"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle".
NB we have raised our prices for the first time since our inception as of February 2018 to reflect our higher foundry charges.
It is with an increasingly peaceful resolve that I feel obligated to announce, Jacob’s Armoury is no longer producing finished swords…
As many of you know, I have been living with Parkinson’s for more than 11 years now. The condition has over those years, taken the hands and body of this once proud craftsman and rendered him more a book than a tool. The last five months have pretty much been about putting off making the official announcement and although I continue to work with my neurologist and nurses to fine-tune my treatment and meds it doesn’t appear likely that there will be another smallsword from these hands in the foreseeable future.
I cannot express what an honor it is to have been a part of this renaissance in smallsword that we have enjoyed these past four years thanks to trailblazers like Phillip Crowley and Victor Markland, and I am blessed that my work has brought me the acquaintance and friendship of artists and scholars like Tom Rockwell, Tod Glenn, Walter Triplette, Scott Wright, Benjamin Bowles and others. Many thanks to my clients from LA to Helsinki and to those who have advocated my work and helped me with development and marketing David Kevin Smith, Lee Morrisroe and dear friends Mike and SJ Redgate.
Rest assured that this is by no means the end of Jacob’s Armoury, but merely a reshuffling of priorities. I will be shifting the focus of my website from finished weapons to sword parts and I will continue my pursuit for a practical colichemarde blade.
With regard to the preservation of procedures and techniques that I have developed over this short career I am very keen to share information so that these things will not be lost. To that end I would like to invite anyone who is interested to come out and help me document these things and perhaps compile them into some useful format for future use. Oh yea, and we can go to the beach too.
NB we have raised our prices for the first time since our inception as of February 2018 to reflect our higher foundry charges.
It is with an increasingly peaceful resolve that I feel obligated to announce, Jacob’s Armoury is no longer producing finished swords…
As many of you know, I have been living with Parkinson’s for more than 11 years now. The condition has over those years, taken the hands and body of this once proud craftsman and rendered him more a book than a tool. The last five months have pretty much been about putting off making the official announcement and although I continue to work with my neurologist and nurses to fine-tune my treatment and meds it doesn’t appear likely that there will be another smallsword from these hands in the foreseeable future.
I cannot express what an honor it is to have been a part of this renaissance in smallsword that we have enjoyed these past four years thanks to trailblazers like Phillip Crowley and Victor Markland, and I am blessed that my work has brought me the acquaintance and friendship of artists and scholars like Tom Rockwell, Tod Glenn, Walter Triplette, Scott Wright, Benjamin Bowles and others. Many thanks to my clients from LA to Helsinki and to those who have advocated my work and helped me with development and marketing David Kevin Smith, Lee Morrisroe and dear friends Mike and SJ Redgate.
Rest assured that this is by no means the end of Jacob’s Armoury, but merely a reshuffling of priorities. I will be shifting the focus of my website from finished weapons to sword parts and I will continue my pursuit for a practical colichemarde blade.
With regard to the preservation of procedures and techniques that I have developed over this short career I am very keen to share information so that these things will not be lost. To that end I would like to invite anyone who is interested to come out and help me document these things and perhaps compile them into some useful format for future use. Oh yea, and we can go to the beach too.
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