The Hack n Slash

 As I'm sure you know by now its easier to get blood out of a stone than find a Hanwei sword in stock lately all because of a huge fire in their forge at the end of last year. The latest is that a container is due in mid August, contents of which are as of yet unknown. I've also learned that a good portion of Hanwei's line will soon only be available via their direct retail site EdgeFair.com. The reasoning for this is that their NEW factory cost is now more than they currently wholesale to dealers for leaving..  - Read More

 As a retailer one of the best things you can have is a great product, sounds obvious but a great product makes the customer happy, the retailer happy. Its a win for everyone. So its a shame the fine folks over at Cheness Inc had to halt their wholesale program for dealers due to poor exchange rates.  Note though, this isn't something thats just happened, Cheness halted their wholesale program last year but we still get requests for them and it reminded me how much we would like to have them back. In the meantime, if you are looking for..  - Read More

So Steve from Idaho sent in a great question the other day and its one we get a lot so I thought I'd share it with ya'll. "I've been searching high and low for a Hanwei Anniversary Shinto but no one has one. Why?" Well things started to go south at the end of last year. You see, our friends at Hanwei were due to complete a brand new shiny forge before the end of the year, but what they didn't count on was Mother Nature throwing the proverbial weather spanner in the works. The net result all production was..  - Read More

For a while now I've wanted to 'clean up' the store here at SamuraiBlades, make it easier to find stuff and easier to use. I'll admit, I'd been putting it off for a while, I mean who wants to mess with code when I could be mindlessly hacking stuff up with a katana? Its important research you know! Its quite likely that the much needed motivation came from the fact that I've been chugging down the vitamins and 'energy focusing' herbal tea lately - actually quite liking it, might need to tame the dosage though :) So just like that..  - Read More