COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Small Business Week wrapped up on Saturday. One local small business that 11 News talked to had an exciting and honorable project they’re taking on for the Air Force Academy… forging the Cadets’ sabers.
“Our sister company, Excalibur Outdoors, which operates in the same facility here, we make Air Force Academy sabers,” Kilroy’s Workshop founder, Ron Hardman, said. “We just contracted with that this last year, and we’re starting to ship those things out now. It’s been a huge deal for the shop. We had done maintenance on the Sabers for years, and honestly, the quality was pretty bad. A lot of problems with the production quality on there; Handles were actually coming, snapped off, and still shipped that way. It’s been something else. Just seeing some of those things go on, and it got to the point where we were just like, why aren’t we doing those right here?”
Hardman says he wants the sabers to be worthy of a legacy…