I'm hearing 2 opinions for JW hotsteel forge aka Paartist86 on ebay. They are a asian forge puting out blades:
You get what you pay for ....
forge works hard to keep the customers happy....
I agree with opinion number one. I competley disagree with Opion #2.
I hear decent things about there blades but they are royally screwing me over.
I paid in full for a blade and gave them specific dimensions. THey took about 6 months to make the sword and mailled it and it was not what I asked for. the blade tapered from 1 1/4 at the habaki down to about 3/4 inch at the kissaki. I specificlly requested no taper. So I said fine and asked the to make me another AND PAID A SECOND TIME in SEPT 2007. I was showm pictures of a forged blade that was supposed to be mine and now 8 months later they wont even return an email. SOme time in Oct 2007 , was the last time they responded to an email. They said they would make the necessary changes to myblade to make it more functionalble. aka change my design specs. I wasn't requesting anything that difficult. just a 27 1/2 inch folded 1 1/4 wide untapered blade with a 2 inch kissaki.
Still 8 months later, I can't even get them to return an email. I have asked for a refund about 3 times. No Response .Yesterday , I even said I would take any one of there folded blades as a replacement. Still no response.
I'll keep you all posted on how tis goes.
You get what you pay for ....
forge works hard to keep the customers happy....
I agree with opinion number one. I competley disagree with Opion #2.
I hear decent things about there blades but they are royally screwing me over.
I paid in full for a blade and gave them specific dimensions. THey took about 6 months to make the sword and mailled it and it was not what I asked for. the blade tapered from 1 1/4 at the habaki down to about 3/4 inch at the kissaki. I specificlly requested no taper. So I said fine and asked the to make me another AND PAID A SECOND TIME in SEPT 2007. I was showm pictures of a forged blade that was supposed to be mine and now 8 months later they wont even return an email. SOme time in Oct 2007 , was the last time they responded to an email. They said they would make the necessary changes to myblade to make it more functionalble. aka change my design specs. I wasn't requesting anything that difficult. just a 27 1/2 inch folded 1 1/4 wide untapered blade with a 2 inch kissaki.
Still 8 months later, I can't even get them to return an email. I have asked for a refund about 3 times. No Response .Yesterday , I even said I would take any one of there folded blades as a replacement. Still no response.
I'll keep you all posted on how tis goes.
