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Lists the cities of the last 100 visitors to this page.
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Here are the
Events & Shows
where we will
have a presence, our products will be
available,
and we'll be able to answer your questions.
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31-OCT-2008
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
I received a new order from Iron Fortress, and it included a set of coreless
Throwing Knifes.
These look great and are an excellent size if you want to carry more than one.
Stay tuned, I'll have a surprise for everyone in about a month: can you say "Rapier"?
:)
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10-OCT-2008
Finally got the website updated with the new
Star Shuriken from
Calimacil.
I also tightened up the Calimacil page a bit since we have so many of these superb products.
Last week the very last of the Ex-Caliber products was sold, and it was with great
sadness that I removed the Ex-Caliber line from the website.
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03-OCT-2008
We have received two new products and two revised products. The coolest new product is the
Captain's Deep sword from
Calimacil.
Equally cool in a different way is the
Basic Heater Shield
from EagleFlex.
This is a simple heater shield with a steel rim and a plain black faceplate. It
can be used as is, or you can easily customize it in any way you deem appropriate!
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26-SEP-2008
Today we welcome a new LARP in the New England area called
Sidereus to the family
of live action groups that have officially approved the use of our products.
Sidereus has sanctioned - and recommends - the use of the Calimacil, EagleFlex,
Forgotten Dreams, and Iron Fortress product lines of latex/foam LARP weapons
for use in their gaming environment!
By the way, the image on their home page is way cool! :)
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05-SEP-2008
We have a new product line: Iron Fortress! All of their products look great,
and they have some of the best looking - and longest - staffs I've ever seen.
We've got three new staffs, a new Naginata, three new daggers, new short swords, some
wicked cool new Axes, and a couple of new longswords!
Note that their blades are a bit thicker
than the Forgotten Dreams blades, and a bit thinner than the EagleFlex
blades - all in all they are very cool, superb looking, very safe LARP weapons!
Iron Fortress
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14-AUG-2008
My last order of Forgotten Dreams products arrived yesterday: the back-orders
have been filled and the inventory has been updated. I also brought in a few
new products from the
Imperial Collection
and from the
SwordMasters Collection
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22-JUL-2008
An evil fiend, I mean friend, of mine sent me a link to a FANTASTIC
on-line comic called "Girl Genius". I opened it up. That pretty much
took up my ENTIRE evening! Check it out:
The comic is in the Steampunk tradition, and both the art and the story
are incredibly entertaining! I've also added a banner link in the FUN STUFF section
on the Link page.
Enjoy!
On a personal note, today is my 19th wedding anniversary to THE MOST WONDERFUL
woman on Earth. This is a day of joy and celebration for both my wife and me!
Trust me....you CAN get a marraige right, and when it is right it is the BEST
thing in the world!
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10-JUL-2008
I have two large orders out, one with Calimacil and one with Forgotten
Dreams, and they should both be shipped by the end of July. Tack on a
week for the Calimacil order to arrive, and two weeks for the Forgotten
Dreams order to clear Customs and my inventory levels should be back to
normal.
I've also got an order out with my EagleFlex supplier...they're going
to send me what they have in stock, and the remainder will arrive in 4 to 6
weeks. *Sigh*
Meanwhile, I would very much like to welcome the folks at
Dying Kingdoms
as they have recently started using the Calimacil line of products! Best of luck
with their LARP and best wishes for many exciting and fun adventures!
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09-JUN-2008
At long last we can offer you a staff; we call ours the
Wizard's Combat Staff. With an overall length of 48 inches (121 cm),
this staff is lightweight, durable, and extremely safe. Oh, and let's not
forget that this is a Calimacil product so it is simply GORGEOUS!
The Wizard's Combat Staff is listed at the bottom of the Calimacil page.
This staff was designed at our request and in cooperation with Knighthawk Armoury,
so we can safely say that it is our baby! We specified that they be made with
the hybrid core so that they can safely be used in full contact combat. In addition,
we focused on keeping the cost of the product as low as possible - you will be surprised
and most pleased at the relatively low cost of this staff! Enjoy!
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05-JUN-2008
A-Kon 19 was held this last weekend, and it was a raging success for us.
As a result we are low or out
of a number of the items we normally carry in stock. But fear not, O Intrepid One...
orders have been placed with Calimacil, EagleFlex, and Forgotten Dreams! We should
be getting in replacement stock for about half of our items in two weeks or less; the
rest of the stock will take three to six weeks to arrive.
The new
Chaos
line of swords turned out to be VERY popular. There's just something
about those gleaming black blades....
By the way, our website has been modified to link to the various product pages
of the shopping cart without the return path being specified. Along with the
changes made by the shopping cart
(see news item dated 29-MAY-2008 below) this
should completely resolve any issues with using Internet Explorer v6
to view our website.
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30-MAY-2008
One of our observant and very helpful customers emailed me to say that he
had found some of the Forgotten Dreams products we offer elsewhere at a
lower price. To which my response was "SAY WHAT?!?!?!" :O
Knighthawk Armoury PRIDES itself on offering THE lowest prices on the products
we offer, so I checked it out. It turns out that in most cases, the so-called
"lower" prices did not include shipping, and when you factored in the shipping
costs, our prices WERE lower. In a few instances, though, my friend was right.
So I went through ALL of our Forgotten Dreams items and lowered the prices. Then
I went back again and ensured that our prices were lower than those offered by
our competition!
THANK YOU to our friend that pointed this out!
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27-MAY-2008
UPDATE on 05-JUN-2008:
This issue has been completely resolved; see the above entry for details...
UPDATE on 29-MAY-2008:
The Shopping Cart software has been updated in such a way that I no longer need to have the
return path specified on my links to the various product pages! This means as soon as I
get the website updated with the new product page links, this problem will be history!
Original Issue With IEv6:
If you are using Internet Explorer, version 6 as your browser, and you try to click on
a product page from the "group" page with all of the thumbnails, in most cases
you will NOT be able to get to the product page.
The work-around for this is as follows
Click on the product page link
When the "The page cannot be found" error occurs, stay on that page
Go to the address bar across the top and delete everything after
"/exact_match=exact/"
Hit the "Enter" key
You should now be on the product page
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. We are working with the Shopping Cart
people to get this resolved as soon as possible. These links work perfectly
with IEv7, FireFox, and with every other browser of which we are aware.
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24-MAY-2008
The shopping cart we use is hosted and run by a third party: King Cart. The King Cart
website experienced a catastrophic disk failure yesterday which took their site out
completely. That's why you could get into our site - Knighthawk Armoury - but you
were unable to click onto a product page. ANY product page.
At about 6:20 this evening, the shopping cart seems to be fully restored and all of
our products are now accessible once again.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience during
this outage.
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14-MAY-2008
I have received my first order in from Forgotten Dreams that includes three
new collections:
The Chaos Collection includes the two coolest shields I've ever seen, as well as some fabulous
new swords. The Elven collection includes some spectacular Elven styled blades, including
a Naginata! The Medieval Collection is a matched set of Dagger, Shortsword, and Longsword with
a wonderful design.
Enjoy them all!
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08-MAY-2008
I added a fun widget to the bottom of the Home page and to the top of this
News page. No personal information is collected, but it shows you the city
of the last 100 visitors! It's fun and way cool!
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03-MAR-2008
The Calimacil prices have been updated as required by the factory. Note that most
of the items went up by $10, but the prices on several of the products were actually
LOWERED!
Please notice that items longer than 48" (or 121 cm) are not eligible for free shipping.
This condition was specified because we have some VERY long items coming in with our
next order, including the Forgotten Dreams Naginata. Like shields, the shipping on these
very long items is simply too much for us to absorb.
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15-FEB-2008
I just heard about about
ConQuest America, an
enormous nation-wide, live action roleplaying event open to anyone who wants to play.
There is a rich political system and a relatively simple set of rules for
players; you can read the rules
here.
This year the game site is located at Stonehouse Park in Earlville, Illinois.
Knighthawk Armoury is one of the
approved vendors
for this event.
Calimacil Pricing
Calimacil will be raising their prices at the end of March 2008. Most of the swords will
increase in cost by $10. The real kicker is that in addition to this cost, some of their
less popular models will only be available as a factory order - which means that Calimacil
will not keep these items in stock and will have to manufacture them when I order them.
This will incur an additional 3% fee per item.
The good news - and yes, there is some good news - is that for those items that are not
kept in stock, you will be able to specify the color scheme they want for the
hilt of the weapon. In addition, you will also be able to order the blade in
different colors. The details of these options, like what colors are available and if there
are any fees for these additional options, will be hammered out by 31-MAR-2008.
I'll post all of this information on the
Calimacil FAQ page
once it has been set in stone.
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11-FEB-2008
The Forgotten Dreams Design Studio has
6 new Collections
from which they offer a variety of LARP weapons.
Please remember that Forgotten Dreams is a German company, so the site is in German.
Meanwhile, here are the new categories:
While these products are seriously cool, they are ALL priced in Euros,and the last time I checked the
conversion rate,
€ 1 = $1.47 USD. This means that these guys are going to cost about 50% more than
the standard collection.
To let me know if anyone out there is interested in these items I've added the following polls.
The first poll is to determine how many of you out there that are SERIOUSLY interested in
acquiring at least one of these products The second poll wants to know which of the collections
in which you are interested. The third poll is to let me know WHICH of these items are of interest.
NOTE: If you are seriouisly interested in more than one item, pick the first item then click the
submit button, and repeat for each item in which you are seriously intereted.
Please let me know what you honestly think! And you can always
send me an email to let me know precisely
what you want from the FD Design Studio!
Would you buy from the new Forgotten Dreams collections?
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If so, from which collection would you buy?
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In which item are you interested?
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29-JAN-2008
Happy New Year! We wish everyone a happy, safe, healthy, and prosperous
New Year! May all your dreams come true and may all of you be truly blessed!
Last year was great! We added two new product lines,
EagleFlex and
Calimacil,
which has rounded out our product lines so that we can offer YOU a full range of LARP
weaponry!
Reminder: I've still got a few of the
Ex-Caliber
line of weapons
in stock. These are great products at an excellent price. One they're gone,
they are gone for ever since Ex-Caliber is out of the LARP weapon business.
- so get them while they are still available!
Don't forget your special sweetie on Valentine's Day, which is coming up in
less than a month! And nothing says "I love you" and "BOY do I trust you" in quite
the same way as a new weapon from Knighthawk Armoury! :)
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