Needle has shipped to all International and other remaining customers. It is now fully in stock and available to ship to everyone typically within 1 business day of placing your order.
Depending on your location an International Airmail shipment can take up to around 10 days, so please be patient.
Needle shipped to domestic customers today, you should start receiving it next week. We’ll be emailing tracking numbers out by the weekend.
International orders should go out the second week of January.
Be sure to write a review once you get it.
Happy new year, and stick them with the pointy end.
Needle will start to ship the week after Christmas to domestic people, and the week after that (we hope) for International people.
If you’ve moved or otherwise need an address change and have not yet gotten one, now is the time to tell us. Email us at sales at valyriansteel dot com with your order information to change your address.
Longclaw, by the way, can still be ordered for Christmas delivery, even with ground shipping if you live close to Michigan or close to California (the two places from where it ships) but for everywhere, up until 12/23, with air shipping.
Because we are now in December, we have turned on domestic air shipping for Longclaw. So if you need it quickly, as late as 2 PM Eastern on the 23rd for Christmas delivery, you can order it with this method and have it arrive in time.
Order Longclaw here to get it shipped by air, note, you need to order it from that specific page to be able to access the air shipping option. And this is for domestic orders only. International orders really need to be placed by the second week of December for any chance at Christmas delivery.
Looks like Needle will not be here until like the third week of December, this is going to make it very very hard to get it to customers by Christmas, we’re going to try our best though. For those who bought it as a Christmas gift, our apologies, it should still arrive before new years for domestic orders, and just after the first of the year for International customers.
For Longclaw, here are your Christmas order dates:
Christmas falls on a Friday this year, making the last day for deliveries Thursday the 24th. People on the East Coast should order by Friday the 18th or Thursday the 17th if they use ground shipping. People on the West Coast should order by the 21st, maybe the 22nd.
International customers should give at least one more week to be safe, so please order by the 11th. Canadian customers, being much closer than European customers, could maybe wait a few more days, but that time of year Customs offices are busy and so you should plan on packages taking a little longer than usual.
Couple things…
1. The Damascus Longclaw will be a limited edition of 100 pcs.
2. The damascus is made by taking 1065 and 1045 steel sandwiched together and then folded repeatedly upon itself until it reaches 2,160 layers.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ
This is a preorder, you’re putting a deposit down to secure your place in line, the sword will not ship to you until 2010. You can get a refund at any time up until when it ships, but you will lose your place in line.
We are going to make either 100 or 250 of these, depending on interest as seen in the next week or two. If there is the demand, we’ll make 250, if not, we’ll make 100. We’ll let you know when we decide.
We will be giving numbers based on purchase order. The first person who orders gets number 2, the second person gets number 3, etc. The #1 sword is going up on an auction. I highly recommend buying the sword through our site prior to bidding in the auction, in case you do not win the auction you will still get a sword. If you are the auction winner we can always cancel your original order.
We’ve also put up the original Longclaw, #1, up on auction, if you’re interested. We found it in the massive pile of boxes that is our Longclaw inventory and decided this was the best way to get it out.
Edit: Auctions over, congrats to the winners.
Order the Damascus Longclaw Here
ICE.
So, here is the Ice concept art. Let me stress that this sword is not even close to being released, think late 2010 at the earliest. We have a whole bunch of Longclaws and Needles to sell first. And the Damascus Longclaw will come out before it.
As always, we worked closely with GRRM in creating this design. In fact, as has been true with all our blades, I tend to have a design in my mind and then I go to him and explain it and he tells me how wrong I am. For those who worry that perhaps we influence GRRMs design decisions a certain way, believe me, it doesn’t happen.
So, anyways, for Ice we had a couple thing to consider. First, it was the ceremonial sword of a great house. Both tool of war, and symbolic scepter of power, as such, it is more ornamental than Longclaw is. Secondly, it is of course, big, and GRRM insisted we make it as large as is possible to mass produce. It should be the biggest sword any collector has hanging on their wall. The blade will be as wide as Longclaw’s (itself a large sword) but longer, with less taper.
The blade will have a distressed white leather grip, and a central ring embossed with running wolves plated in genuine silver. We plan to make two concurrent versions, one stainless steel with a faux damascus finish, the other true damascus.
Kit Harrington doesn’t have to be the only person suiting up as Jon Snow this fall, you could be too.
First, you need pants, you could buy these or just wear some black pants you have laying around the house.
You’ll need a jerkin or some other top as well. this one is very dark brown but it matches the style seen in a lot of ASOIAF artwork with Jon Snow, so I grant a pass.
For a more military look consider buying this leather armor and layering it over this black chainmail shirt.
It is cold in the North, you need a fur coat or cloak or something. Any fabric store will have faux black fur, get a couple yards, toss it over your shoulder, and you’re good to go. For something fancier, perhaps for Lord Commander Jon Snow, you can find nicer ones such as this on ebay. If you’re at all crafty you can easily make your own by buying genuine fur on ebay as well. Give it a crude stitch up with leather cord, something Yoren might have made for a new recruit perhaps, and call it good.
Finally, of course, you’ll need a weapon. I recommend Longclaw. You’ll also want a scabbard to slip it into, and a back harness to hold it all in place.
Then of course you’ll need to walk around explaining who you are, and perhaps buddy up with someone with a large white dog. But rest assured, once the HBO series is released and takes the world by storm you’ll be known as the guy who was ahead of the coolness curve.
We had one Longclaw with a slightly bent blade that was returned.
Edit: Sold Out