Warborn Blades
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House code LW-0855
Practical Scramasax
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
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A fitting of the armory, 17.8″ as stated, fitted with as fitted.
About this piece
Practical Scramasax is a piece of kit carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of piece of kits. It measures 17.8in 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 12 1/2". Read the steel against the work you mean to give the piece; the forge's own designation is stated here rather than guessed at.
Fittings and furniture: As fitted. 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
- 17.8 inches
- Form
- gear
- Steel
- 12 1/2"
- Fittings
- As fitted
$139.99
The Muster — swear $160.01 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 — 12 1/2"
Blade steel. Whatever alloy an edge is cut from, the same three things decide how it behaves: hardness, geometry, and how it is kept. Learn those and no marketing name will fool you again.
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. Practical Scramasax is 17.8″ of 12 1/2", and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 222 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
Steel: 12 1/2". The house states what the forge stated and nothing more. We do not embroider metallurgy.
03The Carry
At 17.8 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
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 Practical Scramasax
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
Light Gambeson Brown XxlReach the piece in thy hand does not have. Meet him before he closes.
$86.99the pair — $226.98
The dark
Gen.Cobra Skin Coon HuntererCarried when the great steel is put down, or cannot be drawn at all.
$83.99the pair — $223.98
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
- Machete Types Explained: Which Blade Shape Does WhatLatin, bolo, kukri, panga, billhook, cane. Six shapes, six different jobs.
- 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.
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.
Practical Scramasax
$139.99