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I liked that sword.

Fuck.

It is inevitable that a sword will break if you use it, but that doesn't make anything suck less.

I suppose there are a couple of things I can do, at least. If I could get the tools, I could file the shoulders on the blade and handle back a bit and make a new thread, or do something else to re-fit the pommel. But as it stands I lack the tools, expertise and time to do such a thing.

Replacement blades are sold for Hanwei's Side Swords as far as I know, but that's still expensive, and poses yet another problem; That blade is far from what it is provided as. I spent a good amount of time re-working the blade to try and remove the normal satin finish and put an ultra-sharp edge on it, which it does in fact have. So just getting a new blade would still put me back before square one.

Edit: Turns out I was mistaken, they don't.

Burgh.