Warborn BladesThe Commons
Everything else in this house is priced. This is not. Bring steel you already own — bought, inherited, or found in a dead man's attic — and the house will read it, write its upkeep, size you for it, and keep the record. And if you would rather forge your own than buy ours, Forge Wisdom teaches the whole craft: the fire, the steels, the heat treatment, and the recipes. No coin. No purchase, now or ever.
The Upkeep Writ
Upkeep is arithmetic and old craft, not opinion, so no reader is consulted here — nothing you type leaves your own machine. Tell the house what the piece is and where it lives, and it will write the schedule and say what each interval rests on. If you forged it yourself, the making is taught next door in Forge Wisdom. Bound by house law WB-GOV-024.
The writ
Burden 93/100Kept as you describe — carbon / high-carbon steel, hung open on a wall, in temperate, indoors air — this piece wants oiling about every 42 days and a proper look every 28. Keep to that and it will outlive you. Miss a season and you will not lose it; miss a year and you will.
The duties · 3
- Every 42 days
Wipe clean of fingerprints, then a thin film of oil on every bare surface.
Why: Reckoned from the metal, the air where you keep it, how it is stored, and how often it is touched — your air is kind to steel, so the interval lengthens.
- Every 28 days
Look it over in good light: hinges of rust, dark freckles, any bloom at the guard and under fittings.
Why: Rust is cheap to stop on the first day and dear on the thirtieth. The looking costs nothing.
- Every 182 days
Feed the leather sparingly — a light conditioner worked in by hand, wiped back off.
Why: Leather dries and cracks in dry air and molds in wet. Over-feeding is as bad as neglect.
The next calls
- 2026-10-13Look it over in good light: hinges of rust, dark freckles, any bloom at the guard and under fittings.
- 2026-10-27Wipe clean of fingerprints, then a thin film of oil on every bare surface.
- 2026-11-10Look it over in good light: hinges of rust, dark freckles, any bloom at the guard and under fittings.
- 2026-12-08Wipe clean of fingerprints, then a thin film of oil on every bare surface.
- 2026-12-08Look it over in good light: hinges of rust, dark freckles, any bloom at the guard and under fittings.
- 2027-01-19Wipe clean of fingerprints, then a thin film of oil on every bare surface.
- 2027-03-16Feed the leather sparingly — a light conditioner worked in by hand, wiped back off.
- 2027-09-14Feed the leather sparingly — a light conditioner worked in by hand, wiped back off.
What the house refused to claim
- This writ is upkeep only. It is not a valuation, not an authentication, and not a repair instruction — the house does not tell a stranger to take tools to their own piece.
Upkeep only. No valuation, no authentication, no repair instruction. Held to house law WB-GOV-024.
Where the upkeep ends
A writ is worth having a piece to keep. These stand in the hall today, with their steel named plainly.
Clear Acrylic Stand
$29.00
Steel, as forged
Black Abs Folder Non Assisted
$29.00
Stainless Steel Blade
Black/Blue Mingled Tactical Folder
$29.00
Steel, as forged
Because when you see that dragon,
you know it’s strong and solid.
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