160 Spring Steel blades from Ryujin in 4 different cool styles discounted down to just $329.
But it seems in this difficult economy, iron sets with real 24K gold inlay, hishigami inlay on the itomaki, what we thought the market wanted was something that just no one can seem to afford right now.
So it is with a heavy heart given a choice to RAISE prices (as they are not selling enough to cover their costs) or sell them off one last time down to the totally unsustainable price of $299.99
The sale ends in less than 24 hrs, so if you want to grab a bargain that everyone else let pass by before its too late, you need to act FAST:
While we plan another couple of minor sales and closeouts this month, so far without a doubt the APOC deal where you can get a full 9260 Survival set of swords for less than $110 a piece shipped is pretty much as good as it can possibly get, if you like Claymore’s – then THIS special deal, which is not a flash deal but is good for the whole month of August, is most definitely for you.
Best way to sum it up?
It’s really well tempered, distally tapered, central fullered, balanced only 5″ from the guard, lightweight (4lbs 4oz) for its massive 40.5″ blade and 13.75″ handle, and it’s hard to argue that its pretty good value at $389. But for $229.99 for brand new fresh stock – that’s a whole lot of quality steel for pennies on the dollar.. Do we really need to say more?
Puritans maintain that the Claymore references later single handed, basket hilt Scottish swords, but when most collectors think of Claymore, they are technically referring the Gaelic word “claidheam-hmor” which means ‘great sword’. But whatever they were called, they were truly terrifying weapons of war on the battlefield.
Here is a record of an aftermath from a heated battle near the pass of Killiecrankie in 1689:
“... the enemy lay in heaps almost in the order they were posted; but so disfigured with wounds, and so hashed and mangled, that even the victors could not look upon the amazing proofs of their own agility and strength without surprise and horror.
Many had their heads divided into two halves by one blow; others had their sculls cut off above the ears by a back-strock, like a night-cap. Their thick buffe-belts were not sufficient to defend their shoulders from such deep gashes as almost disclosed their entrails. Several pikes, small-swords, and the like weapons were cut quite through, and some that wore skull caps had them so beat into their brains that they died upon the spot.“
