Overview
Our sharpening service will provide a good serviceable edge on the blade. The result is typically “very sharp” with a small secondary bevel and a bit of an “apple seed” profile. The resulting edge is somewhat dependent on the particular blade. Some blades will take and hold sharper edges than others and the thickness of the blade will determine how wide the bevel will need to be. We adjust the angle of the edge to suit the specific blade and attempt to get as close to a bevel-less edge as possible without marring the surface of the blade.
The Sharpening Process
The sharpening service is done with a belt sander. The process involves many passes with sanding belts of various grits. The blades are rested between passes to prevent them from becoming hot and damaging their temper. By default we will sharpen as much of the blade as possible including any false edges if appropriate. If you have a different preference, feel free to make that request in the special instructions at check out. We can sharpen only the last half or third of an edge, for example. Our sword sharpening expert has personally sharpened several thousand swords at this point, so will provide you with a professional service.
What the Service is Not
The resulting edge will be “sword sharp” not razor sharp. Our goal is to provide you with a usable edge for cutting practice that will hold up to some use and not require constant re-sharpening. In other words, we intend to provide you with a serviceable weapon, not a personal grooming implement. The service will not provide a completely bevel-less edge. To create that type of edge will necessarily scratch up the blade surface and we lack the machinery and time to provide a full re-polishing of a blade’s surface. A service of that nature would be significantly more expensive as a great deal more time would be required. We do not offer this type of service at this time.
Disclaimer
We make no guarantee that the resulting edge will meet with your expectations. Every blade is different and some will take and hold a sharper edge than others, due to the blade material, heat treatment or geometry. Some customers can also have incorrect assumptions about sword sharpness and improper expectations as a result. All we can say for sure is that the resulting edge will be sharper than the default edge, in most cases, significantly so. We can not provide any refunds for the service once it has been completed, so consider it to be provided “as is”. That being said, if you are unhappy with the product for any reason, we do still allow you to return the item for a full refund, including the sharpening costs under our normal return policy. This does not apply to special sharpening requests, for example if we sharpen something specially for you that does not normally list that option on our site. The vast majority of our customers are happy with the results of the service, so as long as you keep the above mentioned in mind, we are confident you will be pleased with the results as well.
Thomas –
Disclaimer – Bought this at another seller than KoA, and I’m by no means a sword expert. I use KoA though for all my purchases to get specifications, pictures and any available reviews, since they generally are the best.
I only recently started collecting swords, and I wanted this one primarily for the damascus pattern and overall looks, but also just to have a battle ready viking sword in my collection.
Scabard – looks really nice, and have a good quality, it takes a big effort to draw and sheathe the sword though – more on that later
Sword appearance – Blade looks gorgeous with the damascus pattern very vivid, everything about the handle is also very pleasing to look at.
Functionality – Sword handles like a brick. When considering the PoB and the weight, I was seriously surprised at how unwieldy and heavy this feels. It is as stated in the specification also completely blunt. The handle while very nice looking is not pleasant to grip for a longer period of time, and you hands “smell” metallic afterwards. Finally and to me most distressingly, holding up the sword in fron of my eye and looking down the lenght towards the tip, then there isn’t a single straight line on the sword from the edges on the blade to the grooves. The lines of the sword are very wavy and uneven, which detracts from its functionality and aesthetics. This also makes the friction when drawing the blade from the scabbard very uneven and at a certain point I have to put some strength into it to get the sword to move.
I get the feeling that while I assume this is handmade, it would have been better quality if it had been stamped and the machined.
I don’t know if this is to be expected from a sword from Deepeeka, but it is a bit disappointing.
Conclusion – very nice looking sword with very bad functionality. That KoA describe this as battle ready is in my humble opinion wrong, and when looking at other sites at some they also describe it as a decoration piece.
so how would I rate this
For a battle ready sword – 1/5 stars
for a decoration piece – 4/5 start