Hey all,
For anybody in the Seattle area who is into this stuff we spend so much time reading about here, there is a brick -and-mortar store that carries a good selection of Darksword, Hanwei, and Cold Steel merchandise. The shop is called Vulcan Knife Works, it is in Ballard at 2419 NW Market Street, has been there for a year or so but has grown a great deal since I first stumbled onto it several months back. They carry the above-mentioned manufacturers (fair bit of armour as well as the sharp pointy stuff), and also forge some impressive blades themselves. The staff are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the WMA hobby as well.

Yes, this is something of a plug (I did ask their permission to "out" them on the myArmoury forums), but theirs is a pretty unique shop here in the Puget Sound area and I wouldn't mind seeing them stick around. Worth a look if you're ever in Ballard picking up lutefisk or visiting the Leif Erickson statue...

- Eric

Great place to get your knives sharpened, too.

Awesome! I had no idea we had anything nearby aside from the Excalibur Cutlery store in Bellvue, and I stopped going there after I grew out of my wall-hanger phase. I'll be sure to check it out.
Thanks for the heads up!

I wonder, is there any other retail store like Kult of Athena, that stocks the entire spectrum from wallhangers to high end stuff?

An old page from archive.org.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110202192659/htt...works.com/

An old article
http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/2010/10/12/...ea-ballard

Cheers

GC