{"id":3373,"date":"2020-10-07T22:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T03:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2020-10-07T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T03:42:07","slug":"hanwei-albrecht-sword-on-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/hanwei-albrecht-sword-on-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanwei Albrecht Sword on Special"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sh2034.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sh2034.jpg 650w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sh2034-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sh2034-250x119.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sh2034-150x71.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, Paul Chen&#8217;s Hanwei forge have produced some awesome value for money swords, some average ones and occasionally a flop &#8211; but the Albrecht is a true classic and in a league of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In continuous production now for over 15 years, it seems with this replica of a XVIIIa.1 &#8220;The Sword of Albrecht II&#8221; from Oakeshott&#8217;s  typology, they got it right the first time..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of old school SBG member JP Franco with his Albrecht, just to give you an idea of scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JP-Handandahalf.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3374\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While very big, it weights a mere 3lbs and is balanced only 4.5&#8243; from the guard &#8211; making it exceptionally good for thrusting, but it is no slouch in the cutting department either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But moreover, it&#8217;s really well constructed &#8211; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sword-buyers-guide.com\/albrecht.html\">official review<\/a> on SBG, Shootermike Harris mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <em>&#8220;the Albrecht probably made  1,000 strikes on the tire pell. One of the things that really impressed  me was it&#8217;s ability to cut little chunks out of the tire treads.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><cite>Shootermike Harris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When you consider you get all of this for just $289 at the SBG Sword Store &#8211; it&#8217;s already exceptional value for money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But from now until the end of the month, you can get it for a ridiculously low price of just $229.99!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product655.html\">Albrecht Special $229.99<br><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Available until the end of October and while stocks last..<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, Paul Chen&#8217;s Hanwei forge have produced some awesome value for money swords, some average ones and occasionally a flop &#8211; but the Albrecht is a true classic and in a league of its own. In continuous production now for over 15 years, it seems with this replica \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/hanwei-albrecht-sword-on-special\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sword-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}