uLike blade designs

Thanks! I've been thinking of a scabbard, if I can figure out the minimal required dimensions so the sword sits snug but you're still able to actually draw it... all it needs is some extra room on the inside of the curve, but it takes a bit of work to find out how much and where, exactly. Dunno about the colors yet, but I'm leaning towards a matching blue scabbard with some black and teal details...

Or maybe a layered leather wrap, blue leather on top with decorative cutouts showing black leather beneath... or something, dunno. I'd like to stick to iron for the metal furniture, though, just to tie the whole together. I have ideas, but nothing has quite clicked yet.

Here are two lupine Nordic-inspired fantasy designs for Direwolf_22 from this thread, Dire Wolf and Wolfsong.
















Both have a 39" blade, roughly 2.75" wide at the base, and an 8" grip (excluding the bolsters).

Here's something I could actually see Cold Steel making: a short tactical xiphos. Right up their alley, right?





Well, I say xiphos, but only the blade and sheath really fit that, the hilt is far more gladius-like. I tried a more Greek style cylindrical pommel at first, but couldn't get it to look good, so I went with the slightly truncated sphere you see here, instead. I took a lot of inspiration from my Kizlyar knives, and there's a bit of Smatchet in there, too. The thing ended up being a modern amalgam of several Classical Mediterranean cultures and sword types - a modern classic, if you will.







Overall length: 495mm (19.5")
Grip length: 85mm (3.3")
Blade length: 350mm (13.8")
Blade width: 56mm (2.2") at the guard, 44mm (1.7") at the widest point of the edged part
Blade thickness: 8mm (.31") at the guard, 6mm (.24") at the end of the fuller

The sheath, grip and pommel are all kydex. The whole is held together by a special partially recessed nut, with a cylindrical body and a slightly decorative hexagonal head so you can turn it with any old wrench or such (they seem easier to come by than allen keys), like this:





Should also add some nastiness to pommel strikes, I reckon.

Overall, this is another small but by no means light thing, handy for up close hacking, slashing and stabbing - just the way Spartans would have liked it. The point is deliberately not very pointy, I wanted to keep it quite sturdy and at the distances you'd use this thing you don't really need a more acute tip to shove it all the way up a man's ribcage...

I think this would go real nice with a riot shield. Bring on the living dead!

And since I seem to be having leaf-blades on my mind lately, here's another take on the subject more in the spirit of Italian Renaissance, inspired in part by several short Type XVIII I've seen with large disk or clamshell pommels and a cutout in the forte to facilitate fingering the guard.





Overall length: 673mm (26.5")
Grip length: 84mm (3.3")
Blade length: 525mm (20.7")
Blade width: 56mm (2.2") at the guard, 50mm (2") at the widest point of the edged part
Blade thickness: 8mm (.31") at the guard, 6mm (.24") at the end of the hexagonal section

This one's a fair bit longer than the tactical xiphos, though otherwise very similar, since I wanted to use one of those super wide (60mm, or 2.4") and relatively thin disk pommels with lots of space for fancy inlays. The scabbard is relatively simple in comparison, just a regular old wood-cored thing with a narrow tied belt and some risers, but I think the gilded rivet heads and the gold inlay on the chape should echo the hilt decoration enough to tie the whole together, stylistically speaking.

THIS is bloody awesome.

From the fantasy redesign thread again, a remake of Sting as an Elven seax.

Thanks, and feel free! I post to share.

This is the Lion's Tail, sort of a thematic sibling to the Lion's Paw some way upthread - imposing and handsome but not overly ornate.







It's a fairly large sword at 97cm long overall. The blade is 80cm long and 6cm wide at the guard (and again at the start of the back edge, after narrowing down to 4.5cm around the middle).

The recurved crossguard is 16cm wide with beveled inside curves and cylindrical finials with small triskelions inlaid in gold on their top and bottom faces. The 9.3cm grip is partially wrapped with twisted gold wire. The wheel pommel is 6cm wide and 4.2cm thick, hollow ground but still fairly massive to balance the heavy blade; the peen block is correspondingly large.

The general idea I was going for was a mixture of features and influences from Italian fachions and Arabic shamshir and kilij. I'm not quite 100% happy with the design, but don't really know how to improve it at the moment and, in any case, I think I've managed to incorporate a good number of recognizable elements from both cultures I was aiming at.