Sigh - seriously? Just rebuild it.
This sort of thing happens FAR too often - cheap sword? Expensive sword? It still happens.
I have swords that set me back about $200 - bad grip, bad tang.
I have swords that set me back close to $2000 - bad grip, bad tang.
With very FEW Exceptions - I now buy swords with these traits :
1) GOOD BLADE STEEL Remember that one.
2) GOOD TANG - don't SHOW me the tang? NO SALE.
3) Grip, scabbard, pommel - I'm not paying you for ANY of this. It will likely be junk. I will likely have to replace all of it.
So - just me.... let's examine the above. What it says is that there ARE no swords - just BLADES, and components.
Yes, there ARE exceptions.... but to get a real SWORD, as opposed to a collection of badly epoxied PARTS, One needs to go to the right person. GOOD vendors make swords. BAD vendors slap parts together. Epoxy is cheap - so are Angle Grinding wheels.
This board has just about every "right person" as a member. You don't HAVE to go to them. But I would suggest that it might be a good idea to do so
. I sell NOTHING - but like me? The REAL sword vendors concentrate on the whole PACKAGE - well executed blades with solid tangs, well fit grips, solid pommels, and perhaps a scabbard that
FITS. Muindor - you should not be able to both sheath a blade, AND park a '57 Chevy, in the same scabbard....
An offer - Over time, I've bought a LOT of stuff. Nan meth ("in the end"), if anyone wants to know WHO might be a good choice, in terms of vendor? PM me. Advice FREE. I do not claim to be the world's expert.... but I think I can identify the obvious losers
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