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To commemorate Windlass Steelcrafts' 75th anniversary, Museum Replicas, the firm's primary reseller in the US is offering a mail-in rebate where orders containing under $99.95 of Windlass Steelcrafts' items on its website receive a 15% rebate check and orders over $99.95 receive a 25% rebate check. The promotion runs from March 16-30 and is valid on all in-stock items. Windlass Steelcrafts marks its 75th anniversary on March 23, 2018. It began in...

Wouldn't it be fun to create your own sword? Custom swords are not hard to forge if you go by how simple the movies make it look. A regular Joe should be able to get there with some research and practice, right? Not so fast. It takes skill and years of experience to produce high-quality blades. While technology has improved over the years, the basic processes of sword making have remained more or less the same over many centuries. Let's look at t...

I've long been fascinated with swords. I was fortunate enough to start cutting with replica swords in my teens back in the 1980s. It was that, combined with play fighting using all manner of sword simulators, which set me on a lifelong course of study. But it wasn't until the 1990s that I came to understand what factors went into making a sword "real" or rather, what made one an accurate reproduction of a historical model. Fast forward to today a...