The Parazonium

[Kineas]

This is a brief article on re-building a Windless Steelcrafts Parazonium into a usable piece of kit. Let me start by commenting on what a worthlesse, badly made piece of crap it is out of the box. Windless should be ashamed of themselves.

This is the advertising photo.



This is the quality of wood in the hilt



The hilt is painted with a metal primer (???) and then with layers of a dark varnish. Yikes.

But best of all (Windless calls this a "battle-ready blade")

high carbon steel blade with hardwood and steel grip

The grip is, in fact, a very light wood--something of the consistency of basswood. Here's the tang...



I didn't break that--that's the tang as it came, under the basswood grip. Don't use this even to open a can, folks...