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Update: we posted our offer with several boards and the response was larger that I'd have ever imagined, so much so that there's no way we could find the time to respond to every email. a prospective reviewer has been chosen but the deal is not yet 100% final. I'd like to thank everyone for your int...

I am looking for someone (preferably in the cont. USA) to write an unbiased review for the ATrim I-beam longsword training blunt. I ask that any interested parties be an active member of a practice group that will use the sword in live steel practices at full speed according to the conventions of yo...

when I contacted KenseiSL I did so politely, respectfully and with an honest desire to exchange ideas. I did state that while I thought he had some ideas right that he also was missing some things and that I thought we could both learn from each other. his reply to my was extremely dismissive and ru...

yeah well watch his Authenticity in training series: for this gem "any sort of protective gear you may have: GET RID OF IT" and Bokken can be a great tool but, take the tsuba off. it's a hand guard and any protective gear has to go, you need to learn to protect your hands without a guard.&...

well those guys are both better than this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqY8tJSQG0

I'm actually embarrassed for him

one thing to remember is that tempering and hardening are both parts of Heat Treating but very different things. as I understand it differential tempering was done in Europe but that does not make a visible line very often that pretty much only happens on differential Hardening. method #2 is a commo...

I know a smith named Dan Davis who recently posted about how every Medieval European sword he has ever seen (several of them) have hamon on them but most people miss it because of the state of polish they are in and because they don't expect it. another smith, Sam Salvati, posted a link to a web pag...

thanks Aaron, yeah I was stationed in Milwaukee from 03-06 and that job had me up and down the whole west coast of the lake working on the small boat stations and I was in Kenosha from 98-2000 which had me up and down that coast working on light houses, so yeah I've spent some time over there. in fa...

sorry about the name, here's my full one. ok great to hear I will send a PM in just a tick. thank you. wow Appleton and St. Louis both places I have lived in or near in the past good to know you guys are there too. I'm in the USCG so I move around a lot and eventually I'll retire and be likely to mo...

I have heard there is a study group in the Portland, OR area. I have been wanting to train with a group/school for a long time but have had little ability to find them in the places I have been. I would very much apreciate contact info so I can stop being a loner I live in Seaside but I could make i...