@Peytron, I reviewed Deckard's Horadric Cube conversation, and you're right - the socketed long sword recipe isn't in the list of recipes. I'll investigate further later. But first, another update: Vinca was level 48 when she defeated Andy, and then I traded her gear for magic-find stuff and proceeded to keep revisiting the bottom of the catacombs under the monastery.
She had an okay map at first, with which Vinca could teleport to Andy and finish a run every two minutes. (By happy accident, I accidentally hit the wrong difficulty and had to reroll her NM map, but that turned out to be an improvement: she occasionally had runs as short as 90 seconds, and the new map also featured a reliable mana shrine just before the last downward stairway.) I saved and GoMuled each and every set and unique that she found. At first, she sported MF+195%, but as the running progressed, Andy kept dropping nice improvements: Nagelrings, a Tal Rasha's Fine Spun Cloth mesh belt (and later a Goldwrap heavy belt), Chance Guards chain gloves, an ethereal rare armor with two sockets, Tancred's boots and amulet, and a Blade of Ali Baba tulwar, as well as a couple of MF jewels to put in it. Hundreds of runs later, Vinca reached level 58. Her MF had grown to +415%, and her ethereal armor was close to being destroyed.
Anyway, my intention for these NM Andy runs was to see if I could find a Stone of Jordan, to use in one of the rare upgrade recipes. Vinca found 770 S/U items during her several hundred runs. 52 of those were rings: 12 Angelic Halos, 28 Cathan's Seals, 7 Manald Heals, five Nagelrings, but still no Stones of Jordan. So that I don't burn out with grinding out several hundred more runs, I'm inclined to continue on to the rest of NM for now.
But before I move on to NM act 2, I did complete one more recipe:
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Progress: 88 recipes checked off, 29 left to go