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Post by demonskull on Nov 12, 2018 12:07:31 GMT
It looks like there will no longer be a Deal of The Day at MRL. They have replaced that field with a Weekly Special Deals. www.museumreplicas.com/weekly-dealsCurrently no weapons on this week's deals.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Nov 12, 2018 16:04:51 GMT
Thats what they did on atlanta cutlery...something like it anyways.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 18:20:41 GMT
As they are offering a batch of stuff, this amounts to much the same thing without as much site maintenance. It may also allow for more opportunity (for both seller and buyer) than limiting stock to a single day.
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Post by nddave on Nov 14, 2018 5:00:20 GMT
Too bad, who knows if we'll ever see good swords available. I guess in their eyes this is a good way of getting rid of all that stock thats been collecting dust for years.
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Post by wlewisiii on Nov 16, 2018 20:28:15 GMT
Left them a msg: "No more deal of the day? That was about the only reason to buy direct from you. KoA, here I come!"
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Post by WVfishguy on Nov 17, 2018 1:36:57 GMT
It's the end of an era. With the financial situation I'm in, it may be the end of my sword collecting. Except for the Hanwei Cawood sword - I'm going to get one of those come hell or high water.
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Post by mattjohn98 on Nov 17, 2018 1:44:01 GMT
Alot of their swords are junk anyways, so I'm not upset. I'm sick of their quality issues.
Your better off getting a Hanwei sword if you want reasonable performance.
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Post by nerdthenord on Nov 17, 2018 2:00:17 GMT
Well that’s sad. That’s how I got my first real sword, the Stiklestad Viking sword. Darn good sword.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Nov 17, 2018 8:52:45 GMT
Alot of their swords are junk anyways, so I'm not upset. I'm sick of their quality issues. Your better off getting a Hanwei sword if you want reasonable performance. I actually disagree to an extent. For the price you get an actual sword that won't break or be a crowbar. Hanwei also has a pretty limited selection compared to windlass in terms of type, hanwei has like one sabre while windlass has a ton for instance. I like hanwei, but also don't think windlass is just junk.
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Post by pgandy on Nov 17, 2018 13:40:02 GMT
I found it a sad day when MRL discontinued their DoD. It was a morning ritual to click onto their site. I was just beginning to buy about as much from them as KoA. It looks like now it’s “here I come KoA”. There is a Windlass and a CS sword that is pretty much on the top of my list and I’ve been holding off to see what Black Friday brings around. One big advantage, for me, is that Windlass does not sharpen their products as a rule whereas many of the other companies in that price range do. I found out all too late that if I order a sword and declare it “an unsharpened copy of an historical sword” I have no issues with customs and I like my sharpening better than either KoA or MRL.
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Post by William Swiger on Nov 17, 2018 20:41:31 GMT
Maybe Windlass swords will now sell for a fair price on the secondhand market. Most folks want to pay the deal of the day price plus 20% less......
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Post by stormmaster on Nov 17, 2018 20:45:43 GMT
I pay fair price 100 euro for all of your windlass and I pay shipping, gud deal yes?
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Post by Jordan Williams on Nov 17, 2018 21:36:12 GMT
I pay 100 and 2 cents. William Swiger have you tried contacting KoA to see if they're interested in them? They offered me more for the hanwei rapier I was selling than what it went for on here.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 23:18:32 GMT
Alot of their swords are junk anyways, so I'm not upset. I'm sick of their quality issues. Your better off getting a Hanwei sword if you want reasonable performance. Wow, pretty bold statement there... so you tried ALL of their models? Roven, Mercenary, Towton, Sticklestead, Leuterit, English Twohander, Gladiator, Pompeji, Kopis, Lakonia, some very good rapiers... Well, without the rapiers, your welcome to visit me here in Germany and do some excessive test cutting! Ah, the money, i know. Well, i would say your statement is... well how do i say it POLITELY... UNEXPERIENCED and LACKS KNOWLEDGE at least. With all due respect, cream and sugar on top. Windlass is not Albion (and they dont act like they are, like some other companies!), but they produced several very good, at least decent swords over the years. Ask the other long-timers in here.
