Get your hands on a real, usable one, and you’ll feel instantly transported to a different time. A cooler time. You’ll find swords of some style in nearly every old martial culture around the world, and we take inspiration from them all.
Swords are some of my favorite pieces to design and build, but they do take a lot of thought, planning and work. First off, we design each one to be a 100% usable. That alone requires an attention to detail that just wouldn’t be necessary if they were intended for display only. One of the trickiest things to get right is the weight and balance. A sword obviously has a much longer blade than a regular knife, and yet they need to balance in a similar way. The goal is for the sword to feel light and fast in the hand without compromising strength. You don’t want to wear yourself out just trying to counterbalance the blade’s weight. We believe the edge is what should deal the primary damage, not blunt force trauma.