09-24-2003, 09:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-24-2003, 09:35 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
In June of this year, I submitted the order for a sword at All Saints Blades of Washington State. Knowing that a manufacturing run of Angus Trim blades was just beginning, I was fully expecting to wait some 8-10 weeks for my particular blade to be shoe-horned into the next cycle after this one. To my surprise, they got the particular blade I wanted, a model AT1548, fabbed in this run. The blade was made within two weeks of my order.
I still don't have it yet, but that is to be expected: the sword was then shipped to Idaho to become an item of attention of one Christian Fletcher (that be his name, not what he literally is ;) ) so that he may modify the hilt into a reitschwert (a 16th Century ancestor to the rapier) and create a scabbard for the sword. The sword sits there still: its wooden grip being wrapped in leather; arms-of-the-hilt and side rings being forged and welded into the guard; a scabbard cut and wrapped to mate it.
So, I'm still waiting. And waiting. Something akin to Homer Simpson lounging on the front lawn for a week, waiting sullenly for the day that he can get his fancy new weapon (something to turn off and on the TV set, mind you. Nothin' more).
![[Image: at1548.jpg]](http://www.allsaintsblades.com/images/at1548.jpg)
A picture, from All Saints Blade's website, of the model AT1548 in its base form. Mine'll be purtier, of course. ;)
(And yes, I know: there's a typo in the picture's header. The guys sell swordsâ they don't win spelling bees)
I still don't have it yet, but that is to be expected: the sword was then shipped to Idaho to become an item of attention of one Christian Fletcher (that be his name, not what he literally is ;) ) so that he may modify the hilt into a reitschwert (a 16th Century ancestor to the rapier) and create a scabbard for the sword. The sword sits there still: its wooden grip being wrapped in leather; arms-of-the-hilt and side rings being forged and welded into the guard; a scabbard cut and wrapped to mate it.
So, I'm still waiting. And waiting. Something akin to Homer Simpson lounging on the front lawn for a week, waiting sullenly for the day that he can get his fancy new weapon (something to turn off and on the TV set, mind you. Nothin' more).
A picture, from All Saints Blade's website, of the model AT1548 in its base form. Mine'll be purtier, of course. ;)
(And yes, I know: there's a typo in the picture's header. The guys sell swordsâ they don't win spelling bees)
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