Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-1064
Stage Combat Sabre
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
A piece of the house stock, 40.8″ as stated, fitted with 5 1/2".
About this piece
Stage Combat Sabre is a sparring piece carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of blunt sparring steel. It measures 40.8in 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 34 1/4". 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: 5 1/2". 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.
“Sharpened for the field, the block, and the long walk home.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 40.8 inches
- Form
- sparring
- Steel
- 34 1/4"
- Fittings
- 5 1/2"
$174.99
The Muster — swear $125.01 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 Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for hard use — one piece of steel, no joint to fail, nothing to fold shut.
The lineage of its steel — 34 1/4"
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 worker of the outdoors
One who trusts a sheath over a pocket, and wants an edge that will never close on a wet hand.
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. Stage Combat Sabre is 40.8″ of 34 1/4", and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 104 hertz — low and long, true. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
A blade that does not fold is a blade that does not fail. The fixed knife is the plainest promise steel can make: full tang, no hinge, nothing between your hand and the edge but the handle you chose. It is the pattern that outlasts its owner and gets handed down without ceremony.
02The Making
Steel: 34 1/4". The house states what the forge stated and nothing more. We do not embroider metallurgy.
03The Carry
At 40.8 inches this is a two-hand or full-arm proposition. It does not ride on a belt through a doorway. It is mounted, cased, or carried openly, and carrying it openly is a statement in every jurisdiction on earth. Know your law before it leaves the wall.
04The Reckoning
The house makes no claim about what this piece will do in your hand. It only records what its pattern has already done in others'.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Stage Combat Sabre
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it bites shallow. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang an edge that finishes what this one starts.
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 press
Steel StagSame fittings, other work. It answers for a working length for the close work, when the line has already broken.
$109.99the pair — $284.98
The dark
Steel Stag Field DressSame fittings, other work. It answers for something small and quiet, carried where no one looks for it.
$109.99the pair — $284.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Sparring Ground →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- Types of Swords: Every Major Pattern, and Which One to BuyKatana, longsword, rapier, sabre, claymore — what separates them, what each is honestly for, and which belongs in your hands.
- 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.
- The Oakeshott typologyHow swords are actually classified, type by type.
- Tangs and fittingsThe hidden steel that decides whether a hilt holds.
- 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.
Stage Combat Sabre
$174.99