Just wanted to announce a little holiday sale:

Take $50 Off the listed price of any in-stock rapier, smallsword, broadsword, cutlass, etc. The sale does not apply to knives. Good through December 12.

Check out all the stuff currently in stock: www.jessebelsky.com/stageswords

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I wonder if your aluminium-bladed swords are sharp or not, Jesse. Anyway, those pirate cutlasses look great.
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Thanks Shahril, I'm glad you like them. Most of that set went off to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, although I do have several aluminum cutlasses still in stock.

All the aluminum-bladed stuff is for stage or film combat. None of it is sharp. Aluminum is very lightweight, and the stuff I use, 7075-T6 is very strong (its the stuff they use in airplanes), but it's not at all hard/durable in terms of edge holding. So you'd never make blade out of Aluminum.

Since it's so light you can make a blade that has a really fat and durable edge, but is still lighter than a steel blade of the same profile.