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.
Jordan h. –
first real mace i have bought shipping was fast, did some miner stress testing with the Gothic mace on some cardboard boxes, water bottles and jugs, nothing has not gotten lose, but doing miner stress testing i do not know what its limits are but i love this mace the price is fair.
Matt H. –
Good looking Mace; Could be stronger It’s an elegant looking piece, but I couldn’t recommend it for any truely heavy duty use or actual combat. A moderate blow to a standing rotting pallet caused the head to outright bend. Whether or not this was misuse isn’t necessarily clear, but one would think that something this solid and steely wouldn’t have to be used with the same constraints one would have with a sword, as weapons like these were deployed against hard and the like. Anyways, striking a few times after flipping the mace around buckled the head back to an almost true position as it was out of the box, somewhat remedying the bend.
Judging from other reviews on similar products from other companies, the bending seems to be a common issue, certainly not limited to Cold Steels interpretation of this weapon.
I think the best way is to ditch the softer 1055 steel and fabricate it from a 9260 Spring Steel, with a hollow shaft that has a fiberglass splint reinforcement running down the shaft and across the inner diameter.
TL;DR – It bends just like all the others, there’s a reason Cold Steel doesn’t have a video up of them using it.
Ojangles –
For the price it’s definitely a good mace, I’ve had mine for awhile and every time I get rid of old stuff in my house I always break it down with this mace first before throwing it in the dumpster and it’s still holding up, my only issue is it’s not exactly historically accurate and the spike at the top is extremely dull but honestly you arnt really going to be using the spike anyway.