Beautiful sword, absolute treat to have hanging on my wall. Yes I have also been in the garden and shouted to the birds You Shall Not Pass!! Fly you fools!! then I smote their ruin upon my couch with a nerdy grin on my face as I watched the movies again. Serious value for money. Cannot see a reason to by one form united cutlery at 11 times the price this more than does the job. Andrew generally answers emails and was helpful in the purchase process. I love you can see it is hand made (individual hammer blows can be seen faintly in the highly polished sword blade). Seriously for 39 quid...wow.