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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 12:49:27 GMT
What kind of dishonesty? I had gathered that their customer service was one of their better attributes If I dug up the discussions with the owner (Eyal Azerad) claiming they never used threaded pommels and never used epoxy, would that change anyone's opinion? Give it up, Ser Edelweiss... DSA are the Trumpoos of sword business. Real snakecharmers, pouring black honey in the ears of their victims. Some people have to walk knee deep through bantha podoo themselves before they achieve the ability to learn and get smarter. As always, my main concern is: i fear the day when somebody will get seriously hurt while using one of their things. And after all: even if their tangs are better by now, if their HT/tempering is good, if their grips got better... they still keep lying on the origin of their blades. Why?
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Post by William Swiger on Jan 30, 2019 13:03:04 GMT
DSA is an interesting company to be sure and has sparked numerous debates on this forum. From just MY understanding, they assemble the swords and parts from sourced suppliers. The videos they have released does not show an actual forging or stock removal workshop. The videos show a warehouse setup with shelves of very large boxes. They also show swords being assembled by some guys. I think the owner started in the beginning saying all the products were made by his company in Canada. Kind of hard to later on say this was not the case and stuck to his story to maintain a positive image of the company. The problem was many people started to question the origin of the swords and there was never any real proof to back up the swords and components were made in Canada. Again, MY personal belief is the swords are assembled in Canada and maybe some components might be sourced in Canada.
The questions surrounding all aspects of this company has been beaten to death on here.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Jan 30, 2019 18:58:55 GMT
So... EthanB You've got some good info, if you can, take pics and share. There are huge discussions about this particular vendor, but the short answer is...you already have one, and plan to mod it. AWESOME. We're here for ya. As to the facts on the company...it's muddy at best. Take it with a grain of salt.
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Post by ethanb on Jan 31, 2019 22:35:19 GMT
thanks for the feedback everyone. at the moment the way I think I will go forward is actually to sell this sword, and purchase a bare blade to add fittings of my design on to. I haven't decided for sure that I will do that, but I think I could probably get more for this sword than a bare blade would cost, which would give me a bit more budget to spend on fittings. On Albion's website, they have a 36" bare longsword blade for $240 heat treated. looking at the blade, it looks like I would need to give it a polish and a sharpening, is there anything else their bare blades require before they are useful?
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Feb 1, 2019 21:54:05 GMT
I have not personally held one, but my understanding is the Albion bare blades need finish grinding, polish and edged. So think of a blade that has been machined, and tempered...I don't know if they even have distal taper at that point.
Anyone in the know on this?
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Post by Lukas MG (chenessfan) on Feb 7, 2019 15:51:11 GMT
They require more work than just a quick polish. You have to do the final grinding and the entire shaping of the edges. Not really sensible to attempt that without at least a decent belt sander.
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Post by thomasthesecond on Jul 22, 2019 16:27:57 GMT
I feel like this should clear up a lot that was mentioned here, though it likely won't.
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Post by paulmuaddib on Jul 22, 2019 16:50:02 GMT
I feel like this should clear up a lot that was mentioned here, though it likely won't. Yeah, good luck with that. Think it or another video was posted and people said it was cgi or something like that.
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