Warborn Blades
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House code LW-0628
Wallace Smatchet
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage borne
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A piece of the house stock, 15.5″ as stated, fitted with g10.
About this piece
Wallace Smatchet is a piece of kit carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of piece of kits. It measures 15.5in 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 D2. 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
- 15.5 inches
- Form
- gear
- Steel
- D2
- Fittings
- G10
$1,064.99
The Muster is met — the house bears the carriage on this vow.
No document is ever asked of you here. Every parcel is sent adult-signature required — an adult signs at the door before any steel is handed over. The Founder’s reason is shown to you before you buy.
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 — D2
Stainless steel. Chromium in the alloy resists rust rather than defeating it. It is forgiving of neglect and slightly stubborn on the stone — sharpen it patiently and it repays 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. Wallace Smatchet is 15.5″ of d2, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 252 hertz — bright 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
Hardened steel — D2. This is the modern end of the trade: alloys that hold an edge far past the point where old steel gives up, at the cost of being stubborn on the stone. Sharpen it rarely, sharpen it properly.
03The Carry
At 15.5 inches this is a belt piece with presence. It will be seen. Most of what a blade this size does in the world is deterrence, and deterrence only works when it is visible.
04The Reckoning
Steel keeps no loyalty. It does what the arm does. The ledger ends where your part of it begins.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Wallace Smatchet
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
Stainless Steel Hunter W/Nylon SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for reach held out in front of thee, to meet a man before he arrives.
$189.99the pair — $1,254.98
The dark
Breeden Zephyr Neck KnifeSame fittings, other work. It answers for something small and quiet, carried where no one looks for it.
$674.99the pair — $1,739.98
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.
Wallace Smatchet
$1,064.99