Grip Band

Here my CS Bushman and my francisca with grip wrap.
I made a bulge on the Bushman grip which improves the handling and makes gripping more secure, the knife still locks in the sheath.

Yeah, I use glue too. 

Thanks for the info. My M1913 feels much better with gloves but I can still feel the corners. I like your photos showing your placements of the sliders, then the final wrap. Still no grip band here, I’m dragging my feet on that one, but have sufficient rescue tape that I like and should be able to find a substitute for the sliders around the house somewhere. I like that sword but find it not well suited for dismounted one-on-one combat, perhaps that may help.

To bring some closure to this; I spent much of the day playing with my M1913 padding about where you did using yours as a model. The difference is that I used three tongue depressors bound with masking tape before attaching to grip with rescue tape. The rescue tape adheres to the original lines better than Grip Band showing off the padding more and squarish, not so pleasing to my eye. Afterwards the sword responded better to dry handling. I also noticed that before on a thrust with blade horizontal unless my thumb was in its recessed area on top of the grip there was about a 15° bend between the axis of blade and my forearm. With the padding that is nearly eliminated and the difference is easily corrected with my wrist and/or it’s easier to put my thumb home during the thrust making everything better. I couldn’t resist and set up the beer can from last night and lopped it in half with a #5 cut with noticeably less muscle than before. I know, it’s a thrusting blade but couldn’t resist it. I can improve on what I did but that’s for another day as I’m about sworded out for today. I consider what I did as the prototype. The padding on top really helped but at the same time the high squared distal end tended to dig into my palm. On the final job I’ll glue those three sticks together then use my belt sander to make a wedge out of them and then rewrap as before. Also am considering breaking the corner on those sticks below. And hit it with matt black spray paint, something I didn’t do on the prototype. Thanks, you have given new life to the sword.

"To be sworded out for today". Goes right into my vocabulary.

I stole this interesting picture of a Spanish 1895 saber grip from scott's WTS thread.
It shows a form similar to that what we both find comfy, just thinner:

My antique Bhojpure and the CS Royal Kukri Machete with a wrap.
The Bhojpure grip was too small for me, better now. 
The Kukri Machete had a little tendency to torque with hacking moves. 
I upholstered the area under the middle finger, torque gone.

Wilson Ultra Wrap Tennis Overgrip (3-Pack), Black www.amazon.com/dp/B00JG95BSM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Pg-tEb5FPZK38

I get mine at Walmart. Usually under 4 bucks.

thanks, I'll give it a try
For my SCA swords I've always used gloves and baseball wrap, so not padded.
It's essentially a cloth tape with glue on one side. Initially kinda sticky, wears smooth and gives decent grip, but not great.
This might be worlds better...I'll report once I give it a spin.