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Post by mattjohn98 on Nov 18, 2018 4:21:57 GMT
Alot of their swords are junk anyways, so I'm not upset. I'm sick of their quality issues. Your better off getting a Hanwei sword if you want reasonable performance. Wow, pretty bold statement there... so you tried ALL of their models? Roven, Mercenary, Towton, Sticklestead, Leuterit, English Twohander, Gladiator, Pompeji, Kopis, Lakonia, some very good rapiers... Well, without the rapiers, your welcome to visit me here in Germany and do some excessive test cutting! Ah, the money, i know. Well, i would say your statement is... well how do i say it POLITELY... UNEXPERIENCED and LACKS KNOWLEDGE at least. With all due respect, cream and sugar on top. Windlass is not Albion (and they dont act like they are, like some other companies!), but they produced several very good, at least decent swords over the years. Ask the other long-timers in here. I have owned a lot of their blades. I own three of their swords that developed loose hilts. Their Shasqua has a huge gap in the hilt which became very loose. I also have the Mercenary which developed side to side motion in the hilt after two hits of accidently hitting my cutting stand. I was able to fix it with eboxy, so in all fairness its not a huge fail. The main problem was there scimitar I have that developed a crack after simply cutting water bottles. postimg.cc/ykMd66K1I also owned a Falcata from them, and it had terrible edge geometry. I had no catastrophic failures with Windlass, but the failures I've have from them was higher then any other company I purchased from. So no, I'm not being "UNEXPERIECED". They are not "BAD BAD" but they are poor in comparison to Hanwei.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Nov 18, 2018 5:00:01 GMT
Wow, pretty bold statement there... so you tried ALL of their models? Roven, Mercenary, Towton, Sticklestead, Leuterit, English Twohander, Gladiator, Pompeji, Kopis, Lakonia, some very good rapiers... Well, without the rapiers, your welcome to visit me here in Germany and do some excessive test cutting! Ah, the money, i know. Well, i would say your statement is... well how do i say it POLITELY... UNEXPERIENCED and LACKS KNOWLEDGE at least. With all due respect, cream and sugar on top. Windlass is not Albion (and they dont act like they are, like some other companies!), but they produced several very good, at least decent swords over the years. Ask the other long-timers in here. I have owned a lot of their blades. I own three of their swords that developed loose hilts. Their Shasqua has a huge gap in the hilt which became very loose. I also have the Mercenary which developed side to side motion in the hilt after two hits of accidently hitting my cutting stand. I was able to fix it with eboxy, so in all fairness its not a huge fail. The main problem was there scimitar I have that developed a crack after simply cutting water bottles. postimg.cc/ykMd66K1I also owned a Falcata from them, and it had terrible edge geometry. I had no catastrophic failures with Windlass, but the failures I've have from them was higher then any other company I purchased from. So no, I'm not being "UNEXPERIECED". They are not "BAD BAD" but they are poor in comparison to Hanwei. Hilts being loose happens on a lot of swords though. The hanwei rapiers in my club are all rattles for instance. Every company has lemons as well. For instance, again with hanwei a HT longsword blade I purchased came with a very soft blade and the tip was rolled over like a q tip. A windlass I had had a poor temper. An antique I had snapped in half when I flexed it. The gaps in windlass swords suck, but are easily fixed as well as you state. I had the hanwei shashka, and actually prefer some windlass sabres over it such as the DC'd 1906. Are they all good? No, but saying they're all bad strikes me as inaccurate.
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Post by mattjohn98 on Nov 18, 2018 5:06:53 GMT
I have owned a lot of their blades. I own three of their swords that developed loose hilts. Their Shasqua has a huge gap in the hilt which became very loose. I also have the Mercenary which developed side to side motion in the hilt after two hits of accidently hitting my cutting stand. I was able to fix it with eboxy, so in all fairness its not a huge fail. The main problem was there scimitar I have that developed a crack after simply cutting water bottles. postimg.cc/ykMd66K1I also owned a Falcata from them, and it had terrible edge geometry. I had no catastrophic failures with Windlass, but the failures I've have from them was higher then any other company I purchased from. So no, I'm not being "UNEXPERIECED". They are not "BAD BAD" but they are poor in comparison to Hanwei. Hilts being loose happens on a lot of swords though. The hanwei rapiers in my club are all rattles for instance. Every company has lemons as well. For instance, again with hanwei a HT longsword blade I purchased came with a very soft blade and the tip was rolled over like a q tip. A windlass I had had a poor temper. An antique I had snapped in half when I flexed it. The gaps in windlass swords suck, but are easily fixed as well as you state. I had the hanwei shashka, and actually prefer some windlass sabres over it such as the DC'd 1906. Are they all good? No, but saying they're all bad strikes me as inaccurate. I did not say "All" of them, I said "A lot" of them.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Nov 18, 2018 5:13:18 GMT
Hilts being loose happens on a lot of swords though. The hanwei rapiers in my club are all rattles for instance. Every company has lemons as well. For instance, again with hanwei a HT longsword blade I purchased came with a very soft blade and the tip was rolled over like a q tip. A windlass I had had a poor temper. An antique I had snapped in half when I flexed it. The gaps in windlass swords suck, but are easily fixed as well as you state. I had the hanwei shashka, and actually prefer some windlass sabres over it such as the DC'd 1906. Are they all good? No, but saying they're all bad strikes me as inaccurate. I did not say "All" of them, I said "A lot" of them. True enough; My bad. My points still stand though. Lemons are in every brand, and hilts loosening happen to just about most mass produced swords. Especially on mass produced swords that are mostly about sub 200 bucks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2018 7:27:06 GMT
Ah, to each his own, who cares... you wont convince me for example to buy a DSA sword EVER again, and its always astruggle when a nice Valiant sword is offered, and i cant get myself to try it again; so yes, personal experiences do matter. But just saying Windlass swords are junk is just.not.true. Period.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2018 7:29:47 GMT
By the way: Hanwei produces LOTS of lemons - you just dont see them in your US of A.... all sold in Europe, especially in Germany it seems. Getting a decent sword of any Hanwei model might take two or three efforts, sometimes from different vendors.
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