Build Your Own Blade

It means choosing the components of an existing Everest Forge pattern before it is forged. You select from defined options for the blade, handle, fittings, sheath and engraving, and your combination is written up as a build sheet for the smith. The pattern itself — the shape and the geometry — stays as designed; what changes is the material and finish specification. It sits between buying a catalogue blade and commissioning something entirely new.

Building your own blade works from a set list of options with the price on screen, so you can order in a few minutes. Our custom forge service takes a design you supply — a drawing, a photograph, a museum reference, a description — and quotes it individually, because dimensions, steel, construction and fittings are all open. Choose this category if you like one of our patterns and want it in your materials. Choose custom forge if the blade you want does not exist yet.

The figure shown as you configure is the price of the blade you have specified, before shipping and any duties or taxes charged by your own country. Every option carries its own price and adds to the running total as you select it, so there are no charges revealed later in the process. The starting figure on the category listing is a base build, and most finished configurations come in above it.

The preview shows your chosen combination accurately in terms of materials, fittings and finish, so you can judge whether a brass bolster suits a rosewood grip before you commit. It is a representation rather than a photograph of your specific blade, which does not exist until we forge it. Hand-forged work also carries small natural variation in grain, figure and finish, so treat the preview as a faithful guide rather than a pixel-exact promise.

Longer than a stock item, because the blade is forged from scratch to your specification rather than picked from a shelf. The lead time is stated on each product page, since a full-length sword with a fitted scabbard takes considerably longer than a small knife. Engraving adds a little more. Once it is complete, DHL or FedEx delivery runs 7-14 business days with tracking.

Yes. Where a pattern supports it, an engraving field appears in the options. Names, dates, regimental details, dedications and short lines of text are all common. The method depends on the surface — a wide sword blade takes an etch well, while a bolster or butt cap is engraved. Bear in mind that an engraved blade is personal to you and cannot be resold, so it falls outside our standard returns window unless the blade itself is faulty.

Functional. Everest Forge does not make wall-hangers. Every blade here is hand-forged from 5160 high-carbon spring steel, oil-quenched, tempered, full tang and sharpened, whichever options you pick. Choosing a polished finish or a decorative handle material changes how a blade looks, not what it can do. Our Battle Ready standard applies to configured blades exactly as it applies to the rest of the catalogue.

5160 is a chromium-alloyed spring steel long used for vehicle leaf springs, which is precisely why Nepali kamis have forged blades from it for generations. It is tough rather than brittle, takes and holds a working edge, and bends before it breaks — the right trade-off for a blade meant to chop and be used rather than sit in a case. It does require care: it is not stainless, so keep it lightly oiled when stored.

The option list is deliberately limited to combinations our smiths can execute to the same standard as everything else we sell, so it will not cover every idea. If what you want falls outside it — a different length, a different steel, a shape we do not offer — send it through custom forge instead. That route has no fixed list and we will tell you honestly whether it is something we can forge well.

We ship worldwide with DHL and FedEx, tracked. Import rules on edged blades vary considerably between countries and sometimes between states or regions within them, covering blade length, locking mechanisms, carry and occasionally the pattern itself. It is the buyer's responsibility to check local law before ordering. If you are unsure about your own jurisdiction, contact us before configuring and we will tell you what we know about shipping there.