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Over the coming weeks and months I will be spending a lot of time updating the store and working on ways to make my customers experiences better.

Two of these changes have been added in the last couple of days – the first one is a much better and more robust shipping module. In the past we had some orders come in for products that cannot be shipped to some countries, or that did not automatically calculate the shipping cost which created a fair amount of extra work and delayed the order. This has since been fixed, and it would seem the new module is doing a great job.

The second update is an ‘out of stock’ notifier so if you click the order button on a sword that is out of stock you get the option to enter your email address and be notified when it comes back in.

Many more changes and updates are on the books – our goal is and has never been to be the biggest store. The store is, after all, just a way to fund the site and SBG community. So competing with normal sword stores is not something that we want to or will do – the more varied the vendors the better for everyone!

Our goal has always been to highlight a few really good swords that are not widely distributed elsewhere – and do it in a way that makes it as easy and informative for the sword buyer as possible.

More coming on this shortly, we have some very exciting months ahead. 🙂

Talk again soon,
– Paul

Phew, that flu really did mess up my schedule (first time in 7 years I have had a cold or flu, so I felt like I got ‘up to date’ and came down with at least 7 years worth in one go! Lol).

Anyway, there were actually quite a few new products added to the store during the flu downtime – including the 3 for 1 price deal on 3 models of the Hanwei/Tinker Pearce blunt training swords, the latest batch of Hattori Katana (including my favorite, the model 2202) – the last of the $149 Raptor Katana sold and post-flu, recently added, a LAST chance to pick up the Hanwei Yasukuni Colonels Gunto (pictured below).

Oh, and I nearly forgot, we also added one more in stock SBG Katana – the Yukiken (snow sword):

Speaking of the SBG Custom Katana – an official update is coming soon, but batch 18 is nearly finished and will ship out from the forge within the next 2 weeks, so that means we will be gearing up for the next batch VERY soon. For more information on these, please check the SBG custom Katana blog.

Anyway, apologies for the lack of updates – talk to you all again soon!

– Paul

– most notably the fourth addition to the SBG

Hi everyone,

I had been meaning to give an overview of new products added since the start of this month but after completing this months issue of the sword buyers digest came down with a nasty flu and fever. And while I have been working sporadically the whole time, there is a significant email backlog that I am doing my best to answer..

So if you are waiting on a reply from me on something non-urgent please bear with me a little longer, I am trying to address the most urgent emails first at this point – while it’s a good thing to say that I handle my own emails, times like this make it a bit of a nightmare..

I should be caught up soon and will do another proper update then.

Thanks for your patience,

– Paul

Well, it seemed to take forever, but it looks like batch 17 is now finally dealt with – there are still 2 or 3 swords that we are guiding in but for the most part they are all in and the feedback is what makes it all worthwhile..

Emails such as “Your customer appreciation and dedication is something that seems to a lost art nowadays. My katana has arrived and it is beyond all expectations. Thank you and your team for all of your hard work” and “The tsuba and hardware are incredible and the color scheme on the tsuka is better than I expected! I really appreciate the work done here, it is without doubt fantastic! Can’t wait to ‘clear some brush!'” make my day and though it sounds corny, they make the hard work behind each batch worthwhile..

Anyway, from now on all updates will be about batch 18 which is currently in production, and of course the next opening in Feb/March (batch 19) – though stay tuned as there may be one more special offer very (very) soon.

– Paul

Just a very quick post, over the next few days and weeks there will be a few minor cosmetic changes to the store as I try to streamline a few informational pages and make some critical information easier to find.

Quite a few new products are about to be released for the FIRST TIME on the site over the next few days and weeks, so to say its exciting (and rather busy) is an understatement.

Don’t worry though, everything being done is purely cosmetic and in no way effects the functionality of the store.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know what is going on – get ready, the next update should be a very exciting one indeed..!

– Paul