Custom Katana – New Options for Ryujin and Forge Direct

It is PROBABLY too late for Christmas to get one of these delivered in time (unless you order a Ryujin Custom Katana and live close to California – the elves at the Ryujin workshop have gone into overdrive and have been assembling and sending out swords within 48 hours recently instead of the usual week!) but Christmas aside for a moment – just a quick update on our current two main custom Katana lines.

First off, the elite level Forge Direct Custom Katana now has the O-Katana as a separate product in its own right.

fd-custom-okatanaThe reason for this is two fold:

  1. I was not comfortable with the necessary price fluctuation on the Custom Katana to make it an O-Katana. The idea was to have ONE flat rate price regardless of your customization choices OR where you live in the world, but we simply could not offer an O-katana for the price of a standard length Katana, so made it a break away product in its own right and..
  2. It became apparant that it was not always feasible for the O-Katana to have every saya made that can be offered for the standard Katana line. The reason is that the saya come from a third party saya specialist provider, and we could not afford to buy in bulk every type of saya as they don’t deal in single quantity orders. Additionally, the time frame of the O-Katana is about 2 weeks longer than the standard Katana. So we changed the saya options, info – and dropped the price from just over to just under $1000..

Check it out HERE

WIth the Ryujin custom Katana line, we added 2 new saya options:

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New Option 1: Gun Metal Grey

Saya Option 2: Matt Dark Red

Saya Option 2: Matt Dark Red

And finally, the Gold ito wrap is back in stock if you want to get regal with it.

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Check out the full Ryujin Custom Katana line up HERE

Cold Steel Restock

cold_steel_logoIt has been several months since we have had them available, but pretty much the full range of Cold Steel Swords have just been restocked at SBG and with limited quantities and Christmas just around the corner, there has never been a better time to get one..

From Katana to English Backswords, Cinqueda to Tactical Machetes under $50, they have something for everyone at pretty much every price point, including one of my favorites – the Italian Long Sword!

Click here to see every sword we stock

Christmas Special – Hanwei Wind and Thunder Daisho

wind-and-thunderThe Wind and Thunder Katana and Wakizashi are two of their most powerful cutting blades. Designed for the Dojo and with heavier and thicker blades than any other Hanwei Katana, these T10 tool steel swords are some of the best made cutters around – and normally priced between $650 to $990 for the Katana and $499 to $700 for the matching Wakizashi.

But from now until the 18th of December, just in time for Christmas, you can get them at BELOW WHOLESALE prices – just $529.99 for the Katana and $379.99 for the Wakizashi. That means you can get the Daisho set of two swords for LESS than the retail price of the Katana by itself..!

An ideal gift to take a collector to the next level of quality – these swords have it all, imported Japanese cotton ito wraps, Iron raiden god of thunder themed fittings and of course, a stunning differentially hardened T10 tool steel blade with real suguha hamon.

Check them out here in the Hot Specials Section of the Store

Christmas Special – Musashi Tsuba Ryujin Custom Katana

xmas-special-muashiJust added in time for Christmas – we have taken the same high quality differentially hardened T10 tool steel blade with bo-hi (fuller/blood groove) this line is famous for, added a Miyamoto Musashi style solid iron tsuba and given you the choice of 8 tsuka ito colors and 5 saya options to create your own design – saving you $50 off the usual price!

Assembled and shipped out within a week, it is the last guaranteed opportunity to get these custom swords before Christmas, so why not get it for $199.99 instead of $249.99?

EXCLUSIVELY available as a Christmas Special and scheduled to be discontinued after 7 days, get these while you can..

OFFER EXPIRED – PRODUCT NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Project X Chinese – Limited Edition Release

x-jian-windsteel-2We are proud to release a bit of a ‘surprise’ item for fans of Project X Chinese – the limited edition Wind Steel Jian, a stunning 1095 carbon steel with a rare and very hard to reproduce ‘Wind Steel/Feather Steel’ shuangxue (hamon)..

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Close up of the Wind Steel pattern, made by a special differential hardening technique. Click on the pic to enlarge.

This sword has been produced in conjunction with Ronin Katana and, apart from this blades amazing cutting power, durability and stunning blade and fittings – is not a pre-order item, it is available for immediate delivery, and there are only 4 pieces available – making it a true limited edition release for Chinese sword enthusiasts..

While the name ‘feather steel’ may make it seem like a lightweight, nothing could be further from the truth..

Like I said, only 4 are available and it is a limited edition, one off piece – so don’t miss out!

Check it out in all its glory here