Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0622
Chop House
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
A fitting of the armory, 18.3″ as stated, fitted with g10.
About this piece
Chop House is a piece of kit carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of piece of kits. It measures 18.3in overall as stated by the forge, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is 9260. Carbon and tool steels take a finer edge and take it faster, and they will rust if left wet. Wipe the blade dry and keep a film of oil on it and it will outlast you.
Fittings and furniture: G10. The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“What holds a blade when no hand does.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 18.3 inches
- Form
- gear
- Steel
- 9260
- Fittings
- G10
$269.99
The Muster — swear $30.01 more and the house bears the carriage. Otherwise it is $16.00 flat, however much steel rides. Walk the halls
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for the keeping of steel — what holds a blade when no hand does.
The lineage of its steel — 9260
High-carbon steel. The old, honest choice. It takes a keener edge than stainless and holds it under work, but it will rust if it is left wet. Oil it, and it will outlive you.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The keeper
One who has learned that a blade is lost to storage more often than to use.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. Chop House is 18.3″ of 9260, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 217 hertz — deep and steady, true. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
No chronicle records the belt that carried the sword. This one does, briefly, because a piece unheld is a piece lost.
02The Making
Carbon steel — 9260. It will take an edge finer than any stainless and hold it through work that would roll a lesser blade. It will also rust if you look at it wrong. Carbon is a bargain: the house gives you the better edge and you give it your attention. Oil it, dry it, and it will outlive you.
03The Carry
At 18.3 inches this sits between the arm and the field — too long to be discreet, too short to need both hands. It is the awkward, dangerous middle that historically belonged to men on horseback and men in doorways.
04The Reckoning
This is not decoration that happens to be sharp. It is a sharp thing that happens to be beautiful. Keep the order of those words.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Chop House
The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The line
Green/Black Rubberized Machete with SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for reach held out in front of thee, to meet a man before he arrives.
$79.99the pair — $349.98
The dark
Breeden Zephyr Neck KnifeSame fittings, other work. It answers for something small and quiet, carried where no one looks for it.
$174.99the pair — $444.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Stores →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- How to Clean a Sword: Step by Step in 10 MinutesTen minutes of care is the difference between an heirloom and a rusted disappointment.
- Keeping an Edge: Sharpening, Stropping and StorageHow to keep steel keen without ruining it — the whole discipline in one reading.
- The Law of Carry: What You Must Know Before Buying Edged ArmsThe house sells steel. It does not sell exemptions from your local law.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- Geometry, balance and harmonicsWhy two blades of the same weight feel nothing alike in the hand.
- Buying honestlyThe questions that separate a wall-hanger from an heirloom.
- Rust, patina and oilKeeping carbon steel alive, and the difference between stain and rot.
- Testing and proofHow a blade is honestly proven before it is trusted.
Chop House
$269.99