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Main => The Armoury => Topic started by: Mike W. on 2014-07-14, 21:48:23
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A friend of mine works as a performer at Medieval Madness in Alexandria. Today he posted a picture of his unbreakable Badger Blade.
(http://i.imgur.com/SWmrrNg.jpg)
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Why did they say it was unbreakable? For story sake?
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Yikes! :o
Ask your friend to contact Badger Blades regarding their warranty (http://www.badgerblades.com/warranty.htm).
Why did they say it was unbreakable? For story sake?
We are handcrafters of fully functional, combat ready swords, knives, daggers and various implements of destruction. All of our weapons are warranteed for the life of the smith against breakage of the blade, not because they are weak and we hope you don't break it, because they are the toughest blades you can buy for the money we charge.
Our blades have been used to chop apart old cars, engine blocks, bowling balls, appliances, concrete, trees, tire rims and just about anything else you can imagine including live steel stage combat.
We consider this to be normal use of our weapons. If you were to damage it, or break it during the course of these types of activities we will repair or replace it for the life of the smith free of charge.
For specific details please see our warranty.
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Yikes! I know exactly how sword-breaks occur in HEMA with normal HEMA gear, but Badger swords are seriously overbuilt (as their warranty indicates). How did this happen?
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Holy cow!
It sounds like they're designed to take quite a bit of abuse. In that case, there is only one explanation for its breakage. He was obviously fighting someone who was armed with a katana. ::)
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He was obviously fighting someone who was armed with a katana. ::)
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My guess is that it was made a bit too hard and didn't have enough give.
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Eh, we've seen the swordfights at MM when we had our gathering a few months back; any sword is going to fail eventually when bashed edge to edge against similarly hard implements.
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Eh, we've seen the swordfights at MM when we had our gathering a few months back; any sword is going to fail eventually when bashed edge to edge against similarly hard implements.
The odd thing about the MM duels is they are effecting all of their cuts from Pflug thus not generating any powerful cuts, especially to warrant a broken blade. Methinks the blade was defective. ;)
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That's been known to happen. ;)
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Badger Blade sits and bangs a sword against a small anvil to drum up sales. You know, like they did historically...
I'd say it should definitely be warrantied. I think it's more of the "if it breaks we have a warranty" rather than "you can't break it", or as mentioned, the katana-fu would be running wild trying to disprove them. ;)
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Yeah, unbreakable "under predefined use conditions" or something similar. I have a rondel dagger made by badger and it feels pretty indestructible even without that warranty, so I can only imagine something made from the start to be indestructible.
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You know, I overlooked it, but... did he say it was actually broken in combat at MM? Or was he busy hacking at steel drums?
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Either his pride broke it, or it was a bad sword.
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You know, I overlooked it, but... did he say it was actually broken in combat at MM? Or was he busy hacking at steel drums?
We talked to one of their guys at Longpoint. It was in use during practice, and the end flung off, leaving the dude standing there staring at his now significantly shorter weapon.