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Not sure how you feel about the weather but it has been sunny & warm over here for the last couple of weeks so you won’t hear me complaining ;) In this issue you can find some of my rands about pictures, my trip to china, the movie 13 assassins and of course the link resources as usual. Good weather makes me happy and makes we want to take swords out of their boxes to make some nice pics. Last week I’ve took the kami katana out and shot about 100 pics. Some are posted on facebook already,

After some manufacturing delay at the forge, shipping problems because of the expo in Shanghai which forced us to ship the swords by sea and some other issues I do not want to bother you with, the new budget friendly konron swords officially arrived in my hands ! When I started the first check on Thursday I came across a few unexpected guests. The boxes where slightly smaller and when I opend them, there was just a sword with a cleaning kit, there was no 2e saya included. When unsheating the

I’m not going to bother you with the ‘famous’ Konron story again but in short, when we broke up with them a while ago were able to track down some of the former smiths & workers there and are trying to continue with konron. They had some very skilled people there and it’s not because the management of Konron screwed up the whole thing (and gave me and some of my clients a lot of troubles) that the people who worked there need to pay for that too. I still have faith in them. We

Ok after all of the troubles I’ve got with the Konron dudes (have to post that thing here some day) there’s finally light at the end of the long, dark funnel. A few weeks back we received the first monosteel katana sample from the Zhui Feng forge and last week the folded piece came in. Not necessary to say I was happy as a little child. Yeah, still after all of these years, when new pieces come in, it’s like Santa Claus who’s dropping a package :))..always super excited ! Anyway let’s

Ok just a quick update from Konron since we got a ton of questions about the new shipment that was supposed to arrive end of January - beginning of February. Things got a little delayed as usual (adding more stuff & Chinese new year..)but the forge confirmed that there's a delivery packed and waiting for shipping at the FedEx storage in China so it won't take ages anymore before we can get them. It all depends

It's coming closer very fast, the end of the year. I don't know about you but it always remind me of how fast everything is passing by (and how old we become :o ). Last weekend I was digging in the store and found a lot of swords that are nowhere to be found in the shop. Models that were produced as a prototype but never made the actual production or one time pieces that came in some how , wrong deliveries, etc and while I was planning to do something with most of them I need to face the facts

After months of dealing with a lot of problems (may they rest in piece) we finally got some good things coming out of the box. In case you didn't noticed it yet, we now have the "customize your own katana" project up and running ! A short description of how this thing is working. You can go to here and start to design your own katana by choosing all of the components you like to see on your dream sword. There are over 20 different option boxes there that have multiple choices. Not sure how many

The summer is slowly passing by and after a relative calm (depends what that is to your definition :o ) period we're ready to go full speed again. The most important thing to mention here is the fact that the new 9260 Konron swords are ready. If all goes well, which is dangerous to say, they will leave the forge this week or next week. The problem we face at the moment are the damn Olympics. The security in China is on red alert now and no transportation company is allowed to transport swords

Just some updates in our samurai swords shop The response on the survey we held a few weeks ago was just amazing and I need to thank you if you did participate ! Really, these kind of things are so important to us in order to make the perfect sword for you. Everyone has a different taste, that's true but it can point us out in the right direction. Anyway, more than 70% of the voters were choosing for the Japanese fittings on the new Konron swords so....you get what you asked for :o and currently