Sometimes a mass produced stock item just won’t do. Occasionally people who are very serious about HEMA decide they would like a high end item that is custom made to their specifications. The following is a list of several vendors who can take special orders.
Vendors will be added periodically to this list.
Castille Armory
An Oregon US based company known for producing high-end training weapons for SCA and Historical martial arts combat. Their Economy Line model training weapons are popular. Their website has a form to make custom orders for rapier, long swords, cutlasses, sabres, messers, backswords and even SCA katana a fairly straight forward process.
Visit www.castillearmory.com to browse their inventory.
Cedarlore Forge
David DelaGardelle hand-forges swords in the Northern mythopoetic tradition.
Visit https://cedarloreforge.com/
Bladesmith Fabrice Cognot
who produces reproductions of historical swords. Visit https://www.historicalbladesmith.com/
VB Workshop
Founded by Viktor Berbekucz out of Hungary, this forgery specializes in production of training weapons for historical European martial artists as well as for Burhurt (Historical medieval combat battles) and re-enactments.
Visit www.swordsviktor.com to place an order.
Darksword Armory
Produces of mid-tier quality museum replicas and some fantasy inspired weaponry.
Visit https://www.darksword-armory.com/ to view their wares.
Regenyei Armory
Started by Peter Regenyei this Hungarian company has become a popular federschwert manufacturer and also produces high end custom swords.
Visit www.regenyei.com for the catalog.
Castle Keep
Rob Miller produces a mixture of fantasy and historical themed swords and knives.
Visit https://www.castlekeep.co.uk/robmiller/
Art of Sword Making
A forge owned by Maciej Kopciuch in Poland. Specializing in high end historical reproductions and scabbards.
Visit http://artofswordmaking.com/
Lonely Wolf Forge
Wes Beem has been featured as a sword smith on the History Channel television show Forged in Fire: Knife or Death.
Visit https://www.lonelywolfforge.com/
Dragon’s Breath Forge
Jamie Lundell and Matthew Parkinson own this forge and have also been featured on the television series Forged in Fire.
Visit dragonsbreathforge.com
Tinker Swords
Michael Tinker is a well known smith who has partnered in the past with Hanwei to produce lines of swords but he also forges custom work.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/Tinkerswords/
Peter Johnsson
This swordsmith specializes in museum quality replicas and has provided the measurements for many of Albion’s models.
Visit http://www.peterjohnsson.com/
James G. Elmslie
This weapon smith produces many kinds of historically accurate works.
Visit www.elmslie.co.uk
Yeshua’s Sword
A forge known for the elaborately detailed scabbard work he does.
Visit http://www.yeshuas-sword.com/index.html
DBK Custom Swords
Known for beautiful medieval scabbard work that can be made for Albion swords but also produces original swords themselves and does detail work on stock Albion blades, too.
Visit http://www.dbkcustomswords.com/
Fable Blades
Swords forged by Brendan Olszowy marketed as ‘heirloom quality’ pieces.
Sword and Stone
Swordsmith Tony Swatton has been featured on the first several seasons of the popular web series. Man at Arms.
Visit www.swordandstone.com
Baltimore Knife and Sword Company
A team of swordsmiths that have been featured on Man at Arms: Reforged web series.
Visit http://imakeswords.com/index.htm
Paladin Forge
Based in Las Vegas, Nevada this shop primarily does custom hilting of existing blades produced by other smiths.
Visit http://www.paladinforge.com/index.html
Valiant Armory
Known for producing high end swords with matching detailed scabbards.
Visit https://www.valiant-armoury.com/
Gael Fabre
France based smith producing historically based swords.
Macdonald Armouries
Forge owned by Paul Macdonald based in the UK. Produces historical reproduction swords and armour.
Visit http://www.macdonaldarms.com/armoury/services.php
Historical Sword Zone
Damien Sulowski produces high end historical swords and takes commissions. Shop is based in Poland.
Visit http://historicalswordszone.com/
Pavel Moc Swordmaker
Czechia (Czech Republic) based smith of high end swords, and produces blunts and feders for HEMA usage.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/PavelMocSwords/
Sulowski Swords
Poland based Mateusz Sulowski produces historically accurate swords and scabbards.
Visit http://sulowskiswords.com/
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