Kaotikross!
There were people at the knife show who said they were reading this forum thread, and they handled them, but they haven't said anything. :[ The person who started this thread in the first place did come and visit my shop a couple weeks after he posted it, but has flaked on coming by again to see the latest stuff, and never wrote a response to this thread. Now I'm down to the two time-lapse swords left (and a couple beaters and the wakizashi)! A few folks out there in the world own my hammer-forged grade 5 "stairwell defender" swords, and a handful more have knives. There are a lot of people around my workshop who have seen the whole circus, including drunkenly hacking up whatever is handy with the swords: wood, plastic car ramps, garbage cans. Quality control, ya know!