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ello, and welcome to the weaponry section of the Dragon's Breath Forge web page. First I want to alert any of you who are under the age of 18 that I cannot sell any weapon of any kind to you.  If you are interested in something, have your parent or guardian buy it.  Now that that is over with, those of you who have been here before, I want to alert you to a few new additions to the variety of weapons available on the web site. I have just recently added a wootz section, which includes a couple of knives that I have produced in the past year from this legendary material.  In the sword section of the page you will find my vision of what a more rustic bladesman might have carried back in the good old days along with a truly vicious damascus seax that you might enjoy. I say "the good old days" for the simple reason that I have been told by many people, including my family members, that I was born several centuries too late. If I didn't know as much as I do about the widespread disease and otherwise generally unpleasant life that most folks lead back in the Middle Ages, I might be inclined to agree. Another good reason not to live in the Middle Ages can be found on the Axes page. As if the axes themselves wouldn't be enough of a deterrent in battle, I have now added a spiked flail to the page with other items to follow soon. Other items in this case will mean more flails, maces, and probably a war hammer or two. I have also added an Armor section to the website, which at this point is mostly made up helmets and shields, but that will change with time.  Anyway, enough of my blather.

Enough is enough, I finally said. I need to put some actual ironwork onto the web page before everyone starts thinking that I am a barbarian. But then I said to myself, "Peter, my friend, you are a barbarian, although perhaps a little more genteel than good ole Conan." Of course, there is always that saying, "Variety is the spice of life" which my high school Spanish teacher was prone to spout at us. I guess you can thank him for the fact that there is now a totally separate section of the web site for ironwork. I guess this was my way of keeping my split personalities separated so they would stop squabbling all the time. Now that I have scared most of the sane folks out there in the internet audience, it is time to send you off to the knives section of the website.  By following the link above you will find a good variety of custom knives in a variety of price ranges.

Now for the part that I am sure you have all been waiting for, the swords. This section of the web site came as part of a major revamping a couple of years ago. It isn't that I have never had swords on the web site before, but they had always been tucked away in some obscure corner and displayed in less than exciting ways. Now, though, they can all be found together in their very own display area, although I have yet to figure out a way for customers to virtually test their virtual swords on virtual slaves. I guess that is something I will have to leave up to the folks at Nintendo.

Well, how about a little wootz to go with your damascus?  It looks almost the same, but it tastes entirely different…what, you never nibble on your knives?  Anyway, follow this link to reach this newest section of the website.  I have actually been working on developing my own technique for making wootz for several years now, but I have been a bit slow to get to the point of acceptable final products.  Once I had such products, it took me even longer to get these pictures put up on the site.  Also, if you are interested, you can visit a separate page that I wrote up which gives an overview of the history and making of wootz.

Axes of the type seen above bring to mind images of screaming hordes of Viking warriors descending on some sleepy little coastal hamlet in the middle of the night. If you imagine yourself as one of those sleepy little hamlet dwellers facing up against a veritable giant wielding a wicked looking axe in each hand, then you will probably come to appreciate the horror that these weapons have wreaked throughout history. Battle axes have two main advantages if used properly: they are great for chopping through anything, including armor, and they are really, really scary looking. There is often a certain gracefulness and beauty about them, but it is never quite able to hide the grim efficiency that is the basis of the weapon. Another grim and efficient weapon that you will find here is my personal version of the spiked flail. I am sure that you will enjoy it. Click on the picture above to reach what is perhaps my favorite addition to my web page, the Hall of Axes.

I have been wanting to try my hand at some armor work almost since the first moment that I began blacksmithing…no, wait a minute, I got into blacksmithing partly because I wanted to try to make armor.  Yes, that sounds more like it.  Anyway, the variety isn’t that great so far, but I can guarantee that the stuff you will find in my armor section is entirely different than anything else you will see on the market.  Unlike most of the armor that you will find out there, this was made by me right here in the USA rather than in India or Pakistan by a bunch of guys making next to nothing.  I won’t tell you that my stuff is better, since those guys over on the sub-continent know what they are doing (for the most part), but I can guarantee that each of my pieces is one of a kind.  Let the folks at Museum Replicas tell you that one.

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