Here we will attempt to answer any questions you may have about the site, our models and our weapons. We'll even help you in choosing knives, swords and edged weapons to add to your own collection. We will also have a weapons care, maintenance and philosophy page you may wish to check into as well as the obligatory Legal page.

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Now I'm sure most of you would like to know how we came up with the name for this site. Well, we're glad you asked...

     Starting about 10 years ago, I was out at the local renaissance festival by name of Scarborough Faire out in Waxahachie, Texas. For those of you who have never been fortunate enough to attend one of these events, you've really been missing out. The pretext is that you are enjoying the local Spring Festival in Scarborough, England sometime around the 16th century. It is populated with actors, artisans and colorful local folk (our new favorite is a beggar that will whack himself on the head with a frying pan once for every quarter you throw in his hat...now THAT'S entertainment!). Just after I had spent some time at a booth run by a group called Angel Sword (who, by the way, produces some of the most beautiful blades you have ever seen) I turned and saw a young lady walking by wearing a chain mail bikini (!) and I thought that if someone would take several pictures of gals wearing outfits like this, they could sell them as a Medieval style Sport Illustrated Swim Suit Calendar and call it "Chicks in Chain Mail". Catchy, huh? Anyhow, this was not meant to be. First of all, the outfits could cost up to $750 (ouch). Then there was the problem of where to sell the calendars and the target buyers, I would have to start traveling around to the other Renaissance Festivals around the country and I'm not big on living the nomadic lifestyle. And the final nail was driven in when I looked on the shelves of a local bookstore and found that someone had jumped in and started writing a series of books by that same title. (Check them out, they're fun.)

     So sadly, I had to put that project away for a while, but I never totally forgot it. Then about three years ago I started thinking. I have been collecting swords and knives for a while now and thought it would be fun to display them on a web site. I also thought that people would like to check out the weapons even more if there were several beautiful women displaying them. Now, what sort of title could I use? It had to to be clever and catchy. Hmmm... "Women and Weapons"? No, too formal. "Dames and Daggers"? Nope, still not right. "Bitches and Blades"? No, no, NO! Wrong image altogether... but wait a minute... what about 'Babes"? That was it!

Babes with Blades!

It was short, catchy and fun. That day a new idea was born and the rest all began falling into place almost on its own. As for that gal in the chain mail bikini, I never did see her again out there at Scarborough Faire, but I'd like to thank her for helping start something that may have taken a while longer to come about than I would have liked, but we here think you will agree that it was worth the wait!

  The Great Misunderstanding...

Now since this is America, everyone is entitled to have their own opinion, and that's a good thing. It's when that opinion is based on misconception and is then forced upon others that it starts trouble.

     All of this started several weeks before we were about to publish our site. We had been working so hard on learning how to use the tools to build the site that we (I) came to the astonished observation that we had forgotten to start getting pictures from our photo sessions completed so we would have something to show on our pages. Kind of like building a store and then remembering to have something to sell in it. So we quickly put together a brochure outlining a presentation that we would put on the following weekend to explain what our site was about for potential models to sign up with us. Our Production Manager said that there were over a dozen ladies in an organization she belonged to that would probably like to pose for us and we had already discussed this project with them earlier and that they had seemed agreeable  and even eager to join up. We had passed out the brochures to them at an evening meeting of this group and then waited for them to give us a call to confirm for our presentation.

However, that was not meant to be.

     That Wednesday evening she returned from a meeting with her group and informed us that we were in trouble with them! It seems that one of the brochures was displayed to the couple that runs this organization and a few misunderstandings took place. All that week they had been handing out a memo and speaking to the members of this group and told that they took a dim view of someone (us) urging their members to pose for a site that was concerned with "kinky (s&m) sex" and that anyone who did so would be asked to end their association with that group.

NOW HOLD ON JUST ONE BLASTED MINUTE! 

     To start with, if these allegations were true, then I would definitely uphold their convictions and reasoning. However, this site never was and never will be about sex and it was even outlined in the brochure and on our site's "under construction" page. We pointed out that if this was a porn site, that we should all be making a great pile of money from it instead of having to keep tossing our own money at it just to keep it going. We knew that we had to take care of this misunderstanding immediately so we sent a letter to the couple apologizing for any misunderstandings caused on our part, explained what the site would be about and even asked them to attend our presentation. After not hearing anything from them, we (I again) worked up my courage and gave them a call. I was informed that no matter what I said that it would make no difference, their minds were made up and they were calling it as they saw it.

     If I wasn't angry before, I was now. These were people that our Production Manager had known for over 10 years and that I knew for over three. We thought we knew them as friends. Well, I guess you can be wrong about anyone. The final straw came the following Wednesday night when our Production Manager came back way too early from her evening meeting with this group and informed us that her association with them had been terminated. Needless to say, no one called or showed up for the presentation and that hurt all of us here a lot.

     So here we are, due to an unfortunate misunderstanding, a person who did no wrong was tried and convicted of pandering pornography and kicked out of a group that she spent almost one quarter of her life working with and the friends that she made there seem to have been forbidden to be in contact with her. Not to mention that to the thirty odd people in that group, their families and friends, yours truly is now branded as a pornographer and worse, a "kinky (s&m) sex" pornographer and even worse than that, one who will probably never make a dime out of this site because he's never going to be showing any sex, kinky or otherwise.

     Well like I once said, "When life gives you lemonade, it's probably time to open a tire shop." (Don't ask me what it means, it's Zen Philosophy.) We decided not take the easy way out and close the site before it even had a chance to open, instead we are going to channel all of this negative energy back around and use it to work even harder at making this site succeed. Someone one said, "The greatest revenge is to be successful" and we intend to have our "revenge" on all of those who have closed minds and also have a lot of fun bringing you this site.

Let's all enjoy it together.