Quote Originally Posted by JRB View Post
As a blade collector I can't stand most of the cheap crappy swords and knives sold at highland games. I guess I can understand it, though. A decent sword starts in the $500.00 range and I'm sure a non-collector at a Scottish festival would rather spent that kind of money on kilts and related items.
Not to detour too far from the wonderful pics on this thread but you made me think of the good quality of the swords for sale at Fergus. I think it was two years ago, somebody can help me here, that the first good vendor showed up. This year, I can't recall any flea market level vendors there.

I think that's a lesson to all the games promoters. Once the better quality vendors are there, they show up the poorer quality sites. I felt it was a better event because of that.