Welcome to the August 2006 edition of the Sword Buyers Digest.

You might notice that this months edition is a little shorter than my previous newsletters, but don't worry - it's ALL in the members lounge!

For those of you who have been with me for a while now, you'll already know that 80% of all the good stuff - such as the interviews, sword games, bonus reviews, gift vouchers and competitions - have been there in the lounge from the beginning.

So I thought - why not shift it ALL there!?

Makes sense right - especially because the members lounge is a much clearer format than the digest. So from now on, the Digest will be reduced to more or less the link and password to the latest edition of the lounge - plus a general site news kind of thingy at the start (like this!).

Naturally, if this bothers anyone or if you have any good suggestions, I am more than open to hearing your ideas.

In the meantime though, as I am fond of saying, I'll see ya in the lounge - it's a beauty this month.

We've got an in-depth and exclusive interview with Dave Di Pietro from Windlass Steelcrafts/MRL, a ridiculously low special price on a cool Windlass Long sword from AoV, the usual mix of competitions and free stuff, plus my review of a somewhat controversial sword training book by an arguably slightly deranged sword enthusiast (and in case you are wondering, no it's NOT me..! hehe) and that's just for starters...!

The password is (imaginatively): Windlass (it's case sensitive so please type the 'W' with a capital).