Recently Completed Custom Katana – Fully Wrapped Genuine Rayskin Saya

Exceptional work, extraordinarily pleased. The work was even quick, too, and he made everything about the process easy and straightforward. Extremely transparent Smith and amazing quality.

I'm seeking advice for what type of sword I should get as a sidearm to my halberd. My kit is a jumbled mix of fantasy viking and landsknecht. While I like my mace, I'd much prefer a sword at my hip, I'm just not sure what type of sword I should look for

It's perfect. It's so beautiful. It's everything I crave in a sword, except for that it's out of stock and out of production as of years ago.

Does anyone make one just like it, or extremely similar?

Things I love about it:

-diamond blade profile

-stylistic guard/pommel with no crosses (I have a bad history with Christian religions)

-fishtail pommel

-blade taper (looks just pointy enough for my tastes, but I could be convinced to go for something a bit less tapered)

-blade length over 36" (ya boy likes em long)

-just barely on the heavier side of 2½lbs

-straight edges on the profile taper (curved profile tapers don't do it for me)

It's just so good. So suave. If nothing else, let this post be a love letter to a gorgeous sword that I wish I wish with all my heart they would send back into production.

My first sword

I am the chosen one

Now I can master beast breathing

Falcata Ibera 206 de Gladius

These are from the wallace collection in London. As I understand it, this would be a dedicated duelling sword and the unsharpened area is ideal for half swording. See some stuff like this in Fiore.

But what is the whole for?

Hey there

I got a cupon from a family member to buy myself a sword. Around 200$, the rest I will pay myself.

My hesitation is between 2 kind of swords :

1) a decorative sword, from the witcher or the litch king (wacraft) i could hang up on the wall.

2) Or I was hesitating with a a federachwert to train my skills with a blade,

3) Or even buy a zweihander sword that could be decorative & used for training like a federachwert.

Now, not every sword has the same purpose or budget. What would be your recommendations for a decorative /cheaper sword, and for a more useful/ practical sword ?

Some of my preferences inputs :

- Decorative sword : is cheap, nostalgia, but is fragile and may become junk in a few years because of poor build.

- Training sword : robust, you can train with, can be decorative, very nice overall, but quite expensive too for a good one, cheaper can be good but less decorative.

- Zweihander : Probably a robust sword, maybe less practical because it's a nice piece(too afraid to damage it?), but can be used for practice. Is decorative by itself, holds history. Quite expensive.

I would love to get a zweihander, but it seems overkill for a first sword ?

Hellooo,

I recently bought what really looks like a sidesword, but the previous owner had no info on it.

Do someone see something that could help ? I'm no expert but I'd like to know a bit more about it :D

Thanks,

Me

https://a.co/d/0iOnNI7k

Do you think I can swing this around without it breaking and shattering into a million pieces and flying into my carotid artery? I wish I could afford a sweet piece of steel but I can’t so this will give me a chance to swing something around as long as it’s safe I guess that’s the most important thing

Hello everyone! I picked up this dagger blade hiltless, unsharpened, and fairly rusted two years ago and I work on restoring/maintaining it now and then. I’ve gotten this far sharpening, de-rusting and giving it a crude hilt, but I just can’t get all the rust off.

What should I do to get this even cleaner before I oil it up and call it finished? I really just want to have something functional as an Apple peeler or something practical.

((Apologies for the amateur work so far, I’m completely inexperienced with blade cleaning and hilt making))

Does anyone know where I can get a left handed or ambidextrous sword with a complex hilt without breaking the bank

Back in october 2025, I asked Mateusz Sulowski to make me a version of my favorite longsword; the Brescia Spadona.

He quoted me on a finished product in late october/early november 2026.

Today he sent pictures on the finished blade. Scabbard and grip is being done soon.

The only main difference I requested from the usual recreation is that the pommel is antiqued/blackened. Him being a professonial and me a dumbass, I forgot to also tell him the crossguard also being antiqued/blackened.

He offered making a new crossguard pro bono, but it would be delayed to the end of the year. I dont really care about it tbh so I told him to keep the current one since it looks good.

Dont want to get into cost since he's self employed and every piece is individually made and specific to requests, but even with a scabbard (which you can customize ofcourse) it was cheaper than I thought.

These are from blade of the immortal and I doubt they are copyright. I have found some people on Etsy but I want someone who I can like really trust, thank you

Hi r/swords,

​I am looking for a physical copy or PDF of the following out-of-print monograph:

​Title: Swordsmith Suishinshi Masahide and His School

​Authors: Yasu Kizu / W.M. Hawley

​ISBN: 0-910704-19-8

​If anyone has a copy to sell or a digital scan (specifically looking for Hyōshinshi Hideyo / Tamura Gunpei), please let me know.

​TIA!