Hanwei Hot Specials – Save Hundreds!

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May-hotspecials2016-2From today until the 5th of June we have three of Hanwei’s Best discounted to below wholesale prices.

The first sword is the stunning Lion Dog Katana, made from Hanwei’s own answer to the ultimate katana steel, their proprietary HWS-1S Steel Alloy with one of the most attractive natural hamons ever seen on a production blade:

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The Stunning Hamon of Hanwei’s HWS-1S Steel Blades

As nice as the hamon is the savings you can get if you are quick – down from a MSRP of $1,400 – down from our normally heavily discounted price of $929.99 to a ridiculously low $679.99..

The second sword is the classic Wind and Thunder Katana, a true power cutter down from $990 to just $499.99! And finally, for fans of medieval swords, the ultra durable – big and beefy – River Witham sword – down from $290 to a true bargain basement price of just $159.50..

All of this swords are brand new, best quality blades – not factory seconds or blemished swords – and the only reason why they are selling at such low prices is because Hanwei needs to rotate their stock on a regular basis – and these three excellent swords all just happened to become available at the same time.. But these bargains never last long, so if one of them interests you – you need to act fast..

Click here to see all the specials

Custom Katana – Batch 40 Now Taking Orders

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We just closed off on batch 39 of the SBG Custom Katana, due 17th of August – and have opened up Batch 40 accordingly. Batch 37 is now in the final stages of assembly, all the blades have been done and once assembled should ship by the end of the month and start to arrive in Canada for inspection and final shipping in June as scheduled (though I have been told that bad weather in Longquan and across China generally is causing delays with saya drying times on pretty much everything there and at many other forges, though hopefully it will not slow things down too much on batch 37 and batch 38).

You can check the status of the most recent batches here (just updated).

Additionally, because we now have 3 brands of custom katana and each one is similar but ultimately very different, we added a new page to our blog “Custom Katana – Similarities and Differences” here

Paul Chen Golden Oriole Daisho Set Half Price Sale..! (Expired)

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OrioleSALE EXPIRED 22nd May

The Golden Oriole Katana and Wakizashi are a Hanwei classic.. These were some of the first swords made from T10 tool steel, and with features such as iron, gold inlaid fittings, rich blue saya and imported Japanese cotton ito, they were – and remain – some of the classiest Dojo ready cutting swords currently on the market..

But from now until the 22nd of May you can pick BOTH the Katana and the Wakizashi for less than the cost the Katana itself typically sells for elsewhere – just $880 with FREE SHIPPING in the USA..

If you have ever wanted a top quality Paul Chen Daisho set, THIS is your “Golden” opportunity..

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Available While Stocks Last

Forge Direct is Back…! Plus a new ELITE Custom Katana!

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Forge-Direct-BannerForge Direct 2.0 was officially launched on the 4th of May, and in many ways while it was sad to see the old smiths stop taking new orders last month, what has come out of the ashes as it were is potentially even more exciting to even more people than ever before..

I posted about the new swords in a post on the 31st of March appropriately entitled “the Future of Forge Direct” but to make a long story short, this vision became a reality on the 4th of May, with all the sneak previewed swords I mentioned in that post now available to order, and some new ones, including some rather big surprises..

In addition to the 4 traditional, heirloom quality Chinese swords, we added two Japanese style blades to the mix – the first one, a stunning Nara period Tachi..

And the second, our most elite custom katana to date, the Forge Direct Elite Choji Midare Hamon Custom Katana

This Katana has the most customizations of ANY custom sword we have ever offered at SBG and the nicest blade.. And what is even better, the price – we squeezed our margin to an insanely low level for this introductory offer and this time the smiths do not mind as they understand our “deliver maximum value possible” philosophy..

Since this new addition brings us to three lines of custom katana at the SBG Sword Store, I did a bit of a special write up to help clarify what the differences are that you can read here.

In the meantime, well..

Check out the Full Forge Direct Line Up Here